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Craft Time

Licca and her friend are teaching the younger children to make German Stars.

Toy Sunday: Theme--Handmade

In 1958 I learned to make German Stars in Girl Scouts. In 1966 I showed my two BILs and my two SILs how to make the stars. They sold the stars they made generating over two hundred dollars. They used the money to buy Christmas gifts for the family. We used recycled punched tape or perforated tape from the newspaper where my ex and I worked. Punched tape was feed into special linotype machines which made lead slugs bypassing a human type setter. Have you ever made German Stars?

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Uploaded on July 17, 2016
Taken on July 17, 2016