From the author: Published: collection "The Expanse of Art Therapy: Horizons of Hundreds of Years", Kyiv, 2010. - 84 pp. Krupenichka, red maiden. You are our nurse, joy-heart. Blossoms, fade, grow younger, grow wiser, curl more curly, be a pleaser to all good people! In Rus', and indeed among all Slavic peoples, there was a wide variety of dolls. These include dolls-toys for children, and dolls with the help of which rituals were passed on from generation to generation, and dolls that healed diseases, and dolls-amulets. They did not play with amulet dolls. They were kept in chests and handed over on the wedding day. The very first dolls were made from ash. Then there were dolls made from grass, from hay, from medicinal herbs, from threads, from rags, from grain... In our time, the art of doll-making has almost been lost. And along with them, traditions and the confidence that there will always be prosperity, peace and tranquility in the house are lost, because there is no amulet doll. History of the rag doll A traditional toy in the everyday life of the Russian village, even in the poorest peasant families, has been the rag doll since ancient times . In some houses, up to a hundred of them accumulated. All children played with dolls until they were 7-8 years old, while they wore shirts. But only boys began to wear portages, and girls began to wear skirts; their playing roles and the games themselves were strictly separated. While the children were small, their mothers, grandmothers, and older sisters sewed dolls for them. From the age of five, any girl could make such a nursery rhyme. As they got older, the girls sewed dolls that were more intricate, and sometimes they turned to a craftswoman, a woman, who made these dolls very well, and she made them to order. In the toy dolls, the face was embroidered or they pointed with a pencil, and in earlier dolls - with coal. The amulets dolls were faceless. They had to attach a braid and weave a ribbon into it if they were sewing a girl, and if they were sewing a woman, then they really took apart the hairstyle. They dressed up beautifully, knitted an apron and a belt over the shirt. Girls were given headscarves, women were given a borushka. The doll was considered as a standard of needlework; often teenage girls took a cart with dolls to get-togethers along with a spinning wheel. They were used to judge the skill and taste of their owner. In doll games, children involuntarily learned to sew, embroider, spin, and learned the traditional art of dressing. Toys were never left on the street, not scattered around the hut, but were kept in baskets, boxes, and locked in chests. They took them to the harvest and to gatherings. Dolls were allowed to be taken as guests; they were placed in the dowry of the “young woman” who came to the groom’s house after the wedding, because people were given in marriage at the age of 14. She hid them in the attic and secretly played with them. The eldest in the house was the father-in-law, and he strictly ordered the women not to laugh at the young woman. Then these dolls were passed on to the children. Almost all village holiday rituals were played out in puppet games. They took the game very seriously, maintaining the sequence of the ritual, memorizing and repeating the conversations of adults and the ritual songs they performed. To play, they gathered in groups in a hut, in a barn, or on the street in the summer. And each girl brought with her a box of dolls. The purpose of the master class is to restore and pass on the ability to make national dolls, awaken interest in folk traditions and rituals, make a doll-amulet “Krupyanichka”, and also explore the connection of national doll creativity with internal archetypal structures (in particular, with the archetype of the mother). During the master class, participants will listen to the history of the emergence of Krupenichka dolls, the fairy tale about Krupyanichka and make their own amulet. The “Krupenichka” doll (other names “Zernushka”, “Pea”) is a talisman for satiety and prosperity in the family (for housekeeping). Traditionally, this doll was filled with buckwheat grain or wheat. This is the main doll in the family. The grain doll is a symbol of harvest, wealth, food; it was given for holidays associated with the harvest, as well as for Kolyada and Christmas. Zernushka is filled with different grains, since in ancient Rus' the main type of food was porridge. A grain doll helps a person to believe in a successful year, and faith helps a person to create everything necessary for a miracle life. During sowing, June 13, in the old days