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You will need a grove of trees near the shore of your lake. These trees
are made by standing some clothes-pins on end with forks in the air. Cut
some green paper and press it in between the forks. It makes the foliage
of trees.
The tents are made from the half of a shallow white box like a
letter-paper box. To make a tent, cut through each long side rim of your
box as far as the top or bottom of the cover, as the case may be. Bend
the box downward to each side of this cutting, making a tent roof,
slanting to each side downward. (For cutting a tent, see Diagram Three,
_E_, page 171.)
You may have as many tents in your camp as you like. Perhaps your tin
soldiers might like an encampment on the shores of Mirror Lake. Small
oblong box covers will make smaller tents for these. When it is summer,
maybe it would be nice, on some warm, sunny day, to take the tents
outdoors under the trees on the lawn and make a really true camp on the
really true grass, with real growing things for trees in a woods.
Perhaps so!
Cut bits of twigs and use these for trees. Pebbles will help to make a
rocky shore for a _real_ water lake that is a shallow pie-plate filled
with water. Its sides should be covered with moss or short grass. Of
course, after playing out-of-doors with the camp buildings, you will
have to pick them up, when playtime is over, for the cardboard tents
will be spoiled if you let them stay out over night. I know it because I
tried it! I had a really darling little doll and I let her stay out in a
tent after my play was finished. It rained in the night and she was all
spoiled—and I had to make a new tent, too. I think you’ll like to know
about this so you won’t try it. It really is better to pick up after
play, I think!
I made a grove of clothes-pin trees,
And had a splendid time with these!
My china rabbits ran in play
Beneath the trees the whole long day!
I made some little camp tents, too—
It was a jolly thing to do!
Some penny dolls a picnic laid
Beneath the green crape-paper shade.
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THE GIPSY CART OF BOXVILLE HIGHWAY
=Material Required to Make a Toy Gipsy Cart=: a deep oblong box such as
correspondence cards are packed in, also five square inches of
cardboard, four round-headed paper-fasteners, and two small boxes.
Do you think it would be fun to make a gipsy wagon like the one in the
picture? It is a very simple thing to make.
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