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Posted: Dec 12 2012 at 10:29pm | IP Logged Quote Jenn Sal
I finally have a child who LOVES Little House on the Prairie! My 5yo dd is showing a recent interest in the stories. I would like some ideas for a Christmas gift. She reminds me of Laura. She is sweet, hard working, likes girly things, but loves to get dirty and play with her brother. Any ideas?

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A bonnet!

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A slate with a slate pencil or her own tin drinking cup.


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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 6:12am | IP Logged Quote SallyT
A rag doll like Charlotte, a stick of old-fashioned striped candy, a penny in the toe of her stocking.

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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 6:13am | IP Logged Quote SallyT
And you can read *all* the Christmas chapters aloud!

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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 7:10am | IP Logged Quote Jenn Sal
MaryM wrote:
A bonnet!


Yes! A bonnet! I've always felt odd that I don't have any colonial dresses (great for All Saint's Day). Does anyone have a favorite site to purchase colonial dresses/bonnets? Many of you may have made your own, but I am not there.

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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 7:11am | IP Logged Quote Jenn Sal
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A slate with a slate pencil or her own tin drinking cup.

I did see a slate and slate pencil. A tin cup is a great idea, too!

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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 7:15am | IP Logged Quote Jenn Sal
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A rag doll like Charlotte, a stick of old-fashioned striped candy, a penny in the toe of her stocking.

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Sally, do you know where I can find a rag doll like Charlotte?

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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 7:16am | IP Logged Quote Jenn Sal
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And you can read *all* the Christmas chapters aloud!

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I am purchasing Christmas in the Big Woods

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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 8:59am | IP Logged Quote mrsgranola
You can find bonnets at Civil War battleground museums shops and the NC History Museum gift shop (downtown Raleigh). Sometime they have rag dolls and other cloth handicrafts, too.

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Okay, I was not much of a girly girl, but I would have been over the moon for something like this

Other than the bonnets, seems like you have to special order at that site but if you google "Prairie dresses and Bonnets" you may find some ready made.
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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 9:33am | IP Logged Quote Christine
Some of my daughters like The Little House Cookbook. It's a little old for your daughter this year, but you might want to remember it in the future.

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mrsgranola wrote:
You can find bonnets at Civil War battleground museums shops and the NC History Museum gift shop (downtown Raleigh). Sometime they have rag dolls and other cloth handicrafts, too.

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I have seen bonnets at Moore's Creek Battlefield and other national park gift shops in NC.

if you could put together a little patchwork sewing kit or even one of those no sew blanket kits, that might be fun, too. Jessica at Shower of Roses recently showed her little boy making his own blanket with the knot tying method. Very easy and cute.

Oh- even a paper patchwork kit is fun- make a grid of squares on paper and cut out fun squares of colored paper to be the quilt. She can design her own quilt and then glue it in place.

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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 9:47am | IP Logged Quote SeaStar
Little House Paper dolls

$10 on Amazon

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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 10:37am | IP Logged Quote MaryM
Another thing we got my daughter when when she was about the same age was a washtub and washboard (and wooden clothes pins).



She had so much fun (and you can get some laundry help out of it )    

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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 3:31pm | IP Logged Quote Jenn Sal
Everyone, thank you for all of these WONDERFUL ideas!    I just know she will love any of these ideas. Thank you!

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Another thing we got my daughter when when she was about the same age was a washtub and washboard (and wooden clothes pins).


Ohh...where did you get that?

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Posted: Dec 13 2012 at 9:23pm | IP Logged Quote SallyT
I'm not a seamstress at all, but I did make both my girls rag dolls out of old cotton tights, old bed sheets . . . they weren't necessarily like Charlotte, but they were handmade rag dolls, and not too horribly hard to make (I just made up the patterns, embroidered the faces freehand, and found clothes to fit them . . . ).

But surely there is a better way.

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Another thing we got my daughter when when she was about the same age was a washtub and washboard (and wooden clothes pins).


Ohh...where did you get that?


I am not positive what we got where as it has been awhile, but I think it was Ace Hardware and a farm supply store. Hardware or farm supply stores are going to be the general kind of places to find them.

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