On Friday morning Finn asked if we could go to Target to see if they had a doll that had long hair he could cut. My mantra lately whenever the boys ask for toys is that we just had Christmas and their birthday are coming up, so we can put whatever they’re asking for on their birthday lists. This was not OK with Finn. So Bruce had the idea that they could make Finn a doll. That sat better with Finn and they made a plan to go to the yarn store so they could make a long-haired doll. Seventeen dollars later (mainly due to the race car buttons Finn insisted on), they headed home to make the doll.
By the time I got home, they had cut out the doll from cardboard, used an old shirt for material for the clothes, sewn on shoes and buttons, and Bruce was starting on the hair. Finn was thrilled and couldn’t wait to show me. Rapunzel started off with painstakingly sewn-on orange hair, which Finn promptly cut off (the whole point of the long-haired doll, after all).
After a couple more rounds of this, Bruce decided to sew loops on and attach long hair to the loops so that new long hair could be put on more easily after each haircut. Here are two more shots of Rapunzel in all her glory.
