Today we are traveling to South Africa with Liese. You may know Liese from her popular Doll Tag line of patterns on Liberty Jane and she also designed a line of 18″ dolls for the South African market. You can see more from Liese at www.hatchedinafrica.com and www.dollplaysa.com.
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South Africa is a very diverse and vibrant country at the Southern most tip of Africa. There are so many unique things about our country that it would take days to share it all with you. The best part is that we have so many different cultures all in a country that is a little larger than Texas, USA.
One of the highlights when travelling to South African is the wildlife. We are so fortunate to be able to go drive through game parks where we can see the animals walk and live in the wild.
Today we are going to make a travel and souvenir set for your dolls.
You will need:
- Printable pages with beaded patterns, facts and map – download as a 2 page PDF file.
- Clear tape and glue stick
- Scissors
- Sewing needle with large hole for yarn
- Yarn
- Small safety pin
Bracelets, necklace and bead pin
Beads are a big part of most of the African cultures. We are going to make a necklace and bracelets that look like beadwork. The bead pin is the South African flag.
Map and Book of Facts
If are going to travel you need a guide book and a map. Fold the book according to the photos. Stick down with glue stick to complete your book. (NOTE – the book in the FOLDING photo is the Nutcracker from an earlier project. You are folding a book of South African Facts – the Nutcracker photo is just a GUIDE!)
I hope you enjoyed travelling with me in my beautiful country. The girls in the photos are Annie and Nandi. Annie is an Afrikaans girl and Nandi is Zulu. They are South African Girl Dolls.
*** Thank you so much Liese for sharing your country and its crafts with us! Stop back later this afternoon for a special giveaway from Liese!
Cute! That necklace reminds me of the Massai necklaces (I know, different country). I love the little fact booklet and the map!
That is awesome! I love the little details!
Cool!
I love Nandi! She’s so unique! Great activity, perhaps Australia is next on the Camp map? Please?
Yey for my country 😀
That I s so cool
Cute
Adorable! I just love the bracelets. 🙂
Fantastic, love it!
Awesome!!!
I adore that map! So cute!
@Erin~ An Australian AG Fan- Yes! I don’t live in Australia, but I would love it if they did Australia 😀
~Jaclynn~
This looks nice!
Clever!
cute! Can i make a giraffe in it though?
Liese – Annie and Nandi are both so cute! The South Africa book of facts is so cool and love the jewelry. Thanks. : )
This is awesome! I can’t wait to assemble the little book for our cabin.
This is SO cool!
This reminds me of The Disney Channel Original Movie “The Color of Friendship” Has anyone else seen it? It takes place when their is an appartide in South Africa, and a well off African- American family applies to house a student from another country. Well, it turns out that they get a South African student…but they are shocked when she is white. It is very good. They still show DCOM’s on the weekends and sometimes at 11:00 p.m. on Wednesdays.
Thank you for the craft ideas, the little book and the map. My dolls and I are really looking forward to making the jewellery and learning more about South Africa.
cool
I’m from south Africa!!!! : D