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COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT.
THE
JOLLY BOOK OF
t
BOXCRAFT
BY
PATTEN BEARD
U^t'iA
Models
Sixty-ei^ht Photographic Illustrations by G. S. North from Made and Arranged by the Author and with Twenty-three Diagrams by E. D. Patiee
NEW YORK
FREDERICK
A.
STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
TT\eo
Copyright, 19 14, by
FREDERICK
A.
STOKES COMPANY
September,
1^14
OCT 19 1914
G!,A380917
IS
AND "PLAY"
AUTHOR'S NOTE
^'The Jolly
and rewritten
Book of Boxcraft" has been enlarged from work started in May, 1909. This
work was purchased by St. Nicholas, Little Folks, Good Housekeeping, The Congregationalist and Christian World, The Designer, Holland's Magazine, The Housekeeper, The Ladies' Home Journal, The New York Herald, and The New York Tribune. Thanks are due to them for the courtesy of using material which was included in their articles.
The author
feels that it
is
only right
to
acknowl-
to the children
themselves
little
who
in
many
ways of
Special
own toward
Henry
the
making
of this book.
Raymon
Meehan, playfellows.
Vll
CONTENTS
FAGS
Introduction (Verse)
xv
i
boxcraft
Little
White Cottage
of Boxville
9
i6 19
Boxville Store
District School of Boxville
Little
Church
of Boxville
27
34
.
.
B. R. R. Freight Station
40
43
50
53
The
58
60
65
68 70
73
77
81
The The
Shepherd's
Sheepfold
Building a Box Bridge Building a Toy Windmill Boxville Barn and Farmyard
83
86
89
CONTENTS
PAGE
Circus
92
96
98
100
102
.
How
to
Make
Wigwam
Fort Box
How TO
105
no
.
Making a Noah's Ark for Cracker Animals .114 Box Savings-bank for Pennies 117 How TO Make a Toy Wagon and Sled or Sleigh .119 The China Doll's Crib, Go-cart, and May Basket 122 The Toy Dog Kennel for a Toy Dog 127 How to Make a Teddy Bear's Wheelbarrow .129
. .
131
TO
to
TO
Make a Dolls' Hammock Make a Theater or Punch Show Make a Toy Merry-go-round
134
.
.136
140
143 147
How to Furnish a Doll-house How to Make the Boxcraft Game, "Ringfling" The Game of "Shoot the Chutes" The Boxcraft Game "One-Two-I-Catch-You" The Funny Game of "Mister Box" How to Make a Magic Box
.
.154
157
.159
161
163
NOTE
In view of the large number of illustrations
in this
them,
to appear at the
end of
its
desirable there-
of
illustrations
be consulted fre-
quently.
XI
ILLUSTRATIONS
BoxviLLE, A
Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Boxville
Cottage
4
.
BoxcRAFT Materials ^An Unfinished Boxcraft Toy The Village Store {Outside View) The Village Store
{Inside
View)
The
The
18
District
19
Boxville
Church
{Outside View)
{Inside View) Boxville Railway Station Railway Station {Inside View) B. R. R. Freight Station Shoe-Box Tunnel Bandbox Hotel {Outside View) Bandbox Hotel {Inside View) Boxville Apartment House Box Furniture for the
32
...
33
42
43 52
^The Garage for Boxville Residence The Greenhouse for Boxville Garden The Pergola FOR the Garden The Boat-House or Yacht Club The Houseboat, "Boxcraft" Camp Box on Mirror LakeThe Boxville Gipsy Cart Shepherd's Hut and Sheepfold^The Box Bridge
A
Boxville Residence
.
Apartment House
53
64
65
70
78
xiii
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Toy Windmill Boxville Barn and Farmyard The Boxcraft Animal Show
FACING PAGE
.
Box Brothers' Circus Tent Circus Cages and Booth BoxTOWN Zoo Boxtown's Hose House Indian Wigwam Fort Box The Fairyland Castle ^The Fairy House Box Building with Box Blocks A Box Animal and Box Man A Toy Train Built of Boxes Boxes as Standards for Cut-Outs A Noah's Ark with Cracker Animals A Penny Sav-
84 90
91
....
96 100
108 109
112
ings-Bank
Wagon and
Toy Wheelbarrow 128 Office Furniture for Dolls A Doll's Couch Hammock 132 Dolls' TheaterThe Toy Merry-Go-Round .138 Boxcraft Toy Automobile (With Top) Boxcraft Automobile {Without Top) 144 Doll-House Furniture: Bedroom Tables and Chairs 148 Doll-House Furniture: Mantel and Settle Piano AND Clock 149 Doll-House Furniture: Dining-room Kitchen .152 The Game, "Ringfling" The Game, "Shoot the
Toy Dog Kennel
.
Sleigh
May
Basket
113
Express
120
Wagon and
121
Chutes"
154
160
XIV
DIAGRAM
One
DIAGRAMS
DIAGRAM
PAGE
Six, E, Six,
Seven
Eight
Nine
to
to
to to to
Mantel
180
181
a Pergola a
Zoo
or Circus Cage
.182
183
a Dolls' Theater or
Punch
Show
Ten
Eleven
How How
How
to to
a Sleigh or a Sled
the Boxcraft
.184
185
Game, "Ring-
fling"
Twelve
Thirteen
to
the Boxcraft
Game, "One186
.
Two-I-Catch-You"
How
to
.187
XVI
INTRODUCTION
THE BOXCRAFT ROAD
Near Jollyplay in Boxland, on Boxcraft Road to Fun, There lies a children's village a very happy one.
Its
buildings are
all
boxes
The school-house and the station, and many others more! The name of it is Boxville. Its villagers are toys. And those who build in Boxville are merry girls and boj'^s. You, too, may go to Boxland to make a house for play
Look!
Here, you'll see the guide-post!
Before you
lies
the way.
A
It
pencil,
and a paint-box,
all
I'll tell
you
about
it.
paste or glue,
start
the
was a
fairy told
me
The
Jolly
Book
of Boxcraft
BOXCRAFT
Material
Required
to
Make
Boxcraft: card-
board boxes,
Do
you believe
in fairies?
as
I do.
know
three of
wonderful
as Cinderella's
out of nothing at
better than
full of toys
from nothing
The
fairies that I
know
are called
them
jolly ones.
me
upon a card-
all
told
me
[I]
how much
an ordinary
flat
building with a
roof?"
Happy Thought
"All you have
inquired.
to
do
to
make
it
a house,"
Nimblein
its
and windows
"And
have
all
then,
the house,
you
laughed Play.
for
chimneys
your house,"
Happy Thought
ture
pursued.
beds,
everything!"
to cut the
box rims
to
make them,"
Nimblefingers interrupted.
"And when
they are
made
"A whole
store,
village can be
cottages,
on.
school,
church,
railway
station,
bridges,
tunnels
everything,"
"And
I'll
all that
do
It
will be a pair of
paste.
scissors, a pencil,
some
paints,
"When
in
it!
made,
all
and
BOXCRAFT
some penny
"I
dolls,
make from
You may
GAMES!"
Happy Thought, Nimblefingers, me how to make all these magic toys
but cardboard boxes, and they
children about
it,
from nothing
asked
at all
me
to tell the
so that they
to
be found everywhere.
in everybody's
They
gists,
are in your
home and
home.
drygoods firms,
all
keep them.
wide
Boxes,
to
BOXES
them.
everywhere!
do
is
to ask for
[3]
home
are throwing
the
them away.
makers,
The
the
the
bakers,
candlestick
all
your home.
The
away
stores,
and ever
just
so
many
others, are
throwing boxes
to
realize
what
magic there
them for
the children.
When Happy
fi:rst
told
me
box that
toy-making.
when I asked for them. They smiled when I asked. They did not know that a toy circus tent could be made from a round hat-box. They did not know that a whole village might be
glad
to
give
me
Among
ones.
milliner's.
me were
wide.
It
came from
the
to
was not
in.
In
kept
all
came
to
me.
It
The
large ones.
Boxville Cottage
is
made from
a shoe-box.
Boxville Cottage
is
Boxcraft Materials.
An
BOXCRAFT
what
I
needed when
wished
to
make
a table, or a
chair, or a
punch show, or
pretty
a school-house.
put
all
cotton,
pencils.
went
needed.
first
box
easily.
The
Into
it
had made
after I
had
side of the
one.
All
my play-closet when
I
it
was time
to
pick up.
treasure boxes.
These boxes
you will
materials
I called
my
hope
kept mine,
Happy Thought,
about the plan, and
me
a splendid one.
If
you can
your
would be
your room.
to
hold large
It
is
the
little toys
that
you will
in boxcraft play.
The
toy figures
The
corrugated
cardboard for
roofs, the
The
too.
tools for
your boxcraft,
scissors,
and
paste,
and box
paint-box,
may go
Here
fairies
in this
have shown
make.
There are
craft of
try the
magic
Learn
of
That
is
THAT
That
is
what
things
always do!
They
it
find
I
magic
in little
so
too
[6]
BOXCRAFT
Sing a song of boxes and busy fingers
too,
Some
scissors,
bit of glue!
girls
and boys,
List of Materials
IN Boxcraft
Cardboard boxes.
toys.)
Corrugated cardboard.
fences.)
and
Plain cardboard.
roofs,
(To use
(To use
in
making
(To
and
tissue papers.
for
trees
make
flowerdolls'
legs for
beds,
men
Round-headed paper-fasteners
(To
To
To
fasten
wheels
Pencils.
to vehicles.)
(To use
To
use for
making game-boards.)
[8]
Making a
Little Cottage:
paper
to
make window-glass.
of Boxville.
in a
I
think
better
Shoe might
this
shoe-box like
than to
cottage
in
an old boot!
The
would
be.
know
would
am
sure you
better yourself, so I
am
it.
going
to tell
you how
just like
Find
a shoe-box
and take
its
cover
off.
upon
This
its
is
to
Upon
the front
and a door.
Take your
window
box.
Make
each
window
Half-way between
draw a
Make
Down
into
window
a line
draw
which divides
half.
open.
Cut top
line.
Cut down
the square.
cardboard outward
made
window with
blinds.
is
the
door space.
Diagram Two, A, page 167.) Cut line of your square, down one side and
see
If
you happen
to
meant
through papers
to
[lO]
and press
its
little
door where
Bend
a door-latch.
By
turning
you may
open
it,
you
like.
The
(See
is fit
To make
these,
Make
to
fit
Then, with
ofif
diagonally
downward from
front of the box.
box
to the
This cuts
off a
Upon
make
these
slipped to
half of
Diagram Three, AA^ page 168, showing box cover placed upon side-wall pieces.)
(See
Slip your box cover over the two points,
when
See,
it
makes the
best kind
you wish
is
to
add
narrow
box
that
may
be used.
Measure
its
may
be slipped through
a
and stand
use a box
its
erect,
chimney.
If
you
which has
off bricks
chimney.
You
may mark
it
upon
it
bright red.
wad
of cotton will
for a chimney.
I painted blinds
was brown.
You may use almost any kind of paint The colors from your water-color paintto do this. ing-box will answer. You may use crayons too, if
like.
you
It
is
to dry.
In front of
my cottage,
made
my summer
for
hat in a wreath.
your cottage,
one
You may easily make a garden or you may have tubs of flowers like
It
is
the
in the picture.
filled
with forget-me-nots.
cottage
is
The
small boxes.
My
furniture
is
all
do
so.
The bed is made from a box and its cover. To make it, first take the lower half of your box and turn
it
over so that
its
cuttings, so that
leg.
leaves at
When
you
have cut
of
this
so that
its
rims
instead of
downward.
Remove
the
long
side,
left the
Glue
lower half
Sheets
you
first cut,
finished.
or lace paper.
A
box.
chair
is
made from
ofif
Beginning
at the center of
half-way around.
The
part with
to right
is
and
Cardboard
evenly
Rear
They
(For
Diagram
Is
Six, C,
page
177.)
made from a spool bystanding the spool on end. Over its top Is placed the half of a small round box. (A square box cover may answer quite as vv^ell.) The table may be made from
table for the cottage
to
(For
table, see
Diagram
Six,
DD,
p^ge
178.)
rear,
(For cutting
Six,
mantel with
Diagram
as it
it
G, page 180.)
Use the
it.
If
painted,
when
In
my
Her
You may
Ark
figures,
and picBoxone
from magazines,
be found
at
villagers for
may
children trade.
cent apiece!
all
manner
odd
of small figures
may
be bought.
These are
to use in
little
men
or
women
just the
very ones
At every holiday
always find them.
season,
new
ones appear
You can
I built
I called It
on the
floor:
my
to
you
how
make
so that
[15]
Making a
Boxville Store:
two
spools,
boxes.
a shoeit
The
box.
made from
One shoe-box
you wish
to
its
rests
upon.
If
Another forms
make
side,
shoe-box upon
your
store.
You
front.
window
in
Make
this first.
Two
inches
from the
pencil a
right-
hand end
of the box,
five
wide
this
oblong space
inches by three.
all
Cut out
window window
Cut
space on
space, see
(For cutting a
166.)
a piece of
waxed paper
window.
window
space to
make
glass.
Cut
make windowstore.
Now
Draw Make
box.
to
make
pencil.
Make
Diagram Two, A^ page 167.) line, down the side line that is
see
When
you
cut,
you
like.
It
this,
may
be painted brown.
to
After
store; but
first,
rims
it,
upon
Then,
Two
make
is
The
have.
step
up
to the
porch
may
a
Inside
the
store,
shells,
and
such
as
you may
find
play-
things
may
make
store, or, if
you
like,
them on
no end
is
thin cardboard
out.
There
is
to the plays
when your
store
finished.
Polly
Ann
has just
come
to the store to
buy
a loaf of bread.
There
it is
Those green
box are
in that
apples!
The
To
To
Boxville!
Boxville!
To
have a
to
lot of
fun!
The bun is just a pebble on the And the penny's made of paper,
[i8]
The
Village Store
made
The counter
is
a hatpin box.
The
Tt is
made from
a shoe-box.
The desks
;
oblong boxes. The benches are boxes also with a pencil for a stove-pipe.
Toy
School:
its
of
some narrow
little
Box-
am
going
to tell
it.
a shoe-box to
cover
is
the roof.
To
this, at
The
is
Inside,
made with an inner drawer is the the desks are made from the lower
Their
the benches.
three covers
make
be
cover
is
THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT teacher's chair. A spool forms the stove, and a
cil is
pen-
the stovepipe.
side,
with
its
The
which which
now
windows made
in
it.
These
two
blinds.
The
window
cut.
From
faces
Two
mark
a ver-
upon
tical
the part
which
Mark
down
window
space.
to cut.
Cut
down
Color
you choose.
color paints.
to
make
[20]
which support
Take your
upon
it
Add
to this
four inches at the top, and cut this piece from the
cardboard with
its
added height.
cardboard identical with
one end of the box upright.
Make
the
first.
a second piece of
Glue each
to
the front
upper corner
point.
(See
Diagram Three, A^ page 168, which shows of the side walls when cut.)
Cut
a
tral part,
the shape
its
cen-
where you
see the
Boxville School.
ruler
To make
this, first
inches wide.
see
Diagram Two, A,
line,
page
167.)
Cut top
and across
The
this,
card-
may
be cut out
you do
your
easily.
you happen
its
to
tener, press
door
of
where
form
[21]
turned.
is
Now
finished,
roof.
This
is
the
box cover.
so that
upon
it fits
is.
how this
ing, see
shoe-box build-
168.)
When
The
cover of
a sliding inner
drawer
make
off
the chimney.
Mark
upon
the chimney.
Color them
If
you
do not need
to
done.
like.
You
Your
out of
To
place
it
to cut
the school-house roof a piece of cardboard the size of the end of your box.
should go.
Mark
the end of
[22]
Cut
(For
gram Three, AA^ page 168.) Press the end of the chimney down through this hole. Press the chimney backward to make it stand straight, and glue it. Some tiny bit of cotton stuffed into the upper hole
of the
Of
to
furnish your
it
school-house inside.
district school
have
blackboard
to
The lower
desks.
It
is
make
these.
They are the kind that have a shelf beneath the top. They are open. Take the lower half of one of these boxes. Place it upon one of its long rims. The upper rim will be the top of the desk. The ends of the box will need to
be cut the shape of the sides of a desk.
a desk
(For cutting
gram
E, page 179.)
where the
and glue
its
[23]
The
desk
may
be painted black,
if
you choose.
Make
with
scissors in
each
Cut
upper part
Half the
and
legs.
Then bend
the box upward, cut off the side piece at either end
This will
legs
make
of
176.)
bench and
B, page
see the
heavy black
line.
see a
dotted
desks.
line.
Make
The
teacher's desk
made from
another box
made
end
its
rims.
(For cutting
desk, see
Diagram
if
A, page
175.)
The
desk
may
be painted,
you
The
same box
that
made
the desk.
Cut
The
Cut
Remove
(To cut
Diagram
Six, C,
Color
the chair to
Your
to
school
almost done.
The
be put up
a district school-house
as
much
is
The
Place
it
upper hole
is
represent a stovepipe.
There!
That
easy to
do, I
am
sure!
is
The blackboard
a piece of black
pinwheel paper
If
you
in
a small
map
may
You
can
make
text-books
by folding pieces
of
paper together.
desks.
THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT Penny dolls make excellent scholars. A tumble
toy figure
may make
a schoolmistress or a school-
master.
penny
board.
dolls
and
my
The
at the
Violet
trying to do a
to
sum
Pansy
is
pretending
be ''teacher."
Lily
When
made a
little
now
in
it
each day
and
it
is
splendid play!
them
all
my
when
am
through
They have
finished
with
my
reader,
[26]
Required
for
Making
its
Boxville
cover, one
narrow
(three
inches),
Church ringing?
it is
such a small
but
it
does
You
can try
it
yourself.
this
Suppose
for your
you make a
little
church like
village!
Take a shoe-box. Remove its cover. Lay the shoebox upon one long side rim. The bottom of the box will become the side of the church. It will need to have three long windows cut in it. "Draw these window spaces long and narrow, about
[27]
draw
two.
Cut
spaces to a point.
166.)
window
spaces
out.
Let them be a
little
wider and
longer, however.
make
stained-
the window-casings
by pasting narrow
The
roof.
see,
has a sloping
This roof
is
made of cardboard and glued to each end of the box. You will need to cut these side walls. (See Diagram Three, A^ page 168.)
on two
side walls,
which
are
Measure
Measure
comes
at the
At
it.
the top,
add
four inches to the height, and cut out this oblong piece
Make
another like
Next, cut
off
down
to the
mark you
building
first
at the front of
Cut
church door
in
Make
it
rather high
Then
and bend
as if
it
were on
a hinge.
(See
Diagram
Two, A^ page
each come
When
The
will
the side walls are firmly dry, cut out the cardis
board that
roof
first
is
You
need
Take
a long
This
may be
either
chocolate peppermints
it
may
be a box
[29]
the
top
to
be the roof
mark
is
ofif
to
be the tower.
Cut out
this
Now,
Seel that
it!
And,
tower in place
in the roof
down through
over the door.
the opening
which comes
a bell,
AA^ page
168.)
If your tower
at
to
have
a bell
store.
It will
penny.
You
it
upper
side, as
you
see
in the picture of
my
Boxville Church.
The
belfry
windows
(For cutting
166.)
The
bell
is
double cord
is is
or bit of string.
One end
of this string
used
to
It
sewed,
to the card-
The
down through
the
cardboard
at the base of
can be threaded
to the
end hangs
it
down
into the
church vestibule,
let
as
you see
in the
picture.
When you
makes
your
Church!
Now
church.
is
the
the
The
Paste a
at
little
pulpit.
Use
(See
chair.
Diagram
till
page
177.)
Cut
The
which
moved
Bend
it
forward.
[31]
in the front
To make
up
the
Remove
the card-
cuttings.
Then, make
Place the
if
little
it,
you wish,
to
match.
At least three pews will be needed for the church. They are to be made from the three small box covers. (See Diagram Six, 5, page 176, for making highbacked benches.)
With
a pencil or pin-point,
mark
you
Half of the
made
Cut
Remove
end
to
Bend
upward,
make
to
[32]
Boxville Church
box.
It
is
made from a shoe-box. Its IjcU-tovvcr is an oblong has stained glass windows of red tissue-paper.
Boxville Church has a pulpit, reading desk, and pews that are boxcraft style from boxes and a spool.
made
in
school to begin.
What was
the lesson
it?
you had
last
Sunday?
might not
taught
ville
it
Do
Perhaps you
you
Church
try!
To
this
Two
can be:
little
and
boys.
Learn
this text
[33]
Making a Boxville
Rail-
way
ers,
waxed paper.
Boxville's
Railway Station
is
It
is
toy shop.
You
you
can
make
just
same kind of
It
is
little station as
ture.
easy to make.
itself,
The
building
you
its
see, is the
lower half of a
is
side.
The platform
is
made
upon the
station
is
The
and
Do
you want
make
a Boxville Station?
To
[34]
window on
About an inch and a half from either end of your box, mark a door space four inches high and two
inches wide.
so that
it
Use
a pencil
will be even.
mark
off
scissors
doors, see
bottom
line also.
The
window
on
all
space.
Push each
door inward.
window
space.
Cut
it
around
with pencil.
page
166.)
(To cut window, see Diagram One, A, When you have finished this, take a piece
of the
waxed paper you have and paste it inside the station building over the window space to make window-glass. The waxed paper should be cut a bit
longer and wider than the opening of the window.
You
from
can measure
the box.
it
[35]
if
work
as
dry
as
you
If
you do
not be straight.
They
will curl.
to
or table, for you can put the building upon them now.
See,
it is
form
in front.
The
If
is
fit it
down over
the station.
you wish
to
make
this.
To
secure
It
Then,
hand rim
of the
upward and slip it under the rightcover which forms the roof of the
You
will need
two
pillars at
roof up.
These
Press
top corner of the long station platform's top, and secure the points below by running
[36]
made
of spools.
The
when run into the upper hole of a standing spool, and when both pillars are so fixed, the roof will be quite firm. (See Diagram Three, G, page 172.) Next, make a signboard for your station, and glue
it
to the roof.
You
two and
a ticket
office in
little
doll can be
If
you look
at the picture
my
The
booth
is
box that
is
You
on
its
is
box that
You do
station,
this just as
make
the ticket-booth
window
with
cut
smaller.
Draw
see
window
cut
it
first
Then
out.
To
Diagram One, A, page 166.) When window is cut, paste some waxed paper over the window opening on the inside of the box. Cut a round
window,
opening
In this, near the bottom.
The
ticket agent
is
you
see.
Now,
[37]
Place
it
it
should
You
waiting-room.
Cut
these
from covers
of two boxes
page 176.)
With
pencil or pin-point
mark
till
you have
Half
of each division
made
Half
rim of
will
form the
and
legs.
Cut
legs in the
one end.
between them,
making your
front corner.
rims.
is
Then
Bend
This
to
Cut
what
is
make
the
rest of
Color the
The baggage,
made up
of boxes,
is
[38]
Miss Doll
is
She
Boxtown
on Circus
is
Day
Mr.
Doll,
the
Noahs!
The
station platform
the sky
is
crowded!
When
I
all
is
Then with my
train I play.
And
It
Is
When
And when
[39]
B.
R. R.
Material Required to
wide.
Material Required to
B. V. R. R.
:
Make
like to build a
Freight Station
You
will have so
is
much
to the
from Boxville!
It will take
There
no end
boxes!
you about
It
five minutes,
is
or
less, to
so
simple that
how from
is is
The shoe-box
of the deep
cover
the platform.
The lower
half
(See
double
Mark
Draw down
This
line
Cut down
and
Bend
doorway outward.
Color them,
flat roof,
you
like.
To make
and place
it
the square
down over the freight building at the That is an easy way to make a roof, isn't it? top. And now that the freight office is made, I am sure
you will agree that
it it is
Isn't
fun
to
build your
to
own?
have
Do
way
you want
me
tell
you how
to
make
tunnel too?
system.
It will
be fine
to
rail-
To make
is
How
high
is
Two
inches? Well,
Then, the
how high is it from the ground? Five? holes made for the tunnel opening in either
to
be higher
still
by an inch
see
Diagram
over.
The lower
put
to use, so
There
your tunnel
If
sides
so that
it
big square
The ends
to
of the
how
saw?
tunnel
toot-tool
For
Here
it
goes!
make
a pile of freight
It
is
my
Boxville Railway.
simply great/
Very black
an' spooky
when my
[42]
IT
a Hotel
Make
Bandbox:
its
larger.
ing and
its
roof.
make
the
The
hotel
books
may
all
be used.
Did you
one that
may
be
made from
a square hat-box.
Its
is
porch
is
the
itself.
Windows and
bandbox.
[43]
windows.
make a hotel, begin by marking off Each window must be two inches wide
to
and three inches high. It will help you to place windows evenly if you mark a horizontal line around
three sides of your
the top of the box.
as light as possible.
Use
a ruler, and
make
all
marks
They
you, and must be rubbed out after you have cut out
the
window spaces. Below the line you have drawn, make another, three inches farther down the sides of the box. This
forms the base of windows.
Next, make the windows that come nearest each
corner of the box.
corner.
line
the top of the building, and this will give the width
window.
Make
the end
windows
first.
Then
make the ones that come between. Space evenly, so Cut that windows may come at regular intervals. (For cutting a out each window on all four sides. window, see Diagram One, A, page 166.) Arrange
your lower story windows
as
ones.
At
the center
upon
[44]
HOTEL BANDBOX
line a large
come
line.
at the
door, see
Diagram Two, B, page 167.) Cut its top Cut its base line. Cut the cardboard between
lines in half vertically to
these
two
make
the door.
When windows
paste
of each
is
window
this
made
way.
you
like,
windows open.
The
larger
building
is
bandbox
cover.
As you
see, this
makes
a porch.
make
a flat roof.
Over the front door you may make a fiat roof. (See Diagram Three, G, page 172.) Use for it a narrow
box cover.
this
cover to the
downward through each forward corner of the cover The pencil points may be secured to make a pillar.
in the holes of
upright.
If
Cut
narrow
strip
[45]
upon
it.
Glue
this
One
you have
gilt paint,
you
Penny
and
dress
dolls
make
like
They come
them
men
to
dolls.
inked mine.
You
If
How
see that
at the
are
you going
you look
at the
it is
When
this
is
down.
You
building
again,
this
way.
As you
see, it
may
be closed up
when you
shoe-boxes
just their
lower half
is
Cut the
This
ends
ofif
each box.
a space
between them.
HOTEL BANDBOX
Cut
put
it
a piece of
cardboard
to fit into
forms
Another shoepartitions
box
or
two,
if
you prefer
makes
for
second-story rooms.
in these partitions.
(For cutting
Samples
hotel.
make good
You may
cut
it
into squares to
make
rugs.
Window
The
or lace-paper.
furniture,
itself, is
The lower
to
may
be cut
form
a chair
by removing
its
beginning
moved
is
to cut the
rim
at the center of
one long
is
The
re-
cardboard
it is
upon
its
the
and
two front
(See
Diagram
page
177, for
making
a chair.)
to
make
Round
pill-boxes
make round
[47]
tables.
Square
make square
178.)
tables.
(See
Diagram
its
Six,
DD,
page
An
doll's
side will
form a
front,
rear.
Mark
off the
drawers upon
its
and glue a
strip of
cardboard, upright, at
its
To make
the
upper
part of the bed, cut off the long rims on each side of
the cover.
to
be glued
this
has
cor-
upon
its
rims.
At each
ner of the lower half of the box, cut a leg for the bed
to stand
upon.
Remove
see
the cardboard
from between
each.
Little dolls
at
Diagram Six, AA, page 175.) touring through Hatbox County stop
Drummer
at
dolls,
on their
accommodations
Bandbox Hotel
too.
As
soon
see
may
them making
Hotel
only
it
The meals
You
HOTEL BANDBOX
to
them.
Some want
is
and everybody
always
to
After dinner
walk over
man who
is
Or
else,
perhaps, they
sit
people come
to the village
town pump.
Hurry, hurr}^ with the
scissors!
We
The
Touring through the Boxlan5 Country, Penny dolls may wish to stay In this splendid Hotel Bandbox
That we're
[49]
Make
a Shoe-box Apartthe
whole
of
its
They are shoe-boxes that are placed to stand on end. Windows are drawn upon the fronts of the boxes as they stand. Each apartment house must have a porch
and front door
as well.
Would you
Take
you.
its
like to erect an
apartment house?
Find
a shoe-box, then.
cover
off.
Mark
its
ofif
upon
three
window
spaces, each
with
your box.
Make
each
window two
inches
box
Shoe-
Make
spaces
the door a
window
about
to
it,
three
a
Next
draw
window space for the first-floor window. The windows may be cut out, if you like. (For windows, see Diagram One, A, page 166.) Cut out
the squares you have
base.
drawn on
to
and
Back
of each
window
form
Outline on
work.
the
the
make
(For
top
the
Cut
line,
door, see
Diagram Two, A, page 167.) Cut the down the side next to the window, and across
roof
half of a small
itself is
base line.
The porch
the doorway.
is
The porch
building by
Take
Cut
one end,
a third of the
it ofif
way
around.
fit
This end
it
is
the roof.
Cut
with
it
rims and
place.
down over
the building.
Paste
in
The
floors of the
the rest of the cover into the inside of the box, horizontally.
half.
in
should be.
box.
Penny
dolls
up
prove.
Jinks.
ladies
have come
to
look at
the rooms.
There is a fine apartment "To Let" in Shoe-box FlatBut those who wish to rent it may not own a dog or cat! When Mrs. Noah came there, the Janitor said, "No!
We cannot
We cannot
[S2]
have you
go!"
This
roof
is
is
made from
shoe-box.
Its
the
end of the
Here
is
House and
for
Bandbox Hotel.
is
letter-paper
box and
cover.
The Garage
is
made from
The cover
of
the
box
is
its
roof.
A BOXVILLE RESIDENCE
Material Required for
Making a Boxville
its
Resicover,
some glacine
waxed paper, some artificial flowers, lace-paper cut from candy boxes, and some box rims.
or
little
house
The husband
Mrs. Doll,
to
who owns
You
motor car
Boxville
He commutes
to
Boxtown.
Mr.
it
would be fun
you will have
to
make
a Boxville
to
I will tell
you how
do
it.
to
hunt for
a deep,
When you
have found
[53]
over so that
it
stands upside-down.
Take
That
you are
Upon two opposite sides of the box, mark off two window spaces. (For windows, see Diagram One, A, page 166.) Each window space measured off, with
help of ruler and pencil, must be an inch and a half
square.
Have the bases of the windows, as well as their tops, made a uniform distance from the base of the box building. Each window should be an
equal distance from the corner of the box nearest
it.
When
window
house.
Draw
you.
167.)
When
its
you
a square in
upper
is
window
to
be in the door.
line of
down made
its
right side.
for the
Then cut out the square you window in it. There, the door will
[S4]
A BOXVILLE RESIDENCE
open and
close,
you
see,
it
on the side
pasted
where
Waxed paper
in a square
the glass
window.
prongs pushed
to
make
door-knob with a
latch.
By
draw
finished,
window
space
Now, you
can
begin
to
cut out
all
the windows.
You
Yes
But
it
Where
is
the cover of
your box?
down over
the building.
There
you are!
will
The cover
a fine
make
chimney.
Glue
it
on end
to the top
Where
is
the
flat
it
letter-box cover?
That
is
to
be
the porch.
Place
on the
[SS]
floor or table,
and then
your Boxville
it
Resi-
so that
back upon
this
veranda.
Be
See, there
just a
The veranda
and pasted
railing
is
box
to the
you wish
to
have
a step
up
to the front
this.
porch, a
small box or
its
cover will
make
is
My
is
Mrs. Doll
also.
Mr. Doll
It
made
to
from
hat.
a
I
on an old summer
made
is
an arbor.
was easy
ends and
make
is
that.
The arbor
It
I stood
up on
course,
its
trimmed
have
Of
if
you play
You
made
garden
At almost any penny store you can buy a little round mirror that will make a garden pool. You can make a sun-dial also. It Is a spool
from
a hand-glass.
it.
You
will
A BOXVILLE RESIDENCE
have
to
mark
with pencil.
makes
I
a comfortable
home
I do.
no place
A charm from the fairies seems magic play there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met elsewhere.
[57]
Make
a Boxville Garage
its
cover.
Here
of
a
is
a toy garage.
Mr. Doll
garage like
of Boxville.
it?
Would you
like to
make
making
it
garage
Place
upon
the table
rims.
become
make
a flat
Upon
draw
a large square
four inches in
this
square come
is
The
square
to
be
Diagram Two, B, page 167.) Cut the Cut the base line. From top to base line
[58]
form
The
doors will
fold
you wish.
a
On
may draw
window
inches
with blinds.
Draw
from top
to base of the
window
This
halves.
space to
make
window
blinds, see
Cut down
its
building
the door.
is
to
make
blinds.
Color
match
There!
The garage
finished.
Wind up
it
your
how
nicely
runs right
box of cardboard.
Isn't
it
just dear/
[59]
Make
a Greenhouse: the
seven inches long
as
five to
and about
is
Material Required to
Make
a Pergola: half of an
Material Required to
artificial flowers,
Make
penny mirror
a hedge,
make
It
is
made one
for Boxville.
Mr, Penny
Doll's resi-
[60]
and
a greenhouse, a
sunken
make
Sandpaper cut
and laid
upon
it
roadway may be
just like a
garden hedge.
Garden
made by
it
gilding spools
stands upright,
some
artificial flowers.
is
made from
the deep
inches deep.
If
you
like,
your greenhouse
may be
made smaller, but this size is an easy one to handle. The box itself forms the greenhouse building. Its roof is of bent cardboard, and the glass in it is waxed
sandwich paper.
Shall I
tell
you how
to
make
like it?
to use
and place
upon
its
rims,
open
[6i]
Cut
On
sides
each
make
a pencil dot to
(Leave
without marks.)
the center top point on each end cut
left, to
From
down
under the
roof.
Diagram Three,
to
CC, page
170.)
sides of the
box
meet
these,
Remove
each long
side.
Now,
to
fit
in the point at
Cut them
you
like,
of the building
which
to
good
(For cutting
a door, see
Diagram Two,
A, page
167.)
[62]
Fold
it
through
(See
the center of
long sides
to
make
a gable roof.
Diagram Three,
C, page 170.)
this roof, cut
In each side of
out windows.
Paste
to the
Any
boxes
when
with small
artificial flowers.
They
may go into the greenhouse. To make the pergola, you will need
of a white shoe-box.
its
Take
the
upon
opening below.
that
of the
was
this
box bottom.
Then, cut
off
(See
181.)
from some
Bristol-
each
Glue one
inch-wide
strip
Cut
five
strips of
pergola box.
made by cutting the top from the Each strip should be evenly crossed
pillars.
artificial flowers left
between opposite
If
from
Shepherd.
I
bought
Look
and
see.
am
Here's the
little
Bring your
It
is
scissors
see!
Oh,
[64]
Boxville Greenhouse
is
cut
a deep
has a roof
The
glass
is
waxed
paper.
The Pergola
is made from the lower half of a white shoe-box. white cardboard are glued across the top.
Strips of
The Boat-house
The
or.
Yacht Club
is
made from
the
half
of a
deep box
Its
Boxcraft Houseboat
is
made from
Two
Make
and
also
Boxville Boat-house
made from
roof
is
an oblong box
Its
wharf
is
and
its
another shoe-box
cover.
If
you wish
to cut a lake
from
a sheet of silver
is
Any water toys, such as swans, ducks, fish, or frogs, may swim on Silver Paper Lake, and from your yacht club, parties of fishermen may angle for magnetized fish. The boat-house may be a part
of the
in season.
first
need
to turn
rims so that
its
bottom
becomes
top.
Draw
box.
a three-inch square
its
Let
base
come
to the
[65]
to
the picture.
of this square.
Draw
a vertical line
down
the center
Cut
Bend outward
is
doorway.
The dow is
boat-house
to
to
To make windows
side of
with awnings,
your
top
166.)
side lines
line.
Bend
stripes,
water-color paints.
When
your
all
windows
may
place
little
Over
fit
another shoe-box
fine flagstaff.
Run
its
make
little
the pennant.
My
Boxville people
Have
a club-house
to
where they go
do some
fishing,
to take a row.
Upon my play-room
It has
floor;
And
Upon
I
And
make
splendid rocks!
Some day
find
some more!
[67]
Make
a Houseboat:
the
Here
is
very thing
to sail
on
Little
dolls
may spend
make
their
vacation upon
it.
Would you
It
is
like to
a house-
boat
to
play with?
not difficult.
top to top.
There
is
the
Upon
of the
same
window on
window
lines.
Bend
make
the awnings.
stripes,
you
and window.
Make
it
an upright
Mark
window beside each door. (To cut door Cut top line space, see Diagram Two, A, page 167.) and down one side. Bend the door outward on the
a
Make
third side as
if it
were on
a hinge.
is
houseboat
made by
pressing
down through
the top of
paper pennant
may
be
glued
make
little
houseboat.
Fasten
start
it
to
any
penny
dolls
play-room
to sail
floor.
The
houseboat, of course,
It
not
meant
might be
Paper Lake.
a litde houseboat with some windows and a door, made an inland voyage all around the play-room floor! At last I moored my houseboat beside my little chair: There was a carpet hassock that was an island there.
I built I
And
[69]
yard
make
tree-trunks,
to
a sheet of silver
make tents, and any pebbles, you have among your treasures.
It
is
moss, or shells
great fun to
as
make
Mirror Lake
Camp
much fun as being in a real camp! Mirror Lake Camp may be made on the play-room floor.
almost
First, if
flat
it
on the
if
This
is
the grass.
silver paper, cut out a circle
Next,
of
it,
and paste
to the
crape paper
to
form
a lake.
may
substitute a
cheap mirror.
Place
this
it.
You
[70]
Camp Box
on Mirror Lake. Its tents are made from the halves of shallow boxes. Trees are made of clothespins.
The Boxville
Gips}- Cart
is
made from
a correspondence-card box.
These
trees are
made by
standing some
air.
Cut some
forks.
It
it
in
between the
trees.
The
box
tents are
made from
To make
may
a tent, cut
as far as the
be.
Bend
(For
downward
to
each side of
this cutting,
making
downward.
Diagram Three, , page 171.) You may have as many tents in your camp as you
Perhaps your
tin soldiers
like.
might
like an
encamp-
ment on
the shores of
Mirror Lake.
Small oblong
When
summer, maybe
it
would be
nice,
on some warm,
sunny day,
trees in a
woods.
Perhaps
so!
Cut
that
bits of twigs
trees.
Pebbles
will help to
is
make
water lake
Its sides
with water.
Of
the
camp
if
time
is
you
let
them
it!
know
it
because
I let
I tried
had
and
my
It
I
spoiled
and
is
had
to
make
new
tent, too.
know about
ter to
this so
you won't
try
it.
It really
bet-
made
And had
My
I
Beneath the
made some little camp tents, was a jolly thing to do Some penny dolls a picnic laid
It
I
[72]
WAY
Material Required to
a
Make
as
Toy Gipsy
Cart:
packed
Do
you think
like the
it
would be fun
to
make
is
a gipsy
wagon
one
in the picture?
It
a very simple
thing to make.
First, find a
box such
as
in
store.
Take
its
high cover
ofif,
all
of
of
it all
around.
this,
and
is
The box
to
be
windows
rim.
its
will need to be
made on the sides of the box Turn the box over so that
L73]
Make
To make
base
it,
mark
off
come at the very edge of box rim. (To cut door, see Diagram Two, A, page 167.) Cut one side line from the base of
its
Have
the
box up
Bend
See,
it
the cardboard
outward
to
make
you bend
it.
cart.
If
Each should be evenly distant from a corner. (To cut plain windows, see Diagram One, A, page 166.)
If,
to
windows
base.
and
Then
from top
to base.
Press
(For
making
blinds, see
166.)
Dry
Color
cart.
HIGHWAY
green or
paints.
Make them
from
stiff
The wheels
cardboard.
If
you
round
Draw
each,
if
you
like.
When
out,
and
paper-fastener.
Bend
its
prongs
into place
if
on the
cart.
be glued,
making
axles.
This
is
half of a small,
narrow box
end
Cut
to
your wagon
in front,
so that
of the cart
this to
make
itself.
At
steps
it
by folding a
board pasted
to the
There!
The
gipsy cart
finished.
Penny
dolls
They're going up
to Boxville. The horse has quite a load! Good fortune's coming to you, and it isn't far away: We're going with the penny dolls a-gipsying in play!
[76]
Hut:
you have
it,
silver
paper
to
make
Here
[
in the picture
you
had
a little flock of
in a box,
They came
to tend them.
One
herd and
make
You
you
can
make one
will tell
like, I
you how
do
it.
First, lay
floor
to
make
to
grass.
There must be
grass,
you know.
Of
course,
if
need
grass.
But,
if
you have
make
a hill or
It
made by
put-
Next, I made a long fence by cutting some corrugated cardboard into long
it
upon
its
made
There
is
you may
It
also use.
From
this kind,
made my
sheep-pen.
jar.
small glass
To make
corrugated cardboard.
Cut
it
crosswise instead of
of a picket fence.
The
shepherd's hut
Its
is
made from
is
of a deep box.
roof
a piece of corrugated
downward.
To make
box over
so that the
is
It
is
made from
a long shallow
box with
a cover.
upon
its
Measure the
Glue each
page
to
size of
its
fit
ends,
pieces of cardboard to
Cut
Both must
Mark
at the
(For
Diagram Two, A, page 167.) Cut the top line and down one long side. Bend the door outward One-inch squares may be as if it were on a hinge. cut in the box rim to make windows. (For cutting a window, see Diagram One, A, page 166.) Cut the
square on
all
four sides.
the roof in the point of the
Place a
gable,
if
window under
like.
you
The
this
is
made by measuring,
first,
Measure
inches to
cardboard together
make
[79]
a pointed roof.
C, page 170.)
Glue
is
and the
little
shepherd's hut
a
finished.
it,
may go
this.
Do
is
The paper
be
merely folded
over them.
pretty stream
drink at a stream,
I
made from an irregularly paper. The woolly sheep love to You can see the lake I am sure.
It
may
made
for
my
landscape.
was
a mirror.
A
is
rocky
made
in the
as
Mary had
little
lamb,
its
it
fleece
was white
as
snow;
in play
little
shepherd guarded
in sheepfold, don't
it
you know!
It didn't
go to Boxville School,
grazed about
Upon
day.
rso]
When
used in
you look
at the picture of
how
it is
made.
may be
and
many ways
for play.
Your
may have
tunnel.
of Silver
may
fish
bridge
to deliver
goods
at Boxville Cottage.
Guests
I
am
many other things to play with it, so I will tell you how to make one, even though it does seem as if you might almost make one without
sure you will find
directions!
Cut
a semicircular
piece from each long rim. This makes the long arch
of the bridge.
(See
173.)
its
so that
top
The
and
lengthwise rims
it.
of the
box will be
roadway over
let these
at the corner,
end rims
to
fit
to a strip of
cardboard cut
the
width of the box, and join the bridge roadway to the road along the floor where you are playing. Each
strip of
cardboard glued
five inches long. to
to
may
be about
If
make more than one bridge, you may easily do so. The shape of your box, whether deep or shallow, will make a different kind of bridge. The landscape of your Boxville may be as full of
you wish
silver
paper
streams
and
foot-bridges,
railway
you please!
London Bridge may fall down, But my Box Bridge stands true!
I'd rather
own
a Boxville Bridge
That
stands up
wouldn't you?
[82]
box made
a long pencil.
From any
make
the box.
sides,
you may
a windmill.
You
it,
Remove
to stand
its
box over
becomes
upon
upper rim
so that
its
top
base.
Cut
of
a small
of the lower
box rim,
you
see
it
in the picture
my On
The
box windmill.
its
narrow window.
A'
make
this.
It
is
to
be
made from
cardboard.
To make
Cut
it,
take your
round
out
or about
from
this circle
[83]
from
a pie.
(See
Diagram
opposite side.
Glue
it,
it so.
Paint
if
you wish,
your
Color
it
Sails for
windmill need
pattern.
paper
that
may
Pad paper
that
is
will answer.
Cut
a square of
pad paper
Fold
to
this
your windmill.
halves
square together to
quarter-sections.
make
Cut
in
then again
make
(See
shown
for shap-
ing windmill
174.)
sails.
Diagram
its
Five, Z, page
it
upon
cardboard, outline
around
out.
This
is
see
Diagram
a hole
Make
through
center.
Press through
it
Make two
the roof
below
The Windmill
is
made from
round box.
Its
cardboard.
The Boxville Barn and Farmyard. The roof of shoe-box covers. The fence for the Barnyard
the barn
is
is
made
of
two
made
of a box rim.
Shall
it
go cantering over
windy day
it
went round
an'
round;
easy
work
to
make
one.
And
it's
lots of
fun to do!
[85]
Make
Farms
am
knowing how
to
may be kept. You may easily make a barn picture. You will need to have
the building.
roof.
one in the
shoe-box to
make
to cut
Two
shoe-box covers
is
make
its
gabled
Some cardboard
its
rim
so
To make
mark
a three-inch square
upon an end of
your box.
Draw
a line
down
[86]
its
center, vertically.
167.)
line
The
base
box rim.
The two
to
make
made
as
high
a
as
your
box
Is
wide.
gabled
roof, see
to
Glue one
The
roof
covers lapped
form
a gabled
The upper
part
is
Cut
if
a little weather-vane
like,
from a
strip of
cardboard,
you
and paste
is
it
barn roof.
The farmyard
stand
if
corners.
good
enclosure.
[87]
A
The
trough.
make
lives
chicken-coops.
on
my
farm.
You
Bill.
see her
He
is
would
like to live
on your
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Just run and fetch some glue,
Some
scissors,
and a shoe-box:
When
With
all
the
work
little
is
through,
We'll have a
farmyard
it,
a fence around
too!
[88]
shapes and
box favors,
ring.
to
make
The
v^ill
make
a splendid
circus ring.
Any
may
to
perform upon.
with Noah's
favors that
A
to
really
Ark
come
one
at
day
times.
tell
Shall I
you how
it.
made my
circus?
You
can
make one
First of
like
all, I
collected animals.
At
a small
candy
be
filled
tight.
stand
I
upon spools
to
make
over
its
Cut
a leg
Remove
the
my
animal
Each came
little
to
me
as a
dinner favor.
They
a a
were both
figures of toy
The
animals performed
kinds of tricks.
I
They
splen-
had two or
They performed
am
circus.
much
fun, I think.
to
you happen
have
At some toy shops, you will find celluloid animals. At Japanese shops, you will find cotton animals. In your own Noah's Ark there will be wooden ani[90]
This
is
Box
Brothers' Circus.
It is
made from
white bandbox.
view taken inside the Circus Grounds. The walls are corrugated cardboard. The cages are boxes with covers and the booth is the lower half of a candy box.
;
tumble
toys, jointed
Halloween
figures,
trainers
Wild animals and domestic animals may be bought at candy stores as favors. They also come in boxes at
the shops
where
be small
When What
all,
you'll see
a fine
show
this
for
tell
now,
you how.
[91]
Make
a Circus Tent:
a sheet of
cardboard.
Material Required to
Make
A booth
box.
bars.
letter-paper
be the cage
A circus tent
of a
is
make.
It needs
round bandbox
to
make
it.
The lower
to stand
tent.
half of the
its
upon
rims.
is
The
roof
make
to
make an
entrance.
Draw some
[92]
folds
upon
this
with
CIRCUS TENT
blue pencil.
paints instead.
If
When
this is done,
box some
made.
strips of string to
form
tent ropes.
The
may
next be
Take
a large sheet of
is
it
a circle that
of your bandbox.
Cut
this out.
Cut from
(See
the circle
Diagram
Lap
make
tent.
When
the
dry, slip
tent
it
is
your circus
If
it
may
be
its
slightly curled
will stand on
rim, to
make
Of course, you must have a fence! Of course Hardware boxes that come with covers double and close telescope fashion make very good circus cages. To make these cages, you will need to cut top and bottom from the boxes, leaving rims only. You may,
if
Paste strips
It should be
glued inside
to side.
cages.
(For cutting
box
make
a cage, see
Dia-
to
may go
out on parade.
The wheels
are
There should be
they are cut out
its
When
center
tener.
The prongs
firm.
to
If
or glue
them
a
your box.
grounds
may
be
made from
Stand the
in size.
Cut
in
its
awning
the
made
down
at
each
side line
pressed
base.
[94]
CIRCUS TENT
(See
Diagram One,
Camp
make
Box.
page
bending
to
a tent.)
tumble
Box
toys,
wooden
dolls,
penny
dolls,
Noah's Ark
ladies, shep-
Brothers'
floor.
If
your
toys,
know.
from old
magazine
circus
the tent),
I advertised in Boxville,
didn't cost a cent!
The penny
I
dolls of Boxville
And
I tell
you,
it
was gay
[9S]
Make
Boxtown Zoo:
some shoe-boxes,
toothpicks to
make
A zoo
cage
all
is
make.
You
can
Noah's
Ark
animals,
may happen
to have.
The
You
When
be
you
start to
made from
boxes.
Cut out
a large square
from
They
down through
in the
the top
If
you cut
box
rims.
in the
^^^H
see
Diagram
Dens
taken
off.
to stand
in the
edge of
box rims,
as
you
see
them
in the picture.
Rims
closures. Little
make
"Do
not
This
is
the rule of
all zoos.
have a
tiger, too!
A monkey,
And
I
and a "nelephant,"
so I
made
in
a zoo!
put a tiger
An',
if
a cage,
I'll
made
it,
For
lots of
fun to play.
[97]
you own
is
a toy fire-engine or a
there
every reason
that
why
you
it
The engine-house
from
ting a square
made
cut-
quickly
made by
doorway
box rim
and by adding
a flat roof.
so that
it rests
inverted
upon
rims.
base must
come
at the
edge of
Draw
tically.
a line
down
Cut with
scissors
up
this line
top line.
your box.
See
Diagram
Two, B, page
167, for
making
Why,
I
it
all to
do
that,
its
did
it?
Let's see
how
new building
have a
little
engine,
And
it
Where
its
door.
[99]
Make
a
the
Wigwam:
half
few small
sticks or
pencils.
Why,
one
of course,
make one
like this
all
With
it,
kinds
of Indian plays.
It will
wigwam. The cover must be a round one. One bandbox cover will make two wigwams. Cut the cover into halves. Take one of these and lap its
edges
to
form
a cone.
to-
gether.
Cut
opening
wigwam.
flap,
tent.
and bend
this
[lool
is
cut
from
half of a
This
is
Fort Box.
It is
made from
a deep
box and
its
cover.
HOW
be
its
TO MAKE A WIGWAM
Small
sticks or thin pencils
entrance.
may
be
make
tent sticks.
Indian
tent.
symbols
I
may
had an Indian
in a
Store.
He came
woods
home.
for
a silver
canoe
made
made
a green
him out
of crape paper,
my
I
play-room
have played
in
the
came
off
our Christmas
tree,
and you
mats
at
him on
the trail of
Noah's Ark
animals!
And
made them
Kindergarten myself.
By By
the shores of Abigmirror,
the shining of
its
water,
Stood the
wigwam
it
of Big
Box
Chief,
Dark behind
rose a
mountain
Made
of paper-covered boxes:
it,
[lOl]
FORT BOX
Material Required to
square box with
a spool will
its
Make
Box
fort.
Fort: a deep,
cover.
make
Would you
soldiers?
like to
tell
make
your leaden
it?
Shall I
you how
do
If
your
To
start the
its
building of your
rims so that
its
fort,
over upon
of the building.
aside.
Take
the
box cover
and lay
it
Find
a pencil
They
are
made
windows upon
the
box
front.
Draw
out, if
ruler to
make each opening even. Cut these squares you wish. They may also be painted black,
to cut
them
out.
[102]
FORT BOX
To add
of your
rim
every half-inch
the
way
around.
Cut
sections
as
its
it
to the
top
see
Diagram
At
may
easily devise a
sallyport
toy
hair-pin
Diagram Two, A, page 167.) cannon may be made with a small round box by pasting it upon the side of a spool
thumb-tack
it
I painted
my
guns
you
like,
you may
color paints.
An encampment
to the top of the
of tents
may
center
downward.
171, for
making
a tent.)
to
If
you happen
have a penny
will be just
about
it.
The
The woods
Bushes are
flat.
down
from
stones.
I
had a leaden
soldier,
And
I
always fought
to
win!
made him
is
into general,
in
command
Boxville
Army
Fort in Boxland.
'[104]
HOW TO
FAIRYLAND HOUSE
Material Required to
either round or square
Make
one
at least
or seven
inches deep
is
best.
Material Required to
Make
little
a Fairyland House:
be cut in
its
sides, a
few
crackers or ''goodies"
these.
possibly some
Have you
have not been
gilt or silver
paper in place of
Well,
if
you
a fairy-
and
in
it
you may
and Blue,
All are
toys,
and
it is
an easy matter
is
to get
them together
land
castle.
quite
as easy as it
to
make
a fairy-
[05]
you how.
is
First,
you may
like to build
all-important.
was
a fairyland
without that!
its
is
cover.
mat-
round or square-sided.
castle
make one more like a fortress. It scarcely matters which you choose. Take the cover from your box. This is to form the castle ramparts later. High up
in the
Cut
Next
parts in the
box cover.
Glue these
is
to the top
and the
It
is
castle
made!
is
The
Princess
who
a
.
penny
doll
(made
of tinfoil)
My PrinYou
a bit
golden hair.
it
can see
in the picture.
is
The Knight
of wire.
shining.
a leaden soldier.
is
His spear
is
His shield
and
You
a
little
at
Japanese shop.
of crockery
cotton animals that are sold three for five cents some-
my
There are
where
buy penny
toys.
Sometimes they
DRAGONS. When
mean.
you go
to a
They
are all
work
to
into
tale that
you wish
to
Don't forget
make
It
when you
may
for the
mouth
of a den, but
on the play-room
floor
with
Almost any
fairy tale
may may
Little toys
among your
will have a
I built
playthings
help out.
know you
I did.
too.
at fairyland.
me
This
was
to help with
my
fairyland play.
boy
and a
girl.
in a Boxville Cottage.
House,
made that. It was in a forest of clothes-pins the trees made for Camp Box. made the fairyland house of the Witch from a
I cut
two windows
in
you
see
it
fairyland house.
To
some
little
The
fairy.
was of
It
was very
it.
one that
off
is
flower
my
old hat.
and made
tissue-paper.
You
witches, elves.
Oh,
it
will be fun, I
know!
summer you can go out into the garden and gather hollyhocks. The flowers make real little flowIn
[io8]
Fairyland Castle
made from
its
cover.
Fairy House
made of
box covered
witli goodies.
up
in red,
and pink,
of the
just
go
to a party.
The buds
down
make
you
at the base
of the full
blown flower
to
make
know
that!
Once
By a cruel spell imprisoned near a Chinese dragon's lair. Day and night her pasteboard tower, dragon-guarded, you'll agree, Offered ill to those in Toyland who would set the Princess free. Many little dolls essayed it in a truly frightful way They were gobbled by the dragon one and all, I hate to say!
But
there
came a leaden
his steed
armor dressed;
chosen quest.
Bravely on
in his
At
And
And
reign In
was set free, then, by her Knight. Playtown even to this very day,
[109]
is
always fun,
as
you know.
with boxes
You have
in the
tried
it
with cards
same way?
be glued.
Their covers
roofs.
You
It
There
is
really
ways
these.
From
heads.
boxes of uneven
size,
men and
animals
may
be made.
Round boxes or small oblong boxes form Larger boxes make bodies. Legs and arms
drawn with pencil upon
is
The
faces are
the back
of boxes
where there
no
print.
wire hair-pin
[no]
need
to
be
it.
Men
of all sorts
may
If
be made.
There
is
child,
you will
find that
amusing
to
at a
time
till
the supply
is
ex-
see
how many
different
It will be a
winner will be the one who can make the most with
his store.
It
is
men when you have to spend a day in bed. They may be placed upon a table near the bedside. They
are light to handle, and they require no cutting or
If
you decide
to
have measles
or
mumps,
the
little
boxes
may
be disposed of easily
after
find
new
again.
number
as
Try
to
pack
many
boxes
as
[III]
as
evenly
as
you can
in
pack-
at sides,
to see
how
small
may
be packed
into.
Try them
in various
forms,
to
till
arrange them.
if
some
friend to see
what you have accomplished. When you give some person this puzzle, mix your boxes well so there is
no clue
box.
to their
Toys
like trains
may
be built with
a
little
more than
round box.
Its
a long cracker
box for
for engine.
Its coal-car
The
is
engine's smoke-stack
bit of
wax
or
buy
penny
store.
by themselves.
You
am
sure, in
[112]
A Toy
Train that
is
built
from boxes.
Its
new ways
It
is
to use
your boxes
in this
kind of
may
always find
And
it is
that
never
Indeed,
it's
wonderful
to play
With
little
["3]
shoe-box, and
inches by four.
Next time that you have cracker animals with, build them an ark! It is splendid fun.
tell
to
play
I will
you how
to
do
it.
to
build with
a shoeand
a child's shoe-box,
whole
of
ten inches
To make
pointed.
shoe-box cover.
Cut
its
off.
The
upon
door
ark building
is
placed on
The
Place
ark building
it
its
made from
its
rims so that
bottom becomes
Cut
in
To make
this,
cut
of the
Then
After
see
167.)
were on
a hinge.
door-knob
points,
In
way, animals
may
be
of the
They should be cut in heavy cardboard and made equal-sided. The width of one end of your box will give you the dimensions to make these. (See Diagram Three, 55, page 169.) Paste one of these
cardboard pieces
to
(For making
169.)
dry, slip
["S]
Now, when
there
is
RAINY DAY
Find
a doll for
ahead of you,
summon
Arrange them
a piece of
pairs.
to
paper
make
the dove.
footstool will be
all
Mount
out,
may voyage
floor.
the
whole day
comes
When
all
the sun
so
busy
Two
by two!
Two
by two!
covers to-day
Make
a Noah's
later,
Ark
for play.
feast
Maybe,
you may
[ii6]
Make
a Savings-bank:
box
in
a small
to
it.
When I began to make boxcraft toys, I used to save my pennies to buy pinwheel paper, cotton animals,
and
little
Then, when
found that
had money
to
buy
it.
like to
know how
to
make
You
stores.
will need
like that in
at
which
correspondence
It has a
come packed
stationery
double cover.
so that the printing
Turn
is
the
box over
on
its
top
hidden.
it
Make
over.
turning
Paint them,
if
you
like.
made from
half
[17]
The
floor of the
porch
is
pasted
under
it.
Remove the drawer from the little box with sliding The outside of the box, as you may have cover.
noticed,
is
like a tall
chimney.
it
Take
remove
lines
this
and stand
on end
at the top of
your box.
Draw its
Then
the
you made.
this is done,
When
Glue
tight
and
let it
dry well.
The
this
chimney
There
count
in
my bank five
in the
bank
to
made
made
it,
somehow!
My
bank has a
tall
chimney,
The And
pennies drop
down through:
It's really
[1,8]
Make
Toy Wagon:
the
few square
which
to
Material Required to
long cardboard box with
Make
its
cover.
sled
may
be
made from
If
you wish
to
make
a toy
Turn
upward
the
if
it is
the
is,
Keep
you use
is
that, as it
This
body
of the
wagon.
it
same
size.
wagon
wheels.
Cut each
out.
They must
[i'9J
should come
of your box.
stick,
and put a
bit of
wax
strip of
cardboard cut
its
to fit the
The
shafts are
two
cardboard pasted
to
Whoa
there!
Back up
back!
There
is
your toy
to tie his
He
is
He
floor.
round the
If
a
you wish
to
it
make
over.
lower half of
Then, cut
off
same
direction.
(See
[120]
box
made from
box rims.
Sleigh
made from
It
has been
Doll's Crib
made from
cut
The
Go-cart
is
from
The Basket
is
half a box.
Its handle and its is the cover of a candy box. wheels are cut from cardboard. The Little Doll may have a sled cut from a candy box.
Turn
it
so that
it
opens at top.
Cut
the
upper portion of
a sleigh,
to the runners.
make two
part.
sleigh.
back of the sleigh and the low.er half into the forward
(See
184,
for
making
A, runners; B,
it is
When
snow, and
my
The boy
of the sleigh.
My Teddy Bear, he likes to play With little toys I make this way: The cover of a box may be A wagon like the one you see. Or, maybe, I may make a sled For little Teddy Bear, instead!
[I2ll
THE CHINA
Make
make
the legs of
Material Required to
Make
a Doll's Go-cart:
length,
to
make
wheels.
Wheels may
Material Required to
Make
a Doll's
May
may
Bashave;
paper-fasteners.
See, here
is
You
can see
tell
how
easy
to
make
it.
hardly need to
you.
MAY BASKET
each long
its
and cut
off a part of
there
is
head and
foot.
To
its
There!
an easy
to
you wish
to
make make
box
in the
as the
a circle
once again
this circle
as
wide
Cut
into half,
and
Glue one
That
is
all!
To make
Cut
the rim
from
it
one long
is
with-
out rim the handle of the cart, as you see the box cut
in the picture.
to
make
the
Each
circle
must be
of equal
Make
unless your
box
long.
In
your cardboard
circles to correspond,
larger.
[123]
box through
to the
Your
stick or pencil
dry well,
to
When
done.
you have
fitted the
end of a
to
box
into the
all is
make
a seat,
You may
if
to
make
the seat,
you prefer.
it is
handle
this.
of
my
go-cart, but
is
not at
all
necessary to do
The
go-cart
in the go-cart.
You
can
the doll
with
a piece of string.
Is
The
to
very easy
different
construct.
You
long
can use
as
it
for
many
things,
and
as
or even
You
large ones
will need
to
help
Take
upper
half,
[124]
MAY BASKET
This
is
you
long
like,
and cut
a strip of
as the
handle.
Glue
box.
There
is
the handle
just see
what
cunning
In spring.
May
baskets can be
made
this
way.
just
May Day
gift.
shells that
up
may go
little
into a little
and be given
to
some
sick child,
who
bedside.
At
Easter,
fill
raffia
Glue
Then
ask cook
if
Place
an Easter
is
gift.
When
your water-color
paint-brush
wee
eggs.
The box
tions, too.
baskets
or
filled
bright wintergreen.
They may be used as place favors for party when filled with red paper hearts.
Little cardboard boxes
a Valentine
Are
They make 'most any kind of That you can use in play.
I
toy
made
a little go-cart,
A
And
I
basket,
and a bed,
there are
many
other toys
[126]
Toy Kennel
some larger
box that
is
Here is a picture of Fido, my little him a kennel so that he could stay near
at night
dog.
made
like one, if
a play dog.
to
If
you do want
make
you how.
is
Take
This
to
be the
building.
Turn
to it
it
it
Draw
it.
Add
in height.
Cut
to
this
Glue one
is
each
Be
inverted before
you begin.
It
should
upon
its
rim.
to the
box
to a
point
under the
[127]
of these at one
end of
kennel.
Where
roof.
is
a large flat
to
box cover?
It
is
to
be the
It
ought
box.
Diagram Three, , page 171.) Fold this cover downward in equal halves
and place
it
to
make
little
a slanting roof,
There
is
Whistle
Fidol
Come
to
made
dog?
for you.
would be fun
little
some day
make
china
Oh
I
where, oh where has my little dog gone! Oh, he hasn't gone far, for you see built him a kennel from out of a box, And now he stays home here with me!
[1281
pieces glued to
in place.
it
to hold a bent
BEAR'S
The Teddy Bear's wheelbarrow that you see In the picture was made from half of a candy box; some strips of cardboard made the legs and wheel supports, and a round pill-box made the wheel. Do you wish to make a wheelbarrow to play with? Perhaps your Teddy would like one. I will tell you how to make it, shall I?
First, take the
end rim
off.
This
is
strips
each a half-inch
Glue them
this,
After
wide and
Glue
these to the
forward
When
all
other side,
strip of
cardboard
in front.
Then,
you
like,
pin,
you
may have his toy to play with. My Teddy and I play at gardening with artificial flowers on the floor. Sometimes, I make flowers from
tissue-paper to use. Can't you
make them,
too?
One
A
It
a box, as
you can
see:
A little
It
garden that
a very
we
laid
was
happy day
this
The
time
we made
garden play.
[130]
Make
makes the
makes
a chair.
My dolls thought
I
had
a little
to
have an
office.
writer,
and
a telephone that
came
a favor, too.
You can buy these at any caterer's or at a candy store. One of my dolls was a stenographer. You can see her in the picture. Her name is Dosia Miss Dosia. The other doll is the bell boy or errand boy. To make a desk for the office, take the half of your
shoe-box.
corner.
Cut
legs in
its
From
(To cut
page
Diagram
Six,
it
D,
178.)
will
you
prefer, use
The
Paint
it
to
match
top, glue a
round pill-box.
cunning
Paint this
It
makes a very
The
high.
stand
easy to make.
The
plant on
it
was
favor, too.
It
is
The
stand
is
just a
box about
five inches
The
Just find
off
from
it
at
Bend the part that has no rim left on it upward to make the back of the chair, and cut the legs from the lower rim of the rest (To cut of the cover as you cut legs for the desk. It is fun to a chair, see Diagram Six, C, page 177.)
the center of one long side.
have a
doll's office.
is
With
It
at business.
to
What
be?
little doll's
school?
Maybe You
on, so
can see
my
to
office
boy
In
the picture.
it
His
was glued
he had
be impolite
[132]
though
made him
This is made fmni boxes, box covers, a spool and a wooden box.
The
Doll's
Couch Hammock.
It is
cut
it.
engage an
hat
boy,
iiDill
But mine
is
Bob.)
wish that
his hat
would come
off!
I make believe, when I'm at play, There is an office far away, And Mister China Doll goes there
And
I
sits
and dictates
in his chair.
made
It's right
upon
my
play-room
floor.
[133]
Required to
Make
Dolls'
Couch
box that
Hammock:
is
One seven or eight inches long will make a hammock for a doll the same length. Larger boxes may also be used. Some string is needed to make
deep.
ropes.
The
dolls'
couch
hammock
as
in the picture
is
easily
Shall I
you how
to
make
Take
that
it
is
half of a
box
and
turn
so that
opens
at top.
From
of the rim.
At each end of the box, run a string through a corner. Knot the two end strings that come on the ends of the box. Knot them together or tie them, so that
the
to
hammock may
it.
place
[134]
HOW TO MAKE
You may make
tissue-paper over
of your box.
A DOLLS'
HAMMOCK
by folding
the shape
fit
brown paper
still,
cut to
Better
a real little
mattress from
some canvas or
Cut
the cloth
your box.
with
Fold
bits of
and sew
it.
Then
paper torn
be
to shreds.
hammock may
made in the same way, using smaller dimensions. You can hang the hammock under the railing on the porch, or fasten it to the rungs of a chair when
you play Indoors with
be delighted
to
it.
am
this for
them.
If
you
make one
to use
Boys
ought
to
know how
as girls.
know how
boy ought
is
to sew.
(I
know
that
is
man who
going pretty
A
It
to
be able
to
sew
a mattress,
anyhow.
as easy as
making
marble-bag.
made
It's
a dollie's
hammock,
And you
[135]
Make
a Theater or
Punch
cover,
Show:
box and
its
a toy theater or
I tell
it
aside.
its
rests
upon
is
made
the top.
top, out-
Upon
line an
the
the box.
Measure
it
Its
top should
The
five
drawing
this,
refer to
Diagram Nine, A^ page 183.) Cut this oblong you have drawn
[136]
at
SHOW
top line.
Bend
ward
"stage."
Cut
this
out
you intend
to use for
actors
may
the stage.
to slip
through a fancy
Slip
You
may have
page 183.)
Diagram Nine, C,
Now,
board.
name on
you
the cardsee
it
Glue
in
the picture.
hide the
little
dolls'
Last of
all,
floor,
and
Show
it
so
little dolls in
(See
183.) dolls
may
long,
be cut
(For
Diagram
Six,
A^ page
175.)
Your wooden
I
actors
may
be penny
dolls, or
any jointed
dolls such as
in toy row-boats
used
to collect
all
my theater.
There
is
It
all, I
think.
had
in vaudeville there,
no end
the theater.
I If
made
you would
you how.
You. make
it
in this
way:
a pasteboard box,
that's
you know
You draw
a square
should go.
Now cut
Upon
Some
it
down
in.
It
!
cannot be denied
To
And
put these
you cut a
slit
[138]
is
made from
a deep letter-
cover.
The scenery
is
and
a doll.
The Merry-go-Round
a cardboard
is
roll
made from the covers of two round bandboxes, and penny cut-outs purchased at the children's
"penny store."
SHOW
see,
Mine
of things:
The fairy stories that I know; my sailor doll, here, And you can use the theater for fun in lots of ways
Give
lectures
sings.
[139]
Make
a sheet of
ing-tube or a hoop-stick.
a merry-go-round.
It
is
made
a mailing-
You
some pictures
of animals
five
Four or
to use.
A small
may
be
If
To
do
this, find a
some maga-
[140]
HOW
out.
They came
They
exactly fitted
the
bandbox merry-go-round
thin cardboard before
that I
made.
If
upon
you
start the
work
of
making
making
the toy
itself.
the merry-go-round.
this, first
To
construct
down through
Cut
bandbox cover
as the
mailing-tube, a third of
as
length, just
see
it
in the picture.
Now,
mounted on
thin card-
strips of
Glue them
equal intervals
inside.
To
When
Paper
merry-go-round will
figures cut
When
it is
made
and
the
to
it,
lifelike chargers.
two bandbox
covers,
I built a carousel;
you,
it
is
fun!
make
sun!
[142]
Box Automobile:
a
sample candy
box
from which
to
not difficult to
make
of mechanics to
Paste,
boxes
and
a pair of
hands
to
do the work,
The lower
body
of the car.
Take
box
off.
This
put
you care
to
one on.
Cut
off
the
box
each end.
[143]
This forms
windguard
of the automobile.
Remove
its
cover.
Cut
should go.
Cut
to the
box
in half also.
These
Cut four
compass
Use your
to outline
them
in pencil
first.
Make
each
When
This secures
the wheels.
to.
the guards.
tires.
They should be
[i44l
and
is
guards
make
to
the running-board.
to the front of the
Two
automobile
A
itself
toothpick
make
The wheel
upon
the
fitted
The
of
is
fitted
body
is
and glued
in place.
The
rear seat
fitted in the
same manner
into the
body
They
you care
to
add
hood
to the
automobile,
it
may
Cut the
front rim of the box cover down, and slant the long
sides of the cover dow^n to the
uncut end.
To
be
its
top, glue
box cover.
Two
may
fitted
under
hood up
in
front.
I
with India
made
out of a
that
it
was
else
a boxcraft model,
this car;
picnic
parties
Where
[146]
HOW TO FURNISH A
Material
DOLL-HOUSE
Furniture for a
all
Required to
Make
kinds, especial-
ence-card boxes.
in
may
be of help
making some
When
you look
my
all
boxcraft doll-
how
well
it
was furnished.
All
are
cut
You have just such boxes as I used, I am sure. Every home has them. Shall I tell you how the furniture is made? First, I will tell you how I made the bedroom, shall I? The old-fashioned canopy bedstead is made from a candy box and its cover. The four posts are long pencils. One pencil is run through each corner of the lower half of the box and glued tight. Then the
cover
is
to
make
a canopy.
Lace-paper
[147]
is
made a tall bureau from eight empty matchboxes. The match-boxes were safety-match boxes with tiny drawers that are made to slide in and
out.
I
saved
till
Then,
I I
glued
glued
same way.
When
legs,
were
dry, I pasted
my
a
two
sets together.
bureau.
To make
Diagram
top.
(For
bench, see
Six, yf
page 175.)
sewed shoe-
make
it
a handle.
The mirror
at the
a piece of
upright.
I painted
to
sides of the
cardboard
is
make
it
a strip of
The
birthday cake.
The wash-stand
about
a bench, only that
is
is
cut almost as
if it
were
The
"splasher"
a piece of
at the
back of
the box.
[148]
Mantel and
Settle
boxes.
HOW
Almost
TO FURNISH A DOLL-HOUSE
all
chairs
made were
Each
cut
from narrow
One
hat-pin
one.
chairs.
half
makes
Diagram
Six, C,
page 177.)
chairs.
Hat-pin
boxes will
covers
make high-backed
other kinds.
Other box
make
When you
cut an ordinary
chair with a low back, begin to cut the rim from the
side of
side.
When
rim
you make
a chair
from
off
The
part
without rim
is
ward, and cut the legs of the chair from the end that
has a rim left
I
upon
it.
made
a grandfather's clock
I
by standing
spend
a hat-pin
box on end.
of a
glued
to its
penny.
it
Just
mark
to
Really, I
am
It
is
not
make
one, for
it
is
easy.
You
(See
Diagram
page
179, for
making a
a bit of
The
music-rest
is
marked ofif with ink upon a strip of white paper and pasted upon the top of the narrow box. You can easily draw the first
is
it
on a
paper
to
make
piano's music-rest.
may
be
made from
Cut from
its
Diagram Six, G, page 180.) The Morris chair is made like any other chair. (See Diagram Six, C, page 177, for cutting a chair from a box.) It has two bent box rims glued to each side to make the arm rests, and the cardboard is cut
fireplace.
(See
in cutting
its
[150]
HOW TO
I
FURNISH A DOLL-HOUSE
little
made
very cute
It
cupboard for
easily
my
doll-
house dining-room.
was
made.
is
You
can
of any shallow
all
box that
like a spool
of
its
way around
front cover. I
them
across the
shelves.
to
make
ware.
from cardboard.
sideboard
half of a letter-
lengthwise.
Then
the
bench.
legs.
Do
up
box rim
front.
to
make
the
Outline a
front,
and paste
the cover of a
narrow box
buffet.
Of
best.
all
my
It looks so homelike.
I
were
a little doll,
know
make
candy on the
The
stove
[151]
At two
knobs.
sides of
its
front, I cut
oven
them
to
make
The prongs
of each paper-
fastener, bent,
make
At
the
I pasted
could put
dishes in
The
on
it.
is
I stood
ofif
mine
from
you
You You
tin,
if
how
is
made
merely
At
deeper box.
board.
a
The
faucets are
made from
kid
hair-curler
^
pressed
downward.
The
long
kitchen table
It
is
is
ence-card box.
legs.
cut as
if it
were
see
bench with
Six,
Diagram
in
A, page 175.)
You
your
doll-house,
You
[52]
The Dining-room.
dolls.
all
boxes.
The
boiler
is
a tin
box upon
a spool.
HOW
their sides.
TO FURNISH A DOLL-HOUSE
Put two upon the
floor
Of
course,
Each bandbox
make a room. You can use strips of wall-paper for carpets and rugs. You can cut windows in the bandboxes. When
you have furnished the doll-house,
like a real little
I
it
will be quite
home.
furniture with ink.
If
painted
my
you paint
to use
you
can.
In
this
will be evenly
colored.
you attempt
paint
it
play with
If
you
like,
you may
have made a
And
Oh, Oh,
a mantel, painted
red! too!
Bureaus, chairs,
I
a table,
is
gay,
Making
furniture this
way!
[53]
GAME,
the deep
Make
"Ringfling"
lower half of
Ringfling
is
a jolly
it.
game.
am
enjoy playing
As many children
can play
first
happily together
of the
may
The
rule
"The more, the merrier!" It takes but a moment to collect materials with which to play the game. The game itself may be
game
is,
or
of
less.
corner across
top.
(See
this
185.)
Do
Number
thenumerals,
section blank.
3 (one
numeral each).
Leave one
[>S4]
of "Ringfling."'
It
is
made with
compass or
it
Make
about
(See
Diagram Eleven, D,
a smaller ring just
page
Make
it
and cut
in the
of
the
game-board
down
first,
and be careful
down
The
them
in the picture.
Here
game:
who
will follow.
consists of a turn to
The
object of play
is
to
about a pencil.
it
When
The
number
that
is
upon
the game.
The
it
first
to
eighteen
To
avoid
dis-
pute,
from
game when he
When
I
am
I
playing
little
games,
I like to
do what's right;
do not win the game,
And when
1 try to
be polite!
['56]
Make
its
the
Game
of "Shoot
some
spools.
game may be played by two players. It is an easy game to make, as you can see by looking at the picture. It is made of two parts of
boxcraft
is
To make
long box
as
the game,
you
its
it.
see
it
Make two
openings in
roll
rim, each
wide enough
to let a spool
through
Stand
it
this
floor as
you
see
placed
in the picture.
Now, you
cover's rim
are ready to
make
at
the chutes.
at
Cut
the
each corner,
each end.
in a slanting position
box
[57]
Make two
to
Two
box.
of the
each player.
The game
the chutes,
it
to try to get
a spool in
by rolling
it
down
The
game
is
played in rounds.
The
first
player to reach
made
this little
game
myself,
made some
me.
And
[1^8]
"ONE-TWO-I-
Make "One-Two-I-Catchis
You"
a square
light.
and one
The
round pill-box.
(A
like a
board.
It
is
a tag
game on
gameit
in the house.
To make
your
ruler.
Rule a
line
from corner
to
corner across
a line that
box cover.
Then, rule
side.
This makes
Paint the
the
triangular
between, white.
(See
Two
[159]
game.
its
You
Glue
cover on
and put
its
number one on
to see
its
top and a
number two on
and
base.
Play
in turn,
toss the
counter
how
far
you
can move.
that
is
When
number
on
its
top and
move
as
many
triangles in either
Each player
begin the game.
Each button
is
placed in an opposite
try to catch
The
first
winner.
Throw
the counter,
Happily,
Who
is
winner.
Let us see!
Button here
And
button there,
I will catch
you!
[i6o]
Make
the
Funny Game
of
one simi-
two or three
is
spools.
Allow me
Box.
to
introduce to you
jolly.
He
in.
is
funny and he
if
throw
them
him.
Mister Box
is
I will tell
You can make a game like you how. You will need an empty
game.
It
size of a shoe-box.
should have a
Two
or three players
may
to
Each
will need an
empty spool
blue; one
One may be
if
Now,
to
Make
mouth
Cut out
the cardboard
inside the
mouth
you
make
a big
inches wide.
crayons,
if
You
like.
Now,
to
in turn, in the
floor rug,
Measure four
player
ruler lengths
Each must
Mister
Box.
till all
No
may
The
first
one
When
This
is
at play,
what
always say:
'You
If I
will
This
what
hope
I'll
say:
[162]
Make
other.
The magic box is truly a wonderful one. It will obey every command you give it yes, it will! There is a secret that you will have to learn, but when you know this secret the little box will have to do just as
you bid
it.
The magic box is on a string. As it descends, you cry, "Halt!" The box stops at once. "Go on!" you cry. The box continues down the string. "Faster, faster!" The box fairly flies in its haste to get down
to the floor!
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
to
Now,
let
me
tell
you how
do
it.
(It
is
a trick,
of course!)
Find a small
of a toothpick.
stick,
[163]
from one
of your boxes,
it,
and
the piece
it.
of
wood
so that there
is
space under
at
it
and above
wood
187.)
at
B.)
The SECRET of your magic box is wood in the drawer. Tell nobody about
you hold one end of the string
end and keep the string
slightly,
the piece of
this.
When
in
place the toe of your shoe on the floor over the other
taut.
up
as far as
When
it less
you loosen the hold upon the string you will notice that the box
make
tight,
slides rapidly
down
tising,
the string;
taut, the
one place.
By
prac-
how much
to
to loosen
your
make
the
box do
a^
you
[164]
HOW
Anyone who
box performing
so
wondermagic.
first,
its
Here
comes
it
is
a duplicate of the
this
Arrange
second box as
if
were
the trick
box
except
the drawer.
When
examine the
Keep both
you can
in
drawer
a little, so that
easily
by feeling
of them.
When
that
it is
you manage
say.
cleverly.
"Wonderful!
Wonderful!" they
you have!"
"What
MAGIC BOX
I
made a magic trick box! Oh, you may make one, But do not tell the secret That I am telling you
little
too,
The
It
is
Do
treasury of play.
[i6s]
BOXCRAFT
lED
WINDOWS
Diagram One.
box
as the
Cut
heavy black
limes indicate.
Fold outward
upon
A.
plain
window without
with blinds.
blinds or awning.
Cut
B.
Window
Cut
C.
Window with
make
the
[1 66]
DIAGRAM
D
DOORS
Diagram Two.
sides as the
Cut
box
heavy black
lines indicate.
lines.
Fold outward
Cut
at top
and side
(if
need be,
to
make
B.
its
a door.
Double door.
Fold both
Cut
and down
center.
also.)
C.
Cut out
a square
and
side.
[167]
SIDE WALLS.
CHIMNEY
Diagram Three.
form
side walls
chimney.
to
box ends.
Square cut
be inserted
AA. Box
through
its
may
opening.
[168]
DIAGRAM
GABLE ROOF.
IT
Diagram Three.
roof
pieces
made from two interlapped box covers. B. Gable roof made from two box covers. BB. Triangular cardboard pieces cut to
fit
the
[169]
A SINGLE GABLE
ROOF.
DOWN
TO HOLD
Diagram Three.
lengthwise, to
Gable
roof.
This
is
a piece of
its
center,
make
to
a slanting roof.
this roof
deep box
a
may
be cut
down
hold
and make
gabled
building.
C.
lines indicate.
a piece of plain
cardboard or
corrugated cardboard.
to
make
the
low
sides
and
[170]
DIAGRAM
ROUND-POINTED ROOF, TENT ROOF, INDIAN WIGWAM, AND CARDBOARD TENTS FOR CAMP
Diagram Three.
D.
edges X
to x.
is
Roofs.
The Indian
its
wigwam
center,
it
made
is
way.
E. This
rim cut up
on each long
side.
is
Bent,
makes
This
like the
kennel roof.
[17']
^
RAMPARTS FOR A CASTLE OR
FORT.
A SMALL ROOF TO
G.
porch roof
may
be
made by
it
taking the
way
of your building.
The porch
[172]
DIAGRAM
BRIDGE
AND
R.R.
TUNNEL
Diagram Four.
By
may
be made.
Cut where
A.
The bridge
is
made by
cutting a semicircle
A cardboard strip
pasted
to
The
tunnel
made by
[173]
rTTU
Diagram
Fold
to
it
Five.
its
Take
through
center once.
make
quarters.
Draw
the outline
Z on
the piece
is
in-
which
from
it
[174]
DIAGRAM
Six.
it is
inverted
show.
cutting to right and
bench form
made by
box.
Remove cardboard evenly from between these cuttings to make legs of the bench. AA. This is the cover of a box from which long
It
is
glued
to the
bench form
to
foot of a bed.
[>75]
DIAGRAM
Diagram
its
Six, C.
To make
stands
upon
Cut where
shown
in the diagram.
where
indicated.
[^77]
TABLES
Diagram
legs in the
Six.
shown by
form
D.
table cut
from
correspondence-card box.
Cut where
diagram.
shown
and
in the
DD.
glued
a spool
box
to its top.
[178]
DIAGRAM
Diagram
E.
Six.
lines
are indicated.
Glue
school desk
made by
upon one
see a
long rims.
line
Cut
in the
heavy black
is
in the
diagram.
fitted
below
make
to
a shelf.
F.
Glue
a larger
box that
is
long sides at yy
make
a piano
with keyboard.
[179]
FIREPLACE
AND MANTEL
Diagram
Six, G.
may have
Cut
as
long rims.
of the
box an opening
shown by
[.80]
DIAGRAM
PERGOLA
Diagram Seven.
inverted shoe-box.
is
made from an
box
is
of the
used.
Cut
the bottom
from
narrow rim
in the
shown
Mark
off pillars
upon
gram.
these as
shown by
Two
cardboard
glued lengthwise
left.
at
Strips of card-
board are crossed over the open top which was the
bottom of the box.
181I
Zoo
then placed
to
it.
to
The
disks.
[182]
DIAGRAM
DOLLS'
Diagram Nine.
cover.
The
theater
is
made from
its
deep
its
rims,
upon
The opening
is
cut
upon one
side of the
box
and bent inward where the dotted line is shown. This B is the stage opening through which the is the stage.
dolls are let
to
walk upon
the
stage
and
act.
like this
shown
in the
slit
shows the
Through
this,
postal-card
down upon
the stage.
[183]
upon
its
Rims
are cut
ofif
at
cover.
The
long rims
make
Cut the
B.
sleigh top
is
added
to a sled
by cutting the
cover of a box
sleigh.
to the
The lower
half of the
these.
In
diagram.
[184]
''RINGFLING/'
to
draw
game-board of "Ringfling."
its
top.
Number
B.
another
2.
Number
another
3.
Leave one
the one
is
section blank.
Cut two
rings
from cardboard
like
shown.
diagram.
Cut where
in the
Make
N.
DIAGRAM
A
B
is
is
the drawer.
At
its
is
the
its
magic
play.
Its
drawer
is
The box
Here's our
last
page!
We
say good-bye-
But we
To
And
THE END
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