See how this table is made from a box like a cube without a cover. Make one.
Look at this stove, and at the one in the play house. We can make such a stove.
Make a solid cube of stiff black paper. Cut pieces for doors, covers, grate, hearth and pipe. Paste them on. The bottom is a very low box with a little larger face than the cube. Make one. If you like, cut out the sides to leave wide legs. Paste the bottom of the stove on this base.
Fold, cut, and paste an eight-inch square to make a square prism for the seat.
Cut a sheet six inches by eight inches.
Fold and crease two inches from each short edge. Shape the sides. Fold around the seat. Paste.
To make a short book-mark, fold four strips ten inches long into double five-inch strips. Hold two of them side by side in the left hand, with the open ends of the outer strip at the top, and the open ends of the inner strip at the bottom.
With a third strip in the right hand, pass its two parts around the outer strip in the left hand. Pass its two ends between the two parts of the inner strip.
Then hold the work in the right hand. With the fourth strip in the left hand, pass it around the outer strip and between the parts of the inner strip in the right hand. To draw the strips tight, pull the open ends. Cut two ends. Trim the other ends. (See the picture.) Paste the parts in place. You have made a pretty gift.
"Hi, weavers! Ho, weavers!Come, and weave with me!You'll rarely find, go where you will,A happier band than we!"
"Hi, weavers! Ho, weavers!Come, and weave with me!You'll rarely find, go where you will,A happier band than we!"
Choose, for the body of your rug, carpet yarn of a color you will like in the room where you will put it.
What color that looks well with this, will you choose for the stripes?
String your loom with one long piece of warp. Draw it so it feels firm. Leave long, free ends.
Thread your needle or shuttle, and weave from both ends to the middle.
Lift the rug from the loom when it is woven full.
Run the ends of the warp strings along the sides of the rug; or, tie them to the next warp strings.
Is your rug for a hall, a parlor, a dining-room or a bedroom?
"There is work that is work;There is play that is play;There is play that is work;There is work that is play—And one of these fourIs the very best way."
"There is work that is work;There is play that is play;There is play that is work;There is work that is play—And one of these fourIs the very best way."