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Many schools are still closed due to COVID-19 lockdowns, forcing parents to homeschool their kids, and leaving many children missing their friends and routine. Teachers are another group affected by the changes. Some have had to adjust to taking their classes onlinethrough video callsbut this doesnt achieve the same intimacy as a traditional classroom. In fact, Dutch primary school teacher Miss Ingeborg Meinster-Van der Duin misses her pupils so much that she crafted 23 knitted dolls, representing each one of them.
Meinster-Van der Duin works as a primary school teacher at the Dr. H.Bavinck school in Haarlem, Netherlands. Ever since her school temporarily closed its doors, shes struggled with not being able to see her beloved students every day. It was all up and running that the school closed. It all hit me like this, she says. The children were no longer in school. And I miss them so much.
After coming across a similar knitted doll project on Pinterest, Meinster-Van der Duin decided to create tiny, textile versions of her 23 students. Taking 3-4 each to complete, each cute doll features an impressive amount of detail. Each knitted pupil has been given an outfit, according to their style in real life, and Meinster-Van der Duin has even included glasses, hair bows, and other accessories for some. The dedicated teacher even knitted a doll representing herself!
https://mymodernmet.com/student-knitted-dolls/
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(8,090 posts)idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)MontanaMama
(23,302 posts)niyad
(113,239 posts)Note to self: call the apiary. Get the blade out. Unearth the box of pins. Bottle of wine.
Demovictory9
(32,445 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)It's not easy knitting small things like that.
3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)Heres betting the students will cherish them for a long time.
Celerity
(43,294 posts)catbyte
(34,367 posts)But dolls kind of creep me out anyway so what do I know? Never mind.
niyad
(113,239 posts)MontanaMama
(23,302 posts)I do like their heads...I have a baby head collection...which I guess is creepy in its own way.
niyad
(113,239 posts)iluvtennis
(19,844 posts)TeamPooka
(24,218 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Her students KNOW they're special to her.
colorado_ufo
(5,733 posts)So sweet! And each doll has a smile - happy students.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)elleng
(130,861 posts)My 2 grandsons, different schools/states, miss their kindergarten teachers and friends. Just learned, as school not likely to resume this year, NEXT year well-loved kindergarten teacher of one of them will move up to 1st grade, so she'll meet up with this year's kindergartners! Exciting, but next year, his sister will have a different teacher for kindergarten; hope s/he's as good and nice as THIS one!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)outgrown their babyhood. We also had two grandsons born a month apart and four states apart, fascinating to see them together when they were small, giving clues to who they were by their differences. I'm glad one of yours is guaranteed such a good teacher and of course hope the same for the other. And of course all the happy experiences they should have of school at that age.
StarryNite
(9,442 posts)They are adorable.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Leith
(7,808 posts)Ah, Netherlands. That explains it.
Scandanavian countries do education correctly. Their teachers are top notch and are paid much better than the US.
As colorado_ufo said, it would be great if she gave her students their doll once this ordeal is over.
dmr
(28,347 posts)What a wonderful and caring human being she is. Talented, too