Munecas de Trapo (Rag Dolls)

This Saturday, it was unusually warm and beautiful outside.  There was a play at 2pm at State Theater downtown that I already got tickets for Mimi and I. 

 

Since this is a beautiful day, we decided to go out for a stroll in the Commons.  We enjoyed the yummy Bim Bim Bon at the Korean restaurant.

 

 

 

Since it is still early, we paid a visit to the event hosted by local Latino Civic Center.  They have weekly workshop for children.  This week, our girls got to make Munecas de Trapo (rag dolls).

 

Stephanie, the girl who organized and facilitated the workshop is a Cornell student from Puerto Rico.  She said as a young girl, the women in the village will teach little girls to make dolls.  Girls learn basic sewing skills from making the dolls.  It is a fun project that actually helps to build very fine motor skills which will be useful when the girls grow up.  The sewing skills quickly cash out the economic value when the girls grow up to to be a “economic contributor” in the village.

 

It was a beautiful story.  We have two “economically dependent” girls, Emma and Jordan, who were about to learn the useful skills.

 

 

In the essence of time, they use glue gun instead of niddle and threads.

 

 

Then you stuff the cotton into the fabric to make the body.

 

 

 

Mimi is now old enough to use the glue gun herself.  She finished her project mostly on her own, from the design until the completion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The finished work.