Boxes; Children's literature; Handicraft; Paper work; Toys
Cut a door in one of these side walls, near its central part, where you
see the door in the picture of Boxville School. To make this, first take
pencil and ruler and make an oblong four inches high and two inches
wide. (To cut door, see Diagram Two, _A_, page 167.) Cut top line, down
one side line, and across the base line. Fold the door outward. The
cardboard under the door in the side wall may be cut out the shape of
the door space. If you do this, your door will bend open more easily.
If you happen to have a round-headed paper-fastener, press its pointed
prongs through the little door where a door-knob should go. The round
head of the paper-fastener will form a door-knob. Its prongs, bent to
one side, form the latch. It will catch the door securely when the
“door-knob” is turned.
Now that the lower part of the school building is finished, you may
begin upon the roof. This is the box cover. Place it upon the points of
the side walls so that it fits down upon them. You will readily see how
this is. (For placing a roof on a shoe-box building, see Diagram Three,
_AA_, page 168.)
When the roof is placed, you will be able to judge where the
chimney-hole should be cut in the box-cover roof. It should go near the
top at the end of the box that is opposite the door. The cover of some
narrow box which has a sliding inner drawer will make the chimney. It
will be just the right shape, square and hollow.
Mark off upon the sides of this box the bricks of the chimney. Color
them red, if you like. If you use a ruler, the work is easily and
quickly done. You do not need to mark the bricks unless you like. Your
box may be painted merely.
To place it on the roof, you will need to cut out of the school-house
roof a piece of cardboard the size of the end of your box. Decide where
the chimney should go. Mark the end of it with pencil upon the roof at
this point. Cut the cardboard out. (For cutting hole for chimney in a
box-cover roof, see Diagram 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 chimney box will form smoke.
Of course, you will be anxious to furnish your school-house inside. You
may make it like a real district school such as you see in the country.
It will have desks, benches, a stove, and a blackboard—to say nothing of
a teacher’s desk and chair!
The lower halves of the three small boxes form desks. It is really a
simple matter to 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. (For cutting a
desk out of a small oblong cardboard box, see Diagram Six, _E_, page
179.)
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