Boxes; Children's literature; Handicraft; Paper work; Toys
Upon the front of your box, draw a large square four inches in size. Let
the base of this square come upon the outer rim of the box. The square
is to be the large double door of the garage. (To cut the door, see
Diagram Two, _B_, page 167.) Cut the top line. Cut the base line. From
top to base line cut another line dividing the doorway into halves to
form the doors.
The doors will fold outward when you have finished cutting them. Paint
them green, if you wish.
On each side of your box, you may draw a window with blinds. The window
should be two inches square, and should be placed in the center of each
side. Draw a line vertically from top to base of the window space to
make the divisions for the blinds. This line should divide the window
space evenly into halves. (To cut window with blinds, see Diagram One,
_C_, page 166.) Cut across the top of each window you have marked out.
Cut down its center line, and cut its base line. Press the cardboard
outward against the sides of the little building to make blinds. Color
the blinds to match the door.
There! The garage is finished. Wind up your toy automobile, and let us
see how nicely it runs right through the doorway!
Here is Boxville Garage—just the very toy
For an automobile owned by a small boy!
Takes a half a second just to cut a door
And two little windows. There is nothing more!
Anyone can make it, for the garage here
Is a box of cardboard. Isn’t it just _dear_!
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MAKING A BOXVILLE GARDEN
=Material Required to Make a Greenhouse=: the half of some deep box from
five to seven inches long and about five inches deep (the half of a box
such as is usually to be found at a hardware store), about twelve square
inches of cardboard from which to cut a roof, and a sheet of waxed
sandwich paper.
=Material Required to Make a Pergola=: half of a ordinary white
shoe-box, and a strip of cardboard about thirteen inches long and seven
inches wide.
=Material Required to Make the Garden Itself=: artificial flowers, some
spools for flower-stands, sand paper for roadway and gravel walks, a
penny mirror for a sunken-garden pool, boxes for benches, green crape
paper for grass, a long box to make a hedge, moss, pebbles, shells, and
pretty twigs from out-of-doors.
It is such fun to play in a garden that I made one for Boxville. It
belongs to Mr. Penny Doll’s residence. It has a pergola and a
greenhouse, a sunken pool, flower-stands, gravel walks, benches, and
everything that a garden _should_ have.
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