Draw a three-inch square on one short end of your box. Let its base come to the extreme edge of the box rim. This square is to be the door you see in the picture. Draw a vertical line down the center of this square. This gives two doors for the doorway. (To cut double door, see Diagram Two, _B_, page 167.) Cut across the top line and down the center to the outer rim. Bend outward the two halves of the doorway. The boat-house is to have windows, and each window is to have an awning over it. To make windows with awnings, first draw on each long side of your box, two one-inch squares. Each square should be drawn about an inch and a half from a corner of the box. Each square should be half-way between top and bottom of the building. (For windows with awnings, see Diagram One, _C_, page 166.) Cut down both side lines and across the base line. Bend the cut cardboard outward and upward to form an awning. Color this awning with red stripes, using your crayons or water-color paints. When all windows are cut, then you may place your little building at the rear of the shoe-box cover which forms the wharf. Over the top of your building, fit another shoe-box cover to form a projecting roof over the wharf. A long pencil will be a fine flagstaff. Run its point through the front of the boat-house roof, and glue to the top of the pencil a triangular piece of colored paper to make the pennant. My little Boxville people Have a club-house where they go When they want to do some fishing, Or they want to take a row. It stands beside a paper lake, Upon my play-room floor; It has some pretty awnings, And a dock, beside a door! Upon the lake float water toys. I put moss by the shore And pebbles: they make splendid rocks! Some day I’ll find some more! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE HOUSEBOAT “BOXCRAFT” =Material Required to Make a Houseboat=: the covers of two large shoe-boxes, and the lower half of a child’s shoe-box. Here is a jolly houseboat, the very thing to sail on Silver Paper Lake. Little dolls may spend their vacation upon it. Would you like to make a houseboat to play with? It is not difficult. First, take the two shoe-box covers and glue them top to top. Place them on the floor flat. There is the lower half of the houseboat.