Time For COWBOYS - Huggs and Cuddles, Teddy Bear Paper Dolls

 1984.  HUGGS & CUDDLES Teddy Bear Paper Dolls, Troubador Press, San Francisco.  Miss Cuddles Bear is celebrating GO TEXAN Day.

 Huggs Bear is also celebrating GO TEXAN Day with his snazzy cowboy outfit.

Time For COWBOYS - Professor Wormbog

Howdy.  Professor Wormbog is celebrating GO TEXAN Day.

Happy GO TEXAN Day!

July 04, 1980.  Happy GO TEXAN day to everybody!  Time to put on your cowboy hat & boots and say to everyone you meet, "Howdy pardner".  I saw a lot of cowboys and cowgirls today on Memorial Drive on their way to the campgrounds.  The big parade downtown will be tomorrow morning.  I hope everyone has a good time while they are here in Houston, and drivers remember to be patient on the roads when encountering trail-rider traffic.

Great BALLET Paper Dolls

 1984.  Great BALLET Paper Dolls  To Color and Cut Out by Nancie Swanberg, Troubador Press, San Francisco.  The book has a ballerina and a male ballet dancer with fifteen costumes each.  Here is the male dancer with two of his costumes.

 Kostchei the Wizard in "The Firebird".    The Firebird, a ballet in three scenes.  Choreography by Michel Fokine.  Music by Igor Stravinsky.  The Firebird is based on a Russian folk tale.  While hunting in the woods, Prince Ivan captures the Firebird, but releases her for one of her magic feathers.  Later the prince falls in love with a princess imprisoned in a wizard's enchanted garden.  The wizard tries to kill the Prince.  Ivan's magic feather brings forth the Firebird who kills the evil wizard, setting free the princess.

The Champion Roper in "Rodeo".  RODEO, a ballet in two scenes.  Choreography by Agnes de Mille.  Music by Aaron Copeland.  RODEO is a turn-of-the-century tale about a tomboy cowgirl who wants to be "one of the boys" and at the same time has a crush on the Head Wrangler.  She fails miserably both in her attempts to be a cowboy and in her efforts to attract the wrangler.  At a dance, in a show of great bravado, she wins the love of the extrovert Champion Roper.
 
It's time for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.  The cowboys are heading to Houston and they will camp in Memorial Park.  It is always fun to see all the cowboys and cowgirls, pretty horses and wagons, making their way through the streets of Houston.

Mary Had a Little Lamb . . . and a Turtle too!

 August 11, 1935.  Here's Mary and her little lamb to color and cut out.  Also cut out Mary's new dress and hat.  Follow the instructions to make Mary and her lamb stand on their own feet.  From A. W. Nugent.

August 04, 1935.  A turtle to color and cut out.  My absolute favorite paper dolls and cut-outs come from the A. W. Nugent newspaper page for children.  Enjoy!  Spring will be here soon.

SIAMESE SALLY Doll Cut-Out

February 26, 1922.  "Here is another odd doll to add to your nursery.  She is Siamese Sally.  Cut out along outlines, bend the base carefully, and insert flap A into slot B.  She will then stand."

SALLY by Iris Kramer

February 03, 1929.  SALLY paper doll and her wardrobe by Iris Kramer, age 16, an Aunt Elsie Club member.