Have you some toys that would like to live on your farm? Cock-a-doodle-doo! Just run and fetch some glue, Some scissors, and a shoe-box: We’ll make a farm for you! Cock-a-doodle-doo! When all the work is through, We’ll have a little farmyard With a fence around it, too! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOX BROTHERS’ ANIMAL SHOW =Material Required to Make an Animal Show=: small boxes of all shapes and sizes, spools, and candy-box favors, a round bandbox cover to make a circus ring. The cover of a round bandbox will make a splendid circus ring. Any small boxes and spools you may have can be the benches for your trained animals to perform upon. A really good circus may be made with Noah’s Ark animals, or with the candy-box favors that come to one at Christmas and other holiday times. Shall I tell you how I made my circus? You can make one like it. First of all, I collected animals. At a small candy shop, I found a polar bear, a rhinoceros, a fox, and a pig. Each came with a loose head, because the animals were supposed to be filled with candy, but I glued the heads on tight. I bought these animals because they were so cheap. They could stand upon spools to make acts for the circus ring. I painted each spool red, and pasted over its hole a disk of colored cardboard. From round box covers I made pyramids, and from square ones I cut benches. (To cut bench for animal show, see Diagram Six, _A_, page 175.) Cut a leg at each corner of the box-cover’s rim. Remove the cardboard from between cuttings. Swartzenheimer and Mulligan were my animal trainers. Each came to me as a dinner favor. They were both little figures of toy men that stood upon a cake of sweet chocolate. You can easily see what a splendid clown Mulligan made. The animals performed all kinds of tricks. They could stand upon each other’s backs. I had two or three tumble toys, besides. They performed splendidly. I am sure you will have a good time making a circus. It is ever and ever so much fun, I think. You can use any animals that you happen to have among your playthings. [Illustration: Benches for performing animals at Box Brothers’ Circus are made from an assortment of cardboard boxes and spools. The cover of a large round bandbox makes a circus ring.] [Illustration: This is Box Brothers’ Circus. It is made from the lower part of a round white bandbox.] [Illustration: A view taken inside the Circus Grounds. The walls are corrugated cardboard. The cages are boxes with covers; and the booth is the lower half of a candy box.]