Boxes; Children's literature; Handicraft; Paper work; Toys
Cut a church door in one of these sides. Make it rather high—about the
height of the church windows. Let the base of the door come at the lower
edge of the side wall. Cut up through the cardboard vertically for about
three inches. Then cut the arch of the door and bend as if it were on a
hinge. (See Diagram Two, _A_, page 167, for cutting door.)
Paste each side wall in place on the box building so that the points of
each come at the rear of the box. When the side walls are firmly dry,
cut out the cardboard that is under the door space of the side wall. The
roof is not quite ready to go on yet, however. You will first need to
arrange for the steeple or bell-tower.
Take the cover of your shoe-box and also the oblong box you intend to
use for a steeple. This may be either a long candy box, such as
chocolate peppermints are often sold in drug stores, or it may be a box
such as jewelers use for hat-pins. The tower of the church should come
over the door. Near the top corner of the shoe-box cover which is to be
the roof of the church, mark off the shape of one end of the oblong box
which is to be the tower. Cut out this square from the shoe-box roof,
and cut out about a quarter of an inch more at the bottom, otherwise
your steeple will not stand exactly straight.
Now, slip the roof over the points of the side walls. See! that is it!
And, next, slip the tower in place down through the opening which comes
in the roof over the door. (See Diagram Three, _AA_, page 168.)
If your tower is to have a bell, you can buy a bell at almost any toy
store. It will probably cost you a penny. You will need to cut openings
in the upper part of the bell-tower box. Cut one on each side, as you
see it in the picture of my Boxville Church. The belfry windows will be
cut like ordinary square windows, except for a point at the top. (For
cutting plain windows, see Diagram One, _A_, page 166.)
The bell is next tied like a locket to a double cord or bit of string.
One end of this string is used to fasten the bell to the top of the
tower. It is sewed, with the help of a large darning-needle, to the
cardboard top of the belfry. The other end of the cord will be the
bell-rope, and this goes down through the cardboard at the base of your
tower box and through the cardboard at the top of the shoe-box building.
It can be threaded to the darning-needle and pressed through the holes
made by the needle till its end hangs down into the church vestibule, as
you see it in the picture. When you let the sexton pull this bell-rope,
ding, ding goes the bell, and the noise that it makes is just the right
size for a Boxville Church!
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