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Now you are ready to furnish the inside of your church. Begin with the
platform for the pulpit. This is the box cover you have—the one about
three or four inches long. Place it where the platform should go,
opposite the door. The spool will be the pulpit. Paste a little round
cardboard disk over the opening at one end of the spool, and this will
be the top of the pulpit. Paint the spool black.
Use a long, narrow box cover for the pulpit chair. (See Diagram Six,
_C_, page 177.) Cut the rim from box cover, beginning near the center on
one long side. Cut till you have reached the point opposite. The part of
the cover from which the rim has been removed will be the back of the
chair. Bend it forward.
The other half of the cover will be the seat of the chair. Legs are cut
in the front rim and in the side rims that remain. To make front legs,
keep the corners of the box, and cut up to the part which is the seat,
the upper part of the cover. Remove the cardboard from between these two
cuttings. Then, make the back legs of the chair in the box rims at side.
Place the little chair back of the pulpit, and color it, if 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, _B_, page 176, for
making high-backed benches.)
With a pencil or pin-point, mark the center of each short rim on these
box covers. Then, taking one cover, cut through the rim at the two
points till you have reached the top of the cover. Half of the division
made will be for the back of the bench and half for the seat and the
legs. Cut the legs in one half as you cut the legs for the pulpit chair.
Remove from the other half of the cover the remaining end rim. Bend the
rim that is left at the top upward, to make the high back of the bench,
and color the bench to match the pulpit and chair.
[Illustration: Boxville Church is made from a shoe-box. Its bell-tower
is an oblong box. It has stained-glass windows of red tissue-paper.]
[Illustration: Boxville Church has a pulpit, a reading desk, and pews
that are made in boxcraft style from boxes and a spool.]
[Illustration: Boxville Railway Station is built from a shoe-box and
four shoe-box covers. Pencils are used for pillars that hold the long
roof of the platform in place.]
[Illustration: Inside view of Boxville Railway Station. This shows the
ticket booth made from a shallow box about four inches square.]
Place the benches one behind the other inside the church. Let the sexton
ring the bell for Sunday-school to begin. What was the lesson you had
last Sunday? Do you remember about it? Perhaps you might not so easily
forget _next_ Sunday’s lesson, if you taught it yourself to a class of
penny dolls in a Boxville Church like this. Anyway, you can _try_!
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