Buddy Class Japanese Doll Making

On Fridays we had Room 14, our buddy class, come over for some Doll Making. On Monday 3 March it was Girls Day in Japan.

The 3rd of March - (by the Solar Calendar) is called "Hina-no-Sekku","Hina-Matsuri" (Doll's
Festival) or "Momo-no-Sekku" (Peach blossom's Festival) which used to be one of the important
seasonal events of ancient China and has now developed into a function symbolic of Japanese arts
and customs and has been in existence in Japan since the Edo Period (17 - 19 centuries).

Merrin School is a multi-cultural School so we decided to celebrate Girls Day by making Japanese Dolls out of wooden clothes pegs, wool and material.

Here's what we came up with....