[Illustration: Bandbox Hotel has an opening at the back so that one may play inside easily. Partitions of rooms are made with shoe-boxes from which end rims have been removed.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOTEL BANDBOX AND HOW TO FURNISH IT =Material Required to Make a Hotel Bandbox=: one large bandbox with its cover, the cover of another square bandbox that is larger. These make the building and its roof. A shallow box cover will make the roof over the front door. Two long pencils are pillars. The hotel is furnished with furniture cut from small boxes. Spools, lace-paper, pinwheel paper, bits of wall-paper, and the glacine paper covers from books may all be used. Did you ever before hear of a dolls’ hotel? If you look at the picture of Hotel Bandbox, you will see one that may be made from a square hat-box. Its porch is a large hat-box cover. The building is a hat-box, smaller than this cover. The roof of the hotel is the cover of the hat-box itself. Windows and front door are cut in the rims of the bandbox. In starting to make a hotel, begin by marking off windows. Each window must be two inches wide and three inches high. It will help you to place windows evenly if you mark a horizontal line around three sides of your bandbox about three inches from the top of the box. Use a ruler, and make all marks as light as possible. They are only intended to guide 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 line forms the base of windows. Next, make the windows that come nearest each corner of the box. Measure two inches from each corner. This gives the right spacing from the corner. Measure two inches more on your horizontal line at the top of the building, and this will give the width of a window. Make the end windows first. Then make the ones that come between. Space evenly, so that windows may come at regular intervals. Cut out each window on all four sides. (For cutting a window, see Diagram One, _A_, page 166.) Arrange your lower story windows as you have the upper ones. At the center upon the front of your building outline a large double door four inches square. It should come at the very base of bandbox. (To cut double door, see Diagram Two, _B_, page 167.) Cut its top line. Cut its base line. Cut the cardboard between these two lines in half vertically to make the door. When windows and door are made, then you may paste some three-inch squares of glacine paper back of each window inside the box. The window-glass is made this way. If you like, you may leave some windows open. The building is ready, now, to stand upon the larger bandbox cover. As you see, this makes a porch. Place the smaller bandbox cover over the upper part of your hat-box to make a flat roof.