Multicultural Education Through Miniatures

Multicultural Education through Miniatures includes photos, maps, stories, and games of handmade dolls and puppets from all over the world. This website can increase global awareness for children and adults.

Explore by clicking Select a Photo, See Entire List, or Click a Map. Cultural activities and games are also available (click Go to Activity). Students and teachers can freely use the pictures, stories, and games in school projects. Have fun!

This international doll collection will highlight over 300 handmade miniatures from around the world. Each figure was selected to depict the culture of the native country; most of them are hand crafted by local artisans. Students and teachers throughout the world are welcome to download the photos and information for school reports and projects. Although the originators of the images retain the copyrights to the images on this site, the images may be used by teachers and students in educational settings.

Cornhusk, Silk, and Wishbones : A Book of Dolls From Around the World

Cornhusk, Silk, and Wishbones : A Book of Dolls From Around the World

From School Library Journal
Grade 2-5-This attractive alphabet book presents 26 dolls from 5 continents that were created in a variety of time periods, ranging from 1000 B.C.E. to the present. For each letter, the type of doll appears in boldly colored typeface along with a stunning, full-color photograph. The accompanying paragraph includes a description of the figure, discusses its cultural significance, and provides pronunciations for unfamiliar terms. The text is lively and engaging and imparts solid cultural and historical information in a painless manner. A world map and a page about collecting these objects round out the title. This intriguing look at dolls as a reflection of the civilizations that created them is a good complement to more standard pictorial approaches to the topic, such as Caroline Goodfellow's The Ultimate Doll Book (DK, 1993), and an attractive, informational alphabet book.
Ann Welton, Terminal Park Elementary School, Auburn, WA
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