Boxes; Children's literature; Handicraft; Paper work; Toys
Now, take your animals mounted on thin cardboard and cut each out.
Cut narrow half-inch strips of cardboard for the poles of the animals.
Glue them at equal intervals around the rim of the upper bandbox cover,
inside. To their bases, glue the animals.
When you turn the top of the mailing-tube, the merry-go-round will
twirl.
Paper figures cut from colored magazine pictures may ride on the
merry-go-round. When it is made in a smaller size, china dolls may ride
on it, and wooden Noah’s Ark animals may be glued to the cardboard
strips to make very lifelike chargers.
With just two bandbox covers,
I built a carousel;
I cut some picture horses out—
For chargers they did well!
I gave some paper dolls a ride—
I tell you, it is fun!
I make believe a pleasure park
Is right here in the sun!
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MAKING A BOXCRAFT AUTOMOBILE
=Material Required to Build a Box Automobile=: a one-pound candy box
with cover, a sample candy box (oblong ten-cent size), one round box
three inches in diameter, about ten inches of cardboard from which to
cut wheels, four round-headed paper-clips for wheel-hubs, a toothpick
and a round cardboard key-tag for steering gear, two metal buttons for
lamps.
It is not difficult to make a box automobile, for nobody needs knowledge
of mechanics to do it. Paste, scissors, boxes—and a pair of hands to do
the work, these are all that you will need.
The lower half of the large oblong box forms the body of the car. Take
the cover of the box off. This will be used later for the hood, if you
care to put one on.
Cut off each long inner side rim of the box except for a corner at each
end. Leave the inner rim of both ends on the box untouched. This forms
the windguard in front and the back of the rear seat.
Paste the cover tight on your small sample candy box, and paste the box
end to one end of the body of the car you are building. This completes
the shape of the automobile.
Next, take your round box. Remove its cover. Cut the cover in half. This
forms the wheel-guards for rear wheels. Paste each where the rear guards
should go.
Cut the lower half of the box in half also. These halves are
wheel-guards for front wheels. Paste them to the forward part of the
automobile.
Cut four circles from your cardboard. Use your compass to outline them
in pencil first. Make each with a diameter of two inches.
When these are cut, run the points of a round-headed paper-fastener
through the center of each, and fasten the pointed prongs of the
paper-fastener to the cardboard of the wheel-guards. This secures the
wheels. If you prefer, you may glue the wheels to the guards. They
should be painted with spokes and tires.
[Illustration: Boxcraft Automobile with hood made of a box cover.]
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