Category: Children

The image below shows how to draw a German soldier. This image was originally published in 1909 and shows the general dress for German soldiers…

Drawing styles change from decade to decade, and this how to image on drawing a baseball player shows a style that was very unique to…

The paper doll below is of Mr. Pickwick, a character in Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers. It was published in 1913 and was meant for children…

In the 1980s, I collected cheap, plastic charms, jelly bracelets, and rocks. Today, my youngest child collects expensive junk bought inside surprise bags and large,…

Numerous strange baby devices came out in the early part of the 20th century, and nearly all of them looked like medieval torture devices. It…

The connect the dots below was originally published in 1913. At the time, connect the dots were seldom published in newspapers and they were not…

It was very common in the early 1900s to publish a children’s page in the newspapers and provide drawing lessons, such as the following lesson…

The following Bulgarian peasant paper dolls were originally published in 1914. According to the instruction, children are supposed to glue the image to cardboard (or…

The Christmas children’s story below was originally printed in 1904. For many cycles after old Kris Kringle began to carry gifts at yuletide to little…

While reading through a newspaper published in 1917, we stumbled across this adorable plan and pattern for a wooden baby auto car. [1]