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mary
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Posted: Sept 16 2006 at 4:16pm \| IP Logged

i've looked at godly play, our father's house, etc and can't seem to find a pregnant mary or an elizabeth. does anyone know of a resource?

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Posted: Sept 16 2006 at 5:38pm \| IP Logged

Any Atrium figure that I have ever worked with or seen has been made, not bought. If you are *crafty* you could make one out of wooden parts and pieces bought in a craft store, probably the area where they sell wooden things to paint. You could form the basic figure from dowels and use wooden spheres for their heads, plump the bodies out by wrapping them with batting, attach them to a wooden base so they could stand, paint facial features, find some yarn to glue on as hair, then cover over the "functional" parts with clothing.

Just a *philosophical point* when making Atrium figures: the figures used in parable works are supposed to be 2-dimensional so that they are more *general*, as in "the lesson in the parable applies to all of us."; the figures in the Infancy Narratives are real, historical people, and so are supposed to be 3-dimensional. I'm not certain whether everyone was given this information when they took training, but the trainers I had were clear on this, and to me it makes sense.

Really, I want to encourage you that making the figures you need may not be very difficult and the love that goes into them will certainly go a long way toward making them beautiful.

Peace,
Nancy

mary
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Posted: Sept 19 2006 at 7:18am \| IP Logged

thank you nancy for both the push and the advice regarding general and historical figures. i'm not having luck finding wooden pple to paint which is probably the extent of my 'craftiness.'

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