All kinds of Halloween figures that are little favors will answer splendidly for this fairy boxcraft play. You can easily find dwarfs, gnomes, goblins, witches, elves. Oh, it will be fun, I know! [Illustration: A Fairyland Castle made from a round box and its cover.] [Illustration: A Fairy House made of a box covered with goodies.] [Illustration: Building Blocks and Box Building with small boxes.] [Illustration: Building Animals and Box People from a collection of boxes.] In summer you can go out into the garden and gather hollyhocks. The flowers make real little flower ladies—just _like_ fairies dressed up in red, and pink, and white dresses to go to a party. The buds of the hollyhocks make the heads for the ladies, and you just stick a pin through these and press it down at the base of the full blown flower to make the fairy lady. Acorns make fairy dishes too—did you ever happen to know _that_! Once there lived a dolly princess, with soft, flaxen, curly hair, By a cruel spell imprisoned near a Chinese dragon’s lair. Day and night her pasteboard tower, dragon-guarded, you’ll agree, Offered ill to those in Toyland who would set the Princess free. Many little dolls essayed it—in a truly frightful way They were gobbled by the dragon one and all, I hate to say! But there came a leaden soldier, all in tinfoil armor dressed; Bravely on his steed he bore him, valiant, in his chosen quest. At his blow, the green tin dragon toppled over, vanquished quite, And the rescued dolly princess was set free, then, by her Knight. King and Queen, they reign in Playtown even to this very day, And they live forever happy, as the fairy stories say! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOXES USED AS BLOCKS =Material Required for Block Building=: an assortment of boxes varied in size and shape. Building with blocks is always fun, as you know. You have tried it with cubes, and with dominoes, and with cards—but did you ever try to build with boxes in the same way? The boxes do not need to be glued. Their covers may or may not be used. Small boxes make walls, and box covers form roofs. You will see a tall block building in the picture. It was made from small drug-store boxes. There is really no end to the ways in which you may build with these. From boxes of uneven size, men and animals may be made. Round boxes or small oblong boxes form heads. Larger boxes make bodies. Legs and arms are boxes of equal size. The faces are drawn with pencil upon the back of boxes where there is no print. A wire hair-pin will keep the arms in place. It will need to be pressed through the box sides and bent so that the arm boxes may be slipped upon it. Men of all sorts may be made. There is great variety, as forms vary with the shape and size of boxes that you use.