development department N. Nevzorova and T. Usova have delivered master-classes in rag-doll making for fifth-form boys and girls of the Kirillov secondary school.
On the threshold of the Butter Week, children had a chance to make a rag-doll “Warrior”. By tradition, people participated in various amusements, including fist fighting, on Thursday of the Pancake Week. Boys couldn’t take part in such fights; therefore special dolls were made for them. A wooden stick served as a basis for it. They made a head and covered it with a light piece of cloth, then fixed hair made of threads or flax tow. The shirt usually had long sleeves to make fists with the help of small stones. In ancient Russia, boys used such dolls to arrange fist fighting twisting the sticks between the palms.
Fifth-formers enjoyed creating rag-dolls themselves. They also got acquainted with some cultural aspects of the Russian people and with traditional Russian dolls.
