Drawing faces on peg dolls can be a little tricky. I share four techniques for making faces on peg dolls. Of course you can always skip drawing a face and leave it blank. You can draw on a face with pencil or a fine liner or paint it on with Lyra paints or acrylics.

When it comes to painting the body of your peg doll, you have many choices. Even if you don't have any paint, you can use markers! In this video, I'll show you several ways to paint a peg doll from acrylic paint to watercolor paint. My favorite is Color Shine spray by Heidi Swapp. It was a shimmer quality to it that makes the peg doll sparkle.

The hair you choose for your peg doll is going to help define its look. While all my finger puppets had wool yarn for hair, when it comes to peg dolls, you can skip the yarn and paint on the hair. While that is one technique, there are a few more you can try when working with peg dolls.

In this slow tutorial, I walk you through the basics of knitting so you can knit a hat or beanie for a peg doll. I have three patterns to share with you inspired by the pattern in the book Making Peg Dolls by Margaret Bloom on the Martinmas peg doll tutorial. We have gotten so much inspiration from this book.

Once you learn the basic pattern for a hat, you can alter it to make it bigger, smaller or more pointy. For this project, I used sock, sport and worsted weight. I also altered a pattern I found in the book Making Peg Dolls by Margaret Bloom on the Martinmas peg doll tutorial.

I'm getting better at this tiny little peg dolls, and my girl is loving it! Here are a couple tips: if you are painting in eyes and a mouth, use a thin but slightly firm paint brush, don't use too much water or the paint will spread in the wood grain, and if you make a mistake or you don't like it, just stop, trying to fix it usually makes it worse. If you really don't like it, flip the doll around and make her a new face on the back and cover up the mess-up with hair or a hat.

Aren’t these peg doll necklaces adorable? They would make darling party favors, prizes or little gifts for a special child. They are surprisingly easy to make. All supplies (except ribbon and screw eye) can be found at A Child’s Dream or local craft stores.

Now that our supplies for peg dolls and finger puppets have been replenished and increased, we needed a new way to store and organize them. Enter our new Alex drawer unit from IKEA! I have this drawer in our craft room, and my favorite feature about it is the shallow drawers. You don't have to go digging around for supplies, it's all at your fingertips.

This is a super delightful, easy-to-assemble, playhouse kit for young children. This playhouse is small and adorable and can be assembled by a child in a matter of seconds. But, you'll glean hours of playtime from this charming little house which includes beautiful strips of silk to decorate the two peg dolls as well as bits of wool for hair or decorations.

This is my first peg doll, and I wondered if I should share it because I don't think it turned out all that great. But, I'll keep practicing until I can do them quickly and easily because I know my daughter is eagerly waiting for them!

How much fun am I having in our homeschool!?! When my son assembled a pirate ship from one of our pirate book/kit, he asked me to make some peg doll pirates for it. I most willingly obliged, and it turned into one awesome homeschool day!

Learning the ABC's has never been this adorable! These painted and embellished peg dolls are the perfect addition to any preschool or kindergarten. The large peg dolls are painted with the uppercase letter while the small peg dolls have the lower case letters. They are painted to coordinate to make it easier for new learners to identify the pairs.

I don't know why it took me so long to move our peg doll supplies to the craft room, since that's where we make them! Set up and clean up is so much easier now that the supplies are where I need them. I love opening up the drawer to see everything I need. We did need to move some things around in here, but the added perk is that the craft room is cleaner and there's extra storage space in the school room that is now being used to store felting and other handwork supplies.

Having trouble choosing the right paint for you wood pieces? There are many to choose from and while many peg dolls are painted with acrylic, there are other choices if you wish for the wood grain to show through your final project.

Here's an old video I meant to work into a series and never did. I'm releasing it now as part of my latest blog post that shares many of my peg doll tutorials. Over the years we've made hundreds of peg dolls from simple to educational to complex. My children have also made dozens as well often just painting them to use for their educational or pretend play.

This has to be the cutest way to learn the days of the week. These little peg doll gnomes are easy to make, especially if you don't complicate the process as I did! I'll tell you how I did this project with my daughter, and I'll also tell you some shortcuts you take to make this project faster, but just as cute.

These Months of the Year . We use them with our calendar peg dolls. Each day, the kids replace the day of the week and day of the month peg dolls. And each month and each season they replace another one. It's a fun way to keep track of the days, months and seasons.

Invasion of the mini gnomes has begun! Brace yourself for this cuteness. These 31 calendar mini peg dolls are for our homeschool calendar. These small peg dolls were easy to transform into gnomes. I painted the peg doll with Lyra watercolors and twisted a triangular shaped piece of wool felt into a gnome hat.

These are probably the cutest peg dolls I've ever made! I actually made a complete lunar phase set to last an entire month! Granted it did get a little tedious and some crescents and moons look awfully similar to one another, but we got a complete set!

It's official, it's no longer pumpkin season, it's peg doll season! We've made more peg dolls in the past month than all the peg dolls we've ever made combined. We're on a roll. And now we are adding themed ones to our nature table and having a blast doing it.

These adorable peg dolls represent the seasons. We use them with our calendar peg dolls. Each day, the kids replace the day of the week and day of the month peg dolls. And each month and each season they replace another one.

This is a super cute and fairly easy four seasons mini peg dolls tutorial. We made these super fast and they were easier than the original set of four season peg dolls which you can see on the post.

This is my first attempt at making these peg dolls with arms. I've had these peg dolls in our collection for almost a year before using them. I admit they were a little intimidating at first, but I absolutely love the way this one turned out!

This is my second attempt at making these peg dolls with arms. I've had these peg dolls in our collection for almost a year before using them. I admit they were a little intimidating at first, but I absolutely love the way this one turned out!

This grandma rocks! And she's all stylish too. This peg doll is part of the set we made for our Giant Turnip story. They were my first attempt at making peg dolls with arms, and while it took longer and was more challenging, my kids and I love the way they turned out.

This is my third attempt at making these peg dolls with arms. I've had these peg dolls in our collection for almost a year before using them. I admit they were a little intimidating at first, but I absolutely love the way this one turned out!

It's time for some winter crafts! Do you make peg dolls, finger puppets or anything with felt? Check out this winter collection by A Child's Dream. It's called Winter's Cape and the colors are beautiful for all kinds of fall and winter inspired projects.

Looking for a fast handmade project you can do with your kids? This set is quick, adorable and easy. Make these as party favors, Valentine gifts or as a project with your children. You can omit the wooden heart and put a felt heart instead.

In a last minute moment of inspiration, I turned these darling spring bunting baby peg dolls into magnets. I used super strong magnets, and it worked! I love the versatility of these mini peg dolls. Since the fall, I've had a set of three seasonal peg dolls grace our nature table. Each set has been unique.

This is my first attempt at making animal peg dolls, and I can tell you, I love it!! These adorable ladybugs were inspired by both a similar design in Margaret Bloom's Peg Doll book as well as a mini glass ladybug my sister gave me.

Some peg dolls and fingers puppets end up looking super cute and charming while others look like a nice try. This peg doll is one such project in which all the extra time it took to make something I envisioned turned out pretty mediocre.

Fairy peg dolls are some of our favorite peg dolls, but there's one major challenge when doing these. Because the wings are so prominent and take up so much room, they usually compete with the hair. For that reason, painting on hair is an option.

For our West Africa main lesson block spanning the years 900-1400 and the empires of Mali, Ghana and Songhai, we did several projects, cooked regional recipes and read books. While these peg dolls don’t represent West African tribes of Mali, Songhai and Ghana, they are being included as we added books from other parts of Africa into this unit.

Finding hands-on projects for our unit studies and main lesson blocks brings me so much joy, especially when we can make adorable owl peg dolls like these. They were pretty simple to do, but had their challenges. Making the eyes were too hard for my 8-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son, so after they attempted, I helped them fix it up.

These little sleeping babies in walnut shells are adorable. They'd make charming ornaments, cute table scape decorations or one-of-a-kind party favors. We made them to decorate our Fall Nature Table, but truthfully, they were barely there before being swept away to be played with along with our peg dolls and finger puppets.

If peg dolls weren't cute enough, they go and make these tiny bunting babies! They are adorable no matter how you make them. This set if for our nature table in our homeschool room. They were easy to make and are perfect for using up scraps.

If you're looking for a simple winter inspired peg doll tutorial, this is it! These bunting babies with white painted snowflakes and petite bonnets are fast, easy and super adorable. I made this trio of snowflake babies to accompany our other peg dolls and finger puppets on our winter themed nature table.

This is quick video on how to make Waldorf inspired finger puppet babies to accompany finger puppets. All natural materials are used and can be found at A Child’s Dream.

These cute little babies only take about 4-5 minutes to make. You can find supplies at your local craft store or at A Child’s Dream.

I made this set for my daughter for our Winter Nature Table. While these are winter peg dolls, I found that because of their detail and size, they did not get enjoyed as much as the simpler, more generic dolls and so they were gifted.

Sometimes a set of peg dolls we make inspires another set years later. That's what happened here. We made pirate peg dolls years ago for a homeschool unit study. Now we made another set inspired by that first set

This is how we retell stories with props. My children are helping with the props while I tell the story. We did it three times and set two of the stories to music. The third story is without music. I edited the clips to give them movement, but basically these are unedited stories.