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=Material Required to Make the Wigwam=: half a round bandbox cover and a
few small sticks or pencils.
Why, of course, you may make an Indian wigwam! It will take about two
minutes to make one like this one in the picture. With it, you may play
all kinds of Indian plays. It will be ever such fun! You will need half
an old bandbox cover to help make the wigwam. The cover must be a round
one.
One bandbox cover will make two wigwams. Cut the cover into halves. Take
one of these and lap its edges to form a cone. Glue or sew these edges
together.
Cut off the point of the cone. This makes the opening at top of the
wigwam.
[Illustration: The Indian Wigwam is cut from half of a round bandbox
cover.]
[Illustration: This is Fort Box. It is made from a deep box and its
cover.]
In the rim of the bent bandbox cone, cut a flap, and bend this back
against the outer side of the tent. Stand the tent up upon its broad
base, and there will be its entrance. Small sticks or thin pencils may
be thrust through the top to make tent sticks. Indian symbols may be
painted on the sides of the tent.
I had an Indian doll, Big Chief Ten-Cent Store. He came in a canoe made
of wood. I made a green woods for him out of crape paper, and he lived
near a silver paper spring upon my play-room floor in his home.
All the toy animals that I have played in the woods and Big Chief
Ten-Cent Store hunted them. There was a deer that came off our Christmas
tree, and a whole family of china bunnies, and—and you just ought to see
him on the trail of Noah’s Ark animals! And—and you ought to see the
lovely mats that are inside the Indian’s tent. I made them at
Kindergarten myself.
By the shores of Abigmirror,
By the shining of its water,
Stood the wigwam of Big Box Chief,
Builded from a half a bandbox.
Dark behind it rose a mountain
Made of paper-covered boxes:
There were pebble rocks upon it,
Caverns where Big Box Chief hunted.
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FORT BOX
=Material Required to Make a Box Fort=: a deep, square box with its
cover. A round hair-pin box and a spool will make a cannon for the fort.
Would you like to make a fort for your leaden soldiers? Shall I tell you
how to do it? If your soldiers are small, a box three inches deep may
answer for the building. Its cover forms ramparts of the fort.
To start the building of your fort, turn your box over upon its rims so
that its base becomes the top of the building. Take the box cover off
and lay it aside.
Find a pencil and mark the openings for guns. They are made like windows
upon the box front. Draw each about a half-inch square, and use your
ruler to make each opening even. Cut these squares out, if you wish.
They may also be painted black, should you prefer not to cut them out.
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