For several weeks i looked at the snowdrops in my garden. They are the first harbinger of spring in my garden, often popping up and then getting buried again in a snow drift, only to reappear, totally happy, a few weeks later after a March melt! I thought they might make really sweet peg dolls.

I picked the girl peg doll to use as their body. I painted the body of the peg green and the hair white with non-toxic watercolors. They I sealed the peg dolls with beeswax polish. Finally I added their faces with watercolor markers.

The three petals were cut from white wool felt and sewed onto a little circle of green felt. Then I glued the petal cap to the peg doll’s head. And yes, they do look like snowdrops!

By the time I decided to make the snowdrop peg dolls, the crocuses were up too, so I decided to make a little cluster of 3 crocuses.

I chose small boy pegs to be the bodies of the crocuses. I prepared them exactly as those of the snowdrops but used a darker green watercolor for their bodies. I picked the darkest yellow for their hair, but in retrospect, a reddish orange would have been more accurate.

I cut 6 petals from wool felt and then sewed them together with perle cotton thread to match. I put a knot in my thread a couple inches from the end so that I could tie the two end of the perle cotton around the body of the peg. The petal skirt can be slipped off the peg doll for summer play if desired!

Crocus petals stitched together. I went back and cut the points off these petals. making them rounded like the crocus petals

Here the new spring bulb pegs in my Spring-themed Waldorf Birthday Ring. They are joining last year’s bunny and chick peg dolls!

The knit bunny in the center of the ring is up-cycled cashmere from the Etsy shop WeeThingsFiberArts. The Waldorf birthday ring and wooden ornaments can be found at a number of stores which sell Waldorf toys.