Boxes; Children's literature; Handicraft; Paper work; Toys
If you wish to make more than one bridge, you may easily do so. The
shape of your box, whether deep or shallow, will make a different kind
of bridge. The landscape of your Boxville may be as full of silver paper
streams and foot-bridges, railway bridges, covered bridges,
toll-bridges, as you please!
London Bridge may fall down,
But my Box Bridge stands true!
I’d rather own a Boxville Bridge
That stands up—wouldn’t you?
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BUILDING A TOY WINDMILL
=Material Required for Making a Windmill=: a box made with curved sides
about five inches deep, a half-sheet of cardboard, and a long pencil.
From any deep box with round sides, you may make a windmill. You will
not need the cover of the box. Remove it, and turn the lower half of the
box over to stand upon its upper rim so that its top becomes its base.
Cut a small door about an inch high in the edge of the lower box rim,
just as you see it in the picture of my box windmill.
On its rim, farther up, cut a narrow window. A half-inch square cut out
in the box rim will make this.
The roof of the windmill is round and pointed. It is to be made from
cardboard. To make it, take your compass and draw a circle twice the
size of the round base of your box—or about that. Cut this circle out of
the cardboard, and from it remove a quarter piece like a large slice cut
from a pie. (See Diagram Three, _D_, page 171.)
Next, lap one edge of your three-quarter circle over its opposite side.
Glue it so. This gives the round, pointed roof. Paint it, if you wish,
with your paints. Color it bright red or brown.
Sails for windmill need to be cut from a paper pattern. This pattern
must be made from soft paper that may be folded easily. Pad paper will
answer. Cut a square of pad paper that is half the height of your
windmill. Fold this square together to make halves—then again to make
quarter-sections. Cut in the folded quarter-section the figure shown for
shaping windmill sails. (See Diagram Five, _Z_, page 174.) Then unfold
your paper, and, placing it upon cardboard, outline all around its edge
with pencil. Then, cut the outline out. This is the sail piece for your
windmill. (For shape of pattern for windmill sails, see Diagram Five,
_ZZ_.)
Make a hole through its center. Press through it the point of a long
pencil.
Make two holes in your box, near the top, below the roof—one hole
exactly opposite the other. Run the pencil point through these holes.
There! The sails are in place!
[Illustration: The Windmill is made from a round box. Its roof and sails
are cardboard.]
[Illustration: The Boxville Barn and Farmyard. The roof of the barn is
made of two shoe-box covers. The fence for the Barnyard is made of a box
rim.]
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