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How to make sunshine dolls by hand?

The hand-made process of Sunshine Doll is as follows:

1, we can find a white cloth at home, no matter what shape it is.

2. Fill the cloth with cotton and white needle and thread, wrap it around a few times, then sew it and fasten it, just like a doll's head.

Sew the eyes and mouth on the doll's head with a black needle and thread.

4. Wrap the wool into a bundle on your hand and tie it tightly in the middle.

Sew the twined wool on the girl's head from the middle with yellow needle and thread. Take another piece of pink wool and wrap it around the doll's neck.

6. In this way, the sunny doll is finished.

Sunny doll is a kind of puppet hanging on the eaves to pray for sunny days, which is mainly popular in China and Japan. China's sunny dolls are often made into doll images in the form of paper-cutting or cloth heads, with brooms in one hand and lotus-shaped heads cut; In Japan, sunshine dolls mostly wrap table tennis or cotton balls with square handkerchiefs and draw five senses on the balls.

It is said that after this custom spread to Japan, because all the monks in Japan presided over the ceremony of praying for rain and sunshine, the clean mother became this shape! Later, there was a name "Sunshine Doll". The ballad of a doll on a sunny day is similar to our Song of Sweeping the Sunny Mother to Stop the Rain.

Ballad: sunshine doll, sunshine doll, I hope tomorrow will be fine. If so, I will give you a golden bell. Sunshine doll, sunshine doll, I hope it will be fine tomorrow. If so, I'll give you good wine. Sunshine doll, sunshine doll, I hope it will be fine tomorrow. If not, cut off your head.