ÇAKABEY SCHOOLS, TURKEY
Turkish Rag Dolls
Girls usually play with dolls. This game is a very good game. Girls love rag dolls. Girls make clothes for their dolls. They share their dolls. Girls learn how to sew because they sew clothes for their dolls. This doll represents a village girl.
Turkish Spinning Toys
SOU "Georgi Bregov" Pazardzhik, Bulgaria
We invite you to make our traditional spring toy , the Martenitsa. It is connected with our national holiday on March 1st called ‘Baba Marta,’ Grandma March. The toy symbols of Spring are traditionally red and white. They are easy to make. Just look at the photos.
For more than 1,000 years, we in Bulgaria have celebrated our national holiday on March 1st called ‘Baba Marta,’ Grandma March. ‘Mart’ in Bulgarian is the name for the month of March. This holiday symbolizes the coming of spring.
Bulgarians wear a small special ornament made of red and white yarn on this day, called ‘Martenitsa.’ We wear it until March 22, and some people wear it until they see a stork or the first buds of a tree.
Some people like to wear the Martenitsa around their wrists. Sometimes people tie it to the branch of a tree or bush to leave there. You can find the Martenitsas hanging there in the branches as you walk outside.
The belief is that if you wear the Martenitsa, Baba Marta will help you, and spring will come more quickly. People often give a Martenitsa as a gift to a friend or relative.
The Martenitsa became a symbol of peace and love, health and happiness. The white color symbolizes purity and honesty in relationships, and the red color means life, passion, and cordiality in friendship and mutual love.
This special national holiday on March 1st reminds us of the values which the Martenitsa has carried down through the centuries.
And all Bulgarians everywhere wear it as an ornament on this special day, and for three weeks after that, until spring begins.
Bulgarians wear a small special ornament made of red and white yarn on this day, called ‘Martenitsa.’ We wear it until March 22, and some people wear it until they see a stork or the first buds of a tree.
Some people like to wear the Martenitsa around their wrists. Sometimes people tie it to the branch of a tree or bush to leave there. You can find the Martenitsas hanging there in the branches as you walk outside.
The belief is that if you wear the Martenitsa, Baba Marta will help you, and spring will come more quickly. People often give a Martenitsa as a gift to a friend or relative.
The Martenitsa became a symbol of peace and love, health and happiness. The white color symbolizes purity and honesty in relationships, and the red color means life, passion, and cordiality in friendship and mutual love.
This special national holiday on March 1st reminds us of the values which the Martenitsa has carried down through the centuries.
And all Bulgarians everywhere wear it as an ornament on this special day, and for three weeks after that, until spring begins.
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Monastyryshche School 5, Ukraine
When we were on autumn holidays we went to the capital city of Kyiv to visit the National Museum of Toys. Our aim was to learn the history and the diversity of Ukrainian toys. Group 6a presentations are on the page Toy museums
Group 7a created a special website with the result of our research. You can read about the variety of Ukrainian folk toys, their history, origin. There is also an interview and a work shop of Kateryna Volkova, our local doll maker. http://mttetwin.weebly.com/
We also prepared a video instruction how to make the smallest of the Ukrainian folk dolls .
When we visited our local doll maker she told us about the doll called Dytiatko (baby). It's an ancient baby rattle!
While making the head you should put a small poppy head into it. Guess why?
When you take the doll by the braid and shake it, the poppy seeds produce lovely sounds which attract baby's attention.
You can learn more stories on the project site of our group http://mttetwin.weebly.com/dolls-stories.html
While making the head you should put a small poppy head into it. Guess why?
When you take the doll by the braid and shake it, the poppy seeds produce lovely sounds which attract baby's attention.
You can learn more stories on the project site of our group http://mttetwin.weebly.com/dolls-stories.html
The primary school group of 4a prepared the materials of the Ukrainian folk toys made of salt dough
Welsh Toys
Welsh lady
- This was one of our dolls we sent to Australia in our recent card exchange
- It is made from card, felt, straw, Polystyrene, an old t-towel and some lace, paint
- This was made by Megan (14)
Welsh Dragon
- This was the winning entry from our form by a boy called Sam (12)
- It is a dragon –from our national flag.
- It is made from empty toilet rolls, card, empty egg boxes, paint and sticks.
Emblems of Wales
•Some people make daffodils and leeks on St David's Day
•Girls usually wear the flower & boys the leek, but over the years they wear either
•Daffodil –empty kitchen roll, card and egg carton
•Leek- Kitchen roll holder and card
•Some people make daffodils and leeks on St David's Day
•Girls usually wear the flower & boys the leek, but over the years they wear either
•Daffodil –empty kitchen roll, card and egg carton
•Leek- Kitchen roll holder and card
School Craft- island making
- This was the wining island from our form from our School Eisteddfod.
- It is of Skomer island and is made out of Paper Mache
- Harry (12) made this by tracing the island first and then copying it onto a bit of wood
Peg dolls
Peg dolls are a traditional Welsh toy. Dolls were known as 'toy babies' until the 18th century when the word 'doll' - short for Dorothy - first came into use. They were made of clay, wood, rags, bones and even ivory and wax in an attempt to make them as life like as possible. In the 17th and 18th century children played with Dutch dolls called 'Flanders babies'. In America these dolls were called peg dolls although they were not made out of pegs.
During the 19th century the Victorians used to make some of their peg dolls into pedlar dolls adding little trinkets to the finished doll when they could. The tradition of making peg dolls out of wooden clothes pegs comes from a time when people had little money to spend on toys. When toy making stopped during World War II, children would make toys from items they found in and outside their homes.
Let's make a peg doll
You will need:
Peg dolls are a traditional Welsh toy. Dolls were known as 'toy babies' until the 18th century when the word 'doll' - short for Dorothy - first came into use. They were made of clay, wood, rags, bones and even ivory and wax in an attempt to make them as life like as possible. In the 17th and 18th century children played with Dutch dolls called 'Flanders babies'. In America these dolls were called peg dolls although they were not made out of pegs.
During the 19th century the Victorians used to make some of their peg dolls into pedlar dolls adding little trinkets to the finished doll when they could. The tradition of making peg dolls out of wooden clothes pegs comes from a time when people had little money to spend on toys. When toy making stopped during World War II, children would make toys from items they found in and outside their homes.
Let's make a peg doll
You will need:
- A wooden dolly peg
- A pipe cleaner
- Scraps of material and wool
- Scissors, glue, pen
Here is the instruction on making a Welsh dragon:
how-to-make-a-welsh-dragon
how-to-make-a-welsh-dragon
Lubny Specialist School 6
Our pupils investigated the diversity of one of the most ancient and popular toys in Ukraine - the doll called "Motanka or wound doll
One more presentation about the brownie or a good spirit of the house which In Ukraine is called 'domovyk'
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And this presentation will tell about the wistle blower also popular toy in Ukraine
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Pupils of Lubny School prepared a slide show on how they had made one of the most popular national toys - a doll called "motanka"
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Blue Flower Kindergarten, Bucharest
We invite you all to interact with our traditional Romanian toys made on wood spoon.
We hope you'll enjoy and find them useful
All the best,
Friends from Romania.
We hope you'll enjoy and find them useful
All the best,
Friends from Romania.
Georgian national dolls
(Some photos are from the national puppet museum)
It's interesting to know that...
To make dolls in Georgia people used a variety of materials: sticks, pieces of boards, cloth, clay, leaves, stems, buds, pumpkin.
The face of the doll is usually embroidered with colored thread, and the hair was made of wool, corn fibers. The hair and clothes of the dolls can tell a lot about people from different regions of Georgia.
The hair can also indicate the "marital status" of the doll. The "married" doll has the hair placed in two curls, while the "not married" has four braids.
Have a look at this Georgian girl in the picture. She seems to be not married yet :-)
The face of the doll is usually embroidered with colored thread, and the hair was made of wool, corn fibers. The hair and clothes of the dolls can tell a lot about people from different regions of Georgia.
The hair can also indicate the "marital status" of the doll. The "married" doll has the hair placed in two curls, while the "not married" has four braids.
Have a look at this Georgian girl in the picture. She seems to be not married yet :-)
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Azerbaijan national dolls
One of the Azerbaijan toys is the doll in national costume. These dolls are very colorful as Azerbaijan is rich in culture and this can be seen in the range of traditional Azerbaijani dress. National costume consists of under and outer garments and clothes for the upper and lower body. The underclothes include dizlik (trousers or an underskirt) and koynek (a shirt), while the outer garments are shalvar (two tapered trouser legs with a triangular gore inserted into the groin seam) and tuman (several skirts worn on top of one another), qofta (a tunic-like blouse) and arkhaliq (a tunic or shirt). In cold weather bahari or kulaja were worn over the arkhaliq with an eshmak, kurdu (woman´s sleeveless jacket, usually padded or fur-lined), or kurk (sheepskin coat) on top. The outfit was finished off with a headdress and footwear.
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How to make an Azerbaijan National Doll from an ordinary doll
The other toy is Jirtdan. Jirtdan is one of the most popular and beloved fairy tale hero. Jirtdan, means “tiny” in Azerbaijani. He is much smaller than other children of his age but he is very brave and intelligent.
Armenian national dolls
How to make an Armenian national doll
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