Boxes; Children's literature; Handicraft; Paper work; Toys
My Teddy and I play at gardening with artificial flowers on the floor.
Sometimes, I make flowers from tissue-paper to use. Can’t you make them,
too?
One day I cut for Teddy Bear
A wheelbarrow with greatest care.
It is a box, as you can see:
It made a ’barrow splendidly!
Some artificial flowers made
A little garden that we laid;
It was a very happy day
The time we made this garden play.
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OFFICE FURNITURE FOR DOLLS
=Material Required to Make the Office Furniture=: the end of the lower
half of a shoe-box makes the desk, a spool with a round box cover makes
the desk-stool, a high round box four inches high makes a flower-stand,
the cover of a box nine inches long makes a chair.
My dolls thought it would be fun to have an office. I had a little favor
that was made like a tiny typewriter, and a telephone that came as a
favor, too. You can buy these at any caterer’s or at a candy store.
One of my dolls was a stenographer. You can see her in the picture. Her
name is Dosia—Miss Dosia. The other doll is the bell boy or errand boy.
To make a desk for the office, take the half of your shoe-box. Cut legs
in its forward rim, leaving each corner. From the side rims cut the two
rear legs. (To cut table or flat office desk, see Diagram Six, _D_, page
178.) Paint the desk with India ink and it will look like the one in the
picture. If you prefer, use paint, but be careful not to use the paint
too moist.
The spool makes the desk-stool. Paint it to match the desk, and stand it
on end. Over the top, glue a round pill-box. Paint this also. It makes a
very cunning stool for a doll eight inches in height.
The stand is easy to make. The plant on it was a favor, too. The stand
is just a box about five inches high. It is put on end and painted.
The chair takes no time at all to cut. Just find the cover of a box
about eight or nine inches long. Cut the rim off from it half-way
around, starting at the center of one long side. Bend the part that has
no rim left on it upward to make the back of the chair, and cut the legs
from the lower rim of the rest of the cover as you cut legs for the
desk. (To cut a chair, see Diagram Six, _C_, page 177.) It is fun to
have a doll’s office. With it you can play at business. What is your
business going to be? Are you going to be a lawyer, or the principal of
a little doll’s school? Maybe yours will be a real estate office for
Boxville!
[Illustration: Office Furniture for Dolls. This is made from boxes, box
covers, a spool and a wooden box.]
[Illustration: The Doll’s Couch Hammock. It is cut from the cover of a
hardware box.]
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