[Illustration: This is Boxtown Zoo. Its cages are cut from shoe-boxes. Box rims are used to make enclosures for the animals.] [Illustration: Boxtown’s Hose House. It is made from a deep square box. The roof is the cover of another box.] When you start to build your zoo, the cages will be made from boxes. Cut out a large square from each side of the rim. Toothpicks make bars for cages. They will need to be pressed down: through the top of the box over openings you cut in the box rims. If you have no toothpicks, you may make bars for the cages by pasting very narrow strips of paper or cardboard inside the box cages over the openings in the box rims. (For cutting a zoo cage, see Diagram Eight, page 182.) Dens for animals are boxes that have their covers taken off. These boxes must be turned over to stand on their upper rims. Doors are cut in the edge of box rims, as you see them in the picture. Rims cut from box covers make fences for enclosures. Little box covers make feeding-troughs. “Do not worry the animals!” This is the rule of all zoos. I have a lion, and a bear, I have a tiger, too! A monkey, and a “nelephant,” And so I made a zoo! I put a tiger in a cage, An’, if you’re good to-day, I’ll show you how I made it, For it’s lots of fun to play. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOXTOWN HOSE HOUSE =Material Required for Making a Hose House=: a box deep and square, about six or seven inches long, and the shallow square cover of some larger box. If you own a toy fire-engine or a hook and ladder, there is every reason why it should have a home. The engine-house that you see in the picture is made from a deep, square box. It is quickly made by cutting a square doorway in one side of the box rim and by adding a flat roof. Turn your box over so that it rests inverted upon its rims. Outline a three- or four-inch square on one end of your box. Its base must come at the edge of your cardboard box rim. Draw a line down the center of this square, vertically. Cut with scissors up this line and across the top line. This gives two doors, that should be pressed outward against the sides of your box. (See Diagram Two, _B_, page 167, for making the double doorway.) Place over the top of the box the cover of a larger box, and the hose house will be finished. Why, it took you no time at all to do that, did it? Let’s see how the toy engine looks inside its new building! I have a little engine, And it clangs across the floor Right into Boxville Hose House, Where they’ve opened wide its door. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO MAKE A WIGWAM