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Green crape paper placed upon the floor will make the garden lawn.
Sandpaper cut in strips and laid upon it forms the garden paths. A
roadway may be made from sandpaper too. If you have none, ordinary brown
paper will answer. A long box covered over with green crape paper looks
just like a garden hedge. The paper should be pasted over the sides of
the box quite flat. Garden stands are made by gilding spools and then
poking into each spool, as it stands upright, some artificial flowers.
Greenhouse for the garden is made from the deep half of some box about
seven inches long and five inches deep. If you like, your greenhouse may
be made smaller, but this size is an easy one to handle.
The box itself forms the greenhouse building. Its roof is of bent
cardboard, and the glass in it is waxed sandwich paper.
Shall I tell you how to make the greenhouse so that you may make one
like it? First, take the half of the box you intend to use and place it
upon its rims, open at base.
Next, one inch above the base, on each corner make a pencil dot.
Cut the top off the rims of your box.
On each _end_ rim, at center, make a pencil dot to indicate the middle
top of each box end. (Leave sides without marks.)
From the center top point on each end cut down diagonally to right and
left, to form the peaked part of the building under the roof. (See
Diagram Three, _CC_, page 170.)
Then, cut the long sides of the box to meet these, lengthwise. Remove
the cardboard at the top of each long side.
Now, in the point at one end of the lower half of the greenhouse
building, cut out windows. Cut them to fit your box building. (See
Diagram One, _A_, page 166, for windows.) Back of each, paste some
transparent waxed sandwich paper. If you like, cut a triangular window
in the point of the building which is to be under the roof.
Between the lower two windows, cut a door to fit—one inch wide and two
inches high should be a good size. (For cutting a door, see Diagram Two,
_A_, page 167.)
You may make the roof two inches longer and four inches wider than the
size of the base of your box. Cut this roof from your cardboard. Fold it
through the center of its long sides to make a gable roof. (See Diagram
Three, _C_, page 170.)
In each side of this roof, cut out windows. Paste back of their openings
some waxed sandwich paper.
Glue the roof to the lower half of the building.
Any small boxes that you have will form flower-boxes when filled with
small artificial flowers. They may go into the greenhouse.
To make the pergola, you will need the lower half of a white shoe-box.
Take the box and stand it upon its rims, base at top, opening below.
Cut out the cardboard that was the bottom of the box, leaving a narrow
rim around this between corners on the side that was this box bottom.
Then, cut off each end of the box, leaving the margin around corners and
top rim like this first cutting in the box.
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