Boxes; Children's literature; Handicraft; Paper work; Toys
Over the front door you may make a flat roof. (See Diagram Three, _G_,
page 172.) Use for it a narrow box cover. Glue one long rim of this
cover to the cardboard over your doorway. Press a pencil point downward
through each forward corner of the cover to make a pillar. The pencil
points may be secured in the holes of two spools and thus keep the roof
upright. If you wish, you may glue the spools where they should go.
Cut a narrow strip of cardboard and write the name of your hotel upon
it. Glue this over the doorway.
Flower-stands for the hotel veranda are simple things to make. One spool
will be needed for each flower-stand. Press the stems of some artificial
flowers into the hole of the spool. If you have gilt paint, you can gild
the stands. I painted mine with black water-color paint.
Penny dolls make guests for the hotel. They come already dressed, but
you can take one or two of yours and dress them like men dolls. I inked
mine. You can see them in the picture.
How are you going to play _inside_ the hotel? If you look at the second
picture of the hotel, you will see that it is the back of the box, and
that each corner at the back of the box has been cut. When this is done,
the back lets down. You can cut your hotel building this way. As you
see, it may be closed up again, when you are not playing inside.
Partitions for downstairs rooms are made with two shoe-boxes—just their
lower half is used. Cut the ends off each box. Place each lengthwise
inside the hotel so that there is a space between them. This space forms
the hotel hallway.
Cut a piece of cardboard to fit into your box and put it over the top of
these two shoe-boxes. It forms the floor for the second-story rooms.
Another shoe-box—or two, if you prefer—makes partitions for second-story
rooms.
Doors may be cut in these partitions. (For cutting a single door space,
see Diagram Two, _A_, page 167.)
Samples of wall-paper make good carpet for the hotel. You may cut it
into squares to make rugs.
Window curtains may be made from tissue-paper or lace-paper.
The furniture, itself, is cut from very small boxes. Tables are made
with spools.
The lower half of a small oblong box may be cut to form a chair by
removing its rim, half-way around—beginning to cut the rim at the center
of one long side of the box. The part from which the rim is removed is
the back of the chair. Press its cardboard upward. The part that has the
rim left upon it is the seat of the chair, and legs are cut at its two
front corners and in each side at the rear. (See Diagram Six, _C_, page
177, for making a chair.)
Place a pill-box over an upright spool to make a table. Round pill-boxes
make round tables. Square boxes make square tables. (See Diagram Six,
_DD_, page 178.)
An oblong pill-box rested on its side will form a doll’s bureau. Mark
off the drawers upon its front, and glue a strip of cardboard, upright,
at its rear. Paint a mirror frame on the strip of cardboard.
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