The Dollshop Downstairs
Written By Yona Zeldis McDonough
Illustrated by
Heather Maione




Start Date: March 23, 2015
Chapter by chapter discussions, crafts, activities, challenges.

Nurse Doll Picture for Swap

Chapter One:  Meet the Dolls
Photo Challenge:  Make a Doll Bed from a Box

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Chapter Two:  School Days
Photo Challenge:  Have a Tea Party like Trudie, Sophie, and Anna

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Chapter Three: Happy Birthday
Photo Challenge:  The New Doll Dishes--buying, using, etc.

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Chapter Four:  Bad News
Swap:  "...big soft feather beds she (Mama)had when she was a girl in Russia."  Make a soft mattress to exchange with your swap partner.

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Chapter Five:  Pitching In
Photo Challenge:  Your Hittys creating doll pictures to be made into dolls.

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Chapter Six:  Doll Factory
Swap: Nurse Doll Swap.  Must include felt, muslin, brown yarn, white cap, navy blue cape, red and white striped dress and white apron, as told in the book.

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Chapter Seven: The Ones Who Stayed
Photo Challenge:  A Doll Factory

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Chapter Eight:  Gone
Photo Challenge:  
using 3 dolls, (each representing the main characters in that chapter) have Miss McKay (biggest doll), Anna (a smaller doll) and Bernadette Louise (a Hitty) as Anna is having to give Miss McKay her beloved doll.

Photo Challenge:  Show off on a new black and white polka dot dress or a white bakery box of cookies.


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Chapter Nine:  The Letter
Swap:  Make a Notebook like Anna's notebook

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Author's Note: Read and Discuss.  If you have any Madame Alexander Dolls, please feel free to show them!

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