I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter holiday. As my gift to you, from my vintage collection a spool craft for you to make from J&P Clark. Click on the image for a full size to download.
And from my collection of Children's Activities magazine, a bunny paperdoll. It was black and white, so I colored it in, to make it a bit more festive. The artwork was done by Diana Allan and this was found in the February, 1948 issue.
Here are some more paperdolls I have scanned from old issues of "Children's Activities", which is no longer in print. These issues were from the early 1950's. These are from a series of Career Girls. Click on the graphic for a larger image.
We are getting ready to move to a new house, so there is all the work of sorting through things, as they are packed and unpacked. Among my stash I found a huge pile of magazines from the late 1940s and early 1950s calle Children's Activities for Home and School. They were printed on very cheap paper and are literally falling apart now, so I went through them today to pull out my favorite illustrations, craft projects, kid's cooking and paperdolls. Next I plan to scan them and clean them up in a graphic editor and putting them up on Flickr for all to enjoy.
Today I managed to scan and clean up several paperdolls. Here they are for you to enjoy as well.
