Boxes; Children's literature; Handicraft; Paper work; Toys
You will need a bench at either end of the station waiting-room. Cut
these from covers of two boxes three inches long. (For cutting benches,
see Diagram Three, _AA_, page 176.) With pencil or pin-point mark a dot
at the center of each short end rim of the covers, and cut through each
rim thus marked till you have reached the top of the cover. Half of each
division so made will be the high back of the bench. Half will form the
seat and legs. Cut legs in the rim of one end. Leave the corners at the
front of the bench and remove the cardboard that is between them, making
your cutting to the right and left of each front corner. Then cut the
rear legs in both side rims. Bend the other half of each box upward.
This is to be the high back. Cut off the little pieces of cardboard that
are left on the narrow end rims. Bend what is left of the cover’s rim
upward to make the rest of the high back for each bench. Color the
benches black or brown.
Toot-too! Don’t you hear the whistle of the toy train? The baggage, that
is made up of boxes, is waiting on the station platform, and the little
dolls are ready to start on their travels.
Miss Doll is waiting on the station platform. She has just purchased her
return ticket to Boxtown.
Boxtown is the next stop. Everybody goes there on Circus Day—Mr. Doll,
Mr. Mulligan, Mr. Swartzenheimer, Polly Ann, Susan Smith, _all_ the
Noahs! The station platform is crowded!
When all the sky is dark with storm,
Then with my train I play.
I build a Boxville Station,
And I stay indoors all day.
It is always pleasant weather
When you’re happy as can be;
And when I’m playing Boxville,
There’s no storm that _I_ can see!
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B. R. R. FREIGHT STATION AND SHOE-BOX TUNNEL
=Material Required to Make a Boxville Freight Station=: one shoe-box
cover, one shallow cover of a box about eight or nine inches long and
seven or eight inches wide, and the lower half of a deep box about six
inches long and four or five inches wide.
=Material Required to Make a Dark Tunnel for B. V. R. R.=: the lower
half of an ordinary shoe-box.
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