Boxes; Children's literature; Handicraft; Paper work; Toys
Doesn’t the box begin to look like a real house? Yes! But it has no roof
yet! Where is the cover of your box? Slip it down over the building.
There you are! The cover of a small drawer-like pill-box will make a
fine chimney. Glue it on end to the top of the roof at the center.
Where is the flat letter-box cover? That is to be the porch. Place it on
the floor or table, and then brush the rims of the box that is your
Boxville Residence with paste or glue so that it will stand well back
upon this veranda. Be careful not to have any paste under the door. See,
there is the front porch. The veranda railing is just a box rim cut from
a box and pasted to the edge of the veranda on the cover of the
letter-paper box.
If you wish to have a step up to the front porch, a small box or its
cover will make this.
My Boxville Residence has a garden. Mrs. Doll is very fond of gardens,
and so is Mr. Doll also. I made the garden from a wreath of flowers that
was on an old summer hat. I made an arbor. It was easy to make that. The
arbor is cut from a candy box. It is just half the rim. I stood it up on
its ends and trimmed it with the flowers. Of course, if you play
out-of-doors with your Boxville Residence, you can have real flowers to
play with. You can lay out walks with pebbles and gravel when you do not
play in the house. I made a fountain or a pool for the garden from a
hand-glass. At almost any penny store you can buy a little round mirror
that will make a garden pool. You can make a sun-dial also. It is a
spool with a pill-box placed over one end of it. You will have to mark
off the face of the sun-dial with pencil.
Don’t you think that this makes a comfortable home for a Boxville
resident? I do. I almost wish I were a little doll, so that I might open
the front door and begin furnishing the inside of the house with box
furniture and spools.
’Mid pleasures and palaces where’er you may roam,
There is no place like Boxville for a little doll’s home!
A charm from the fairies seems magic play there,
Which, seek through the world, is ne’er met elsewhere.
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THE BOXVILLE GARAGE OR STABLE
=Material Required to Make a Boxville Garage or Stable=: one deep
letter-paper box with its cover.
Here is a toy garage. It belongs to the residence of Mr. Doll of
Boxville. Would you like to make a garage like it?
The box you will need to use for making a garage must be deep and
square. Place it upon the table standing upon its rims. Then, the bottom
of the box will become the top of your building, and you may place the
cover over this and glue it to make a flat roof.
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