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Where is your toy cart? Shall it go cantering over Box Bridge to the
mill with some corn from Boxville Farm? What a windy day it must be when
the windmill sails turn so fast!
I built a little windmill,
Its sails went round an’ round;
The miller was a tumble toy,
The mill, a box I found.
The roof is made of paper,
The sails are paper, too:
It is easy work to make one,
And it’s lots of fun to do!
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BOXVILLE BARN AND FARMYARD
=Material Required to Make a Barn and Farmyard=: the lower half of a
large shoe-box and two shoe-box covers that fit it, a ten-inch square of
cardboard, and the rims cut from a shallow box.
Farms are such very interesting places that I am sure you will enjoy
knowing how to make one with a big barn and a farmyard where your toy
animals may be kept.
You may easily make a barn like the one in the picture. You will need to
have a shoe-box to make the building. Two shoe-box covers make its
gabled roof. Some cardboard is needed from which to cut supports for the
roof.
Begin by turning your box over upon its rim so that its top becomes the
base of the barn.
In one end of the barn, cut a double door. To make this, first mark a
three-inch square upon an end of your box. Draw a line down its center,
vertically. (For double door, see Diagram Two, _B_, page 167.) Cut the
top line and down the center line. The base of your door should be at
the edge of the box rim. The two sections cut in the cardboard make the
doors. Press each outward.
Next, you will need to make the two triangular supports for the
box-cover roof. These supports must be cut from cardboard, and each must
be the width of an end of your box, and be made as high as your box is
wide. (For cutting these supports for a gabled roof, see Diagram Three,
_BB_, page 169.) Glue one to each end of your box, at the upper part.
The roof is made from your two box covers lapped one rim under the
other, lengthwise, to form a gabled roof shape. The upper part is glued
rim under rim. (See Diagram Three, _B_.) Let the roof dry, and then slip
it over the triangular supports pasted at each end of the box building
to hold the roof in place.
Cut a little weather-vane from a strip of cardboard, if you like, and
paste it to the front of the barn roof.
The farmyard is made from box rims cut from any shallow cardboard box
you have. The box rims stand if you cut them with corners. They make a
good enclosure.
A small box, placed on end, will make a shed. The cover of a small box
will make a drinking-trough. Little boxes make chicken-coops.
Mrs. Tumble Toy lives on my farm. You see her in the picture. Her
husband’s name is Bill. He is chasing the pig. You can see him, too.
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