If you’ve never heard of Nazca culture, you probably aren’t working through The Story of the World
the way we are. One of the things I love about home education is learning alongside the children, and history is a fairly weak area for me. So this week was particularly educational for me at least.
I was a bit panicked about the peg doll craft as I’d never heard of Nazca before it came up as this week’s theme, but a bit of research on wikipedia came up with “A large portion of dresses were found portraying birds with speckled bodies, double-headed serpentine figures, and anthropomorphic figures.” So I decided embroidery was the way to go, especially as someone else was already doing weaving 😉
So, a Nazca peg doll.
Materials:
(So that’s a peg doll, some thread, a needle, bit of material and a pipe cleaner in case you aren’t sure.)
Embroidery – I chose to do a two headed serpent. This is the body with head number one.
And a close up of head number two, formed with a chain stitch, body filled in by sewing through the running stitch.
Here’s your finished serpent:
Although other ppl chose to do chain stitch birds instead – rather beautifully it must be said.
Twist a pipecleaner round the peg for arms, cut a neck hole in middle of bit of fabric and dress your doll. Hey presto.
Oh, and here’s a gratuitous cute offspring picture. Because she’s cute.
If you enjoyed this craft, you may also enjoy our Greek peg dolls and Minotaur peg dolls. I’m also hoping to link to other crafts from other participants.
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