Jan. 24, 2008
All's Well That Ends Well
Posted in Clothes Pin Dolls
This week our AO2 trip took us to Tales from Shakespeare. We enjoyed making our clothes pin actors for our play All's Well That Ends Well! We are yet a few players short... mostly boys... Here's our troup!
Clothes Pin Dolls: We saw a video on our podcast from Everyday News and were inspired to make our dolls! We found the wooden clothes pins, pipe cleaner arms, some curley hair, googly eyes, and some scraps of fabric. For hair we used also some DMC thread. Our last gent wears his kingly crown!! We've used mostly hot glue & some white glue. Lately we've added some beads for decoration!!
Ladybug's doll is first with pigtales! Lovebugs's girl has long golden hair. Mama's doll has the flowered dress with a crop hair style. The others are extras :)
We've finally added our handicraft!! During our morning reading Lovebug is working on her knitting. She's not overly thrilled with it but she's doing quite well! We are working on consistency that rounds out in joy!
Grace! ss
** Update: My Hubbie said I should put together a kit to make our clothes pin dolls!!! That sounds fun!! I have it for $10!!! Several picked one up at our HS business fair! Email me if you are interested :)
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Comments
Jan. 29, 2008 - Great Idea
Posted by Cheryl L
I love the idea about making the clothespin dolls for Shakespear!! I have wondered about ways to make the stories more concrete. I thought about making puppets. Callie loves to act out more than anything when she narrates and that would be fun!! Thanks!
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Feb. 6, 2008 - Clothespin Shakespeare Puppets
Posted by FLORAandFAUNA
What a terrific idea! We have made and used paper dolls, but your clothespin characters are so cute! My family would enjoy providing dramatic narrations using these props. ...I guess you know what we're making tomorrow! LOL
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Feb. 8, 2008 - Nice
Posted by Testimony
Great idea!
Karen
www.homeschoolblogger.com/testimony
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Feb. 19, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by lindafay
These are cute and a great way to share Shakespeare!
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Feb. 19, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
Oh, I love this idea! My daughter and I were just studying Mozart's The Magic Flute recently and used various stuffed animals for the characters to act it out. I'd LOVE to make some of these clothespin dolls. Or buy a kit! :-)
Dana, www.alexml.blogspot.com
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Feb. 21, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by homeschoolhelp
This is such a good and creative idea, Stephanie! Congratulations on making it into the CM Carnival. I think a kit for these is a great idea!
Blessings,
Dianne
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Feb. 21, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
We love making clothespin dolls but I have not thought of making caracters from our literature. We just finished Romeo and Juliet...thanks for the great idea!
Leila @Freedom Academy
www.thecookfamilyzoo.blogspot.com
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Mar. 2, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Jimmie
Quite clever! :-) We love crafts! I'd love to hear more about how you do Shakespeare.
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