That little Wanda Petronski from The Hundred Dresses
So Princess of the Universe awoke yesterday to a table full of bright pieces of paper and cardstock, colored pencils, glue sticks, the hot glue gun (she’s only allowed to use it with my supervision), and dainty little card embellishments.
I quickly drew a lady’s head and full dress outline on plain white paper. Then I traced a couple of extras for patterns. I glued her to a pretty piece of heavy paper. Now all of her clothes — dress, skirt and blouse, whatever you can imagine, can be cut from paper and glued on. She can have the fanciest dress ever! The spare patterns were used to cut around and get the “fabric” pieces just right. (Princess of the Universe and I agreed that the paper was our fabric.)
I took out several Victoria magazines and American Girl catalogs for inspiration for our clothes.
Miss Priss spent quite a long time — an hour or so, looking through the magazines, drawing, cutting and pasting. She decided not to use my pattern but made her own.
She really enjoyed this, and I don’t think she’ll forget The Hundred Dresses anytime soon.
Our two dress creations are hanging on the art line in the living room and we’re planning to add more through the week.
I can see this as a wonderful way to make homemade cards of any kind, either buying premade blank cards or making our own.
Lynn
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This is an adorable project! I have never heard of the book, but will be looking for it at the library this week!
How cool is that? My kids were much younger and weren’t moved in this way when we read it.
Heather
Randi, it’s a really sweet little chapter book that has a great message about being kind.
Heather, I can’t see my boys being moved in this way. My daughter just likes anything creative and enjoyed doing what I do, which is fun, so we had fun with this together.
Lynn