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COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT.
THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT
THE
JOLLY BOOK OF
t
BOXCRAFT
BY
PATTEN BEARD
U^t'iA
Models
Sixty-ei^ht Photographic Illustrations by G. S. North from Made and Arranged by the Author and with Twenty-three Diagrams by E. D. Patiee
NEW YORK
FREDERICK
A.
STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
TT\eo
Copyright, 19 14, by
FREDERICK
A.
STOKES COMPANY
All rights reserved
September,
1^14
OCT 19 1914
G!,A380917
IS
THIS BOOK DEDICATED TO
ALL LITTLE CHILDREN

AND TO
"NIMBLEFINGERS," "HAPPY THOUGHT"
AND "PLAY"
AUTHOR'S NOTE
^'The Jolly
and rewritten
Book of Boxcraft" has been enlarged from work started in May, 1909. This
work was purchased by St. Nicholas, Little Folks, Good Housekeeping, The Congregationalist and Christian World, The Designer, Holland's Magazine, The Housekeeper, The Ladies' Home Journal, The New York Herald, and The New York Tribune. Thanks are due to them for the courtesy of using material which was included in their articles.
The author
feels that it
is
only right
to
acknowl-
edge her indebtedness
to the children
themselves
little
who
have lent their toys and helped

their
in
many
ways of
Special
own toward
Henry
the
making
of this book.
thanks are due to Elizabeth Hendricks,

Guthrie,
Jarrett, Stanley
Raymon
Hoyt, and Wesley
Meehan, playfellows.
Vll
CONTENTS
FAGS
Introduction (Verse)
xv
i
boxcraft
The The The The The
Little
White Cottage
of Boxville
9
i6 19
Boxville Store
District School of Boxville
Little
Church
of Boxville
27
Boxville Railway Station
34
.
.
B. R. R. Freight Station
and Shoe-box Tunnel

It
40
43
Hotel Bandbox and How to Furnish The Shoe-box Apartment House
50
53
Boxville Residence Boxville Garage or Stable
The
58
Making a Boxville Garden

Boxville Boat-house or Yacht Club
60
65
The Houseboat "Box Craft"

Camp Box on Mirror Lake
68 70
73
77
81
The The
Gipsy Cart of Boxville Highway
Shepherd's
Hut and the
Sheepfold
Building a Box Bridge Building a Toy Windmill Boxville Barn and Farmyard
83
86
Box Brothers' Animal Show

ix
89
CONTENTS
PAGE
Circus
Tent and Circus Grounds
92
BoxTOWN Zoo Garden BoxTOWN Hose House
96
98
100
102
.
How
to
Make
Wigwam
Fort Box
How TO
Build A Toy Castle AND A Fairyland House
105
Boxes Used as Blocks

. .
no
.
Making a Noah's Ark for Cracker Animals .114 Box Savings-bank for Pennies 117 How TO Make a Toy Wagon and Sled or Sleigh .119 The China Doll's Crib, Go-cart, and May Basket 122 The Toy Dog Kennel for a Toy Dog 127 How to Make a Teddy Bear's Wheelbarrow .129
. .
Office Furniture for Little Dolls
131
How How How
TO
to
TO
Make a Dolls' Hammock Make a Theater or Punch Show Make a Toy Merry-go-round
134
.
.136
140
143 147
Making A BoxcRAFT Automobile
How to Furnish a Doll-house How to Make the Boxcraft Game, "Ringfling" The Game of "Shoot the Chutes" The Boxcraft Game "One-Two-I-Catch-You" The Funny Game of "Mister Box" How to Make a Magic Box
.
.154
157
.159
161
163
NOTE
In view of the large number of illustrations
in this
volume and of the

it is
necessity for grouping
them,
necessary for an occasional illustration
to appear at the
end of
its
chapter, or at the end

It
is
of the preceding chapter.

fore that the
list
desirable there-
of
illustrations
be consulted fre-
quently.
XI
ILLUSTRATIONS
BoxviLLE, A
Toy Town Made with Shoe Boxes
Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
BoxviLLE Cottage {Outside View) {Inside View)
Boxville
Cottage
4
.
BoxcRAFT Materials Ân Unfinished Boxcraft Toy The Village Store {Outside View) The Village Store
{Inside
View)
The
District School {Outside View) School {Inside View)
The
18
District
19
Boxville
Church
{Outside View)
{Inside View) Boxville Railway Station Railway Station {Inside View) B. R. R. Freight Station Shoe-Box Tunnel Bandbox Hotel {Outside View) Bandbox Hotel {Inside View) Boxville Apartment House Box Furniture for the
Boxville Church {Outside View) Boxville
32
...
33
42
43 52
^The Garage for Boxville Residence The Greenhouse for Boxville Garden The Pergola FOR the Garden The Boat-House or Yacht Club The Houseboat, "Boxcraft" Camp Box on Mirror LakeThe Boxville Gipsy Cart Shepherd's Hut and Sheepfold^The Box Bridge
A
Boxville Residence
.
Apartment House
53
64
65
70
78
xiii
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Toy Windmill Boxville Barn and Farmyard The Boxcraft Animal Show
FACING PAGE
.
Box Brothers' Circus Tent Circus Cages and Booth BoxTOWN Zoo Boxtown's Hose House Indian Wigwam Fort Box The Fairyland Castle ^The Fairy House Box Building with Box Blocks A Box Animal and Box Man A Toy Train Built of Boxes Boxes as Standards for Cut-Outs A Noah's Ark with Cracker Animals A Penny Sav-
84 90
91
....
96 100
108 109
112
ings-Bank
Wagon and
Toy Wheelbarrow 128 Office Furniture for Dolls A Doll's Couch Hammock 132 Dolls' TheaterThe Toy Merry-Go-Round .138 Boxcraft Toy Automobile (With Top) Boxcraft Automobile {Without Top) 144 Doll-House Furniture: Bedroom Tables and Chairs 148 Doll-House Furniture: Mantel and Settle Piano AND Clock 149 Doll-House Furniture: Dining-room Kitchen .152 The Game, "Ringfling" The Game, "Shoot the
Toy Dog Kennel
.
Sled Crib, Go-Cart, Doll's Sled
Sleigh
May
Basket
113
Express
120
Wagon and
121
Chutes"
154
160
The Game. "Mr. Box"The Game, "One-Two-ICatch-You"
XIV
DIAGRAM
One
DIAGRAMS
DIAGRAM
PAGE
Six, E, Six,
Seven
Eight
Nine
How How How How How
to
to
to to to
Make Make Make Make Make Make Make

Make
a School Desk and a Piano 179

a Fireplace and a
Mantel
180
181
a Pergola a
Zoo
or Circus Cage
.182
183
a Dolls' Theater or
Punch
Show
Ten
Eleven
How How
How
to to
a Sleigh or a Sled
the Boxcraft
.184
185
Game, "Ring-
fling"
Twelve
Thirteen
to
the Boxcraft
Game, "One186
.
Two-I-Catch-You"
How
to
Make a Magic Box
.187
XVI
INTRODUCTION
THE BOXCRAFT ROAD
Near Jollyplay in Boxland, on Boxcraft Road to Fun, There lies a children's village a very happy one.
Its
buildings are
all
boxes
the hotel and the store,
The school-house and the station, and many others more! The name of it is Boxville. Its villagers are toys. And those who build in Boxville are merry girls and boj'^s. You, too, may go to Boxland to make a house for play
Look!
Here, you'll see the guide-post!
Before you
lies
the way.
Take cardboard boxes with you
A
It
pencil,
and a paint-box,
all
I'll tell
you
about
it.
maybe, some and take your turning's here We'll

scissors too.
paste or glue,
start
the
was a
fairy told
me
about this village, dear

xvii
The
Jolly
Book
of Boxcraft
BOXCRAFT
Material
Required
to
Make
Boxcraft: card-
board boxes,
paste, scissors, crayons or water-color
paints; perhaps a ruler, and pencil will help.
Do
you believe
in fairies?
as
I do.
know
three of
them, and they are quite

fairy godmother.
wonderful
as Cinderella's
She could make a coach and pair

all
out of nothing at
but a pumpkin and some mice,
but the fairies that I

that!
know can do even

a
better than
full of toys
They can make

at all
whole toy shop
from nothing
but some cardboard boxes.
The
fairies that I
know
are called
Nimblefingers, and Play.
Happy Thought, They have so much magic

and make
to see
that they can transform even dull days
them
jolly ones.
All three of them came

sat
me
one very rainy day, and each of them
upon a card-
board box while they

fairy art of boxcraft.
all
told
me
in chorus about the
[I]

"Have you
ever noticed
little
how much
an ordinary
flat
shoe-box looks like a
building with a
roof?"
Happy Thought
"All you have
inquired.
to
do
to
make
it
a house,"
Nimblein
its
fingers put in, "is to cut doors

sides."
and windows
"And
have
all
then,
when you have made

it,"
the house,
you
kinds of fun with
laughed Play.
for
"Boxes will make
chimneys
your house,"
Happy Thought
ture
pursued.
"Boxes will make furnibenches
beds,
tables, chairs, mantels, pianos,
everything!"
"You need only
to cut the
box rims
to
make them,"
Nimblefingers interrupted.
"And when
they are
made
oh, think of the things

made
you can use them for!" chuckled Play.
"A whole
store,
village can be
cottages,
on.
school,
church,
railway
station,
bridges,
tunnels
everything,"
Happy Thought went

you need
to
"And
I'll
all that
do
It
will be a pair of
paste.
scissors, a pencil,
some
paints,
and maybe some
show you how," Nimblefingers volunteered.

the village
is
"When
in
it!
made,
all
your toys can play

toys,
Haven't you some roly-poly tumble

[2]
and
BOXCRAFT
some penny
"I
dolls,
and toy animals?" Play demanded.

have."
is
know you must

at all
''And the village nothing
not all that you can
make from
but some cardboard boxes.

of a toy:
You may
make almost any kind

games, and
a theater for dolls, a
merry-go-round, an Indian wigwam, and games, and
GAMES!"
Happy Thought, Nimblefingers, me how to make all these magic toys
but cardboard boxes, and they
children about
it,
So, the fairies,
and Play, told
from nothing
asked
at all
me
to tell the
so that they
might know how
to
change dull days into bright and

of the magic.
happy ones when they had learned

Cardboard boxes are
to
be found everywhere.
in everybody's
They
gists,
are in your
home and
home.
Butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, milliners, drugjewelers, stationers,

grocers,
drygoods firms,
all
shoe stores, book stores, toy stores,
keep them.
Everywhere, everywhere there are cardboard boxes

big boxes,
boxes,
little
boxes, middling-sized boxes;
wide
narrow boxes, deep boxes, shallow boxes;

I
round boxes, oblong boxes, square boxes

boxes,
Boxes,
to
BOXES
them.
everywhere!
All you need
do
is
to ask for
[3]

People
butchers,
at
home
are throwing
the
them away.
makers,
The
the
the
bakers,
candlestick
milliners, the druggists, the jewelers, the stationers,
the grocers, and the dry goods firms, as well as

the others, are constantly sending boxes
to
all
your home.
The
away
shoe stores, and the book stores, and the toy
stores,
and ever
just
so
many
others, are
throwing boxes
to
because nobody seems

lies in
realize
what
magic there
them for
the children.
When Happy
fi:rst
Thought, Nimblefingers, and Play
told
me
about boxcraft, I did not find any trouble
in securing the kind of
box that
needed for the
toy-making.
found that the merchants were very

boxes
when I asked for them. They smiled when I asked. They did not know that a toy circus tent could be made from a round hat-box. They did not know that a whole village might be
glad
to
give
me
erected out of six shoe-boxes!
Among
ones.
milliner's.
the boxes given
me were
wide.
It
three very large
One was deep and

It
came from
the
to
was not
in.
bandbox, but a box used

it
pack hats away
In
kept
all
the boxes that
came
to
me.
It
The
small ones I packed inside the

after that, to find
large ones.
was a simple matter,

[4]
Boxville Cottage
is
made from
a shoe-box.
Boxville Cottage
is
furnished with boxcraft furniture.
Boxcraft Materials.
An
unfinished Boxcraft Toy.
BOXCRAFT
what
I
needed when
wished
to
make
a table, or a
chair, or a
punch show, or
pretty
a school-house.
Another box that was given

Into
it
put
all
me was wide and flat. papers that came my way

waxed
sandcovers, crape paper,
lie
till
lace paper, pinwheel paper, sheets of
wich paper and glacine book

spools,
flat
cotton,
pencils.
Everything that could
went
into this wide, flat box, to be stored
needed.
This box packed into the

third box
I
first
box
easily.
The
Into
it
was broad, and square, and deep.

I
packed the playthings
had made
after I
had
finished playing with them.

first
It fitted into the

flat
side of the
box above the wide and
one.
All
these could be put out of sight in
my play-closet when
I
night came and
it
was time
to
pick up.
treasure boxes.
These boxes
you will
materials
I called
my
hope
find three like

as
I
them and keep your boxcraft

for
kept mine,
Happy Thought,
about the plan, and
Nimblefingers, and Play told

I think
it is
me
a splendid one.
If
you have some pretty samples of wall-paper,

easily cover
you can
your treasure boxes with them.

like that in
There might be some wall-paper

play-room.
If so, this
your
would be
the very thing.

Then, the boxes may be placed anywhere you choose
in
your room.
These treasure boxes are not meant

toys.
to
hold large
It
is
the
little toys
that
you will
like best to use
in boxcraft play.
The
toy figures
and the animals
will pack into very small space.
The
corrugated
cardboard for
roofs, the
green crape paper for grass,
the pretty shells, pebbles, and artificial flowers for
garden building, take but small space.
The
too.
tools for
your boxcraft,
scissors,
and
paste,
and box
paint-box,
may go
into the large, deep treasure
Here
fairies
in this
book you will
find the toys that the

to
have shown
many, many more.
me how You can
make.
There are
craft of
try the
magic
the fairies for yourself in your
boxes are not always exactly
own way. If your like mine, make them

to the
to
answer by adapting the general plan of the toy
box which you have.

little.
is
Learn
make much out
of
That
is
the motto of boxcraft play.

fairy
THAT
That
is
what Cinderella's changed a pumpkin

fairies
godmother did when she
into a golden coach.
what
things
always do!
They
it
find
I
magic
in little
so
suppose you try
too
[6]
BOXCRAFT
Sing a song of boxes and busy fingers
too,
Some
scissors,
and a paint-box, and just a
bit of glue!
Sing a song of playtime for happy

A-snipping with their
scissors,
girls
and boys,
a-making boxcraft toys!
List of Materials
which May Be Used
IN Boxcraft
Cardboard boxes.
toys.)
(To make buildings and (To make

roofs
Corrugated cardboard.
fences.)
and
Plain cardboard.
roofs,
(To use
in cutting side walls,
wheels for carriages.)
Glacine paper book-covers.
(To use
in
making
(To
and
window-glass for buildings.)
Colored pinwheel papers and

use in decorating houses.)
Spools.
tissue papers.
(To make standards

cannon,
stools,
for
trees
bushes in landscape building, to

stands,
tables,
make
flowerdolls'
legs for
beds,
men
for playing boxcraft games.)

of
brass.
Round-headed paper-fasteners
(To
make door-knobs and

[7]
door-latches for build-

ings.
To
fasten handles to baskets.
To
fasten
wheels
Pencils.
to vehicles.)
(To use
for pillars for buildings.
To
use for
making game-boards.)
Tools Used in Boxcraft Play

Just a pair of scissors, some paste, and a box of
crayons or water-color paints.
[8]
THE LITTLE WHITE COTTAGE OF

BOXVILLE
Material Required for
one shoe-box with
its
Making a
Little Cottage:
cover, a twelve-inch square of
cardboard, three small boxes, and a bit of glacine
paper
to
make window-glass.
of Boxville.
in a
I
Here is the little Cottage The Old Woman Who Lived

have chosen
to live in a
think
better
Shoe might
this
shoe-box like
than to
cottage
have made her home

certainly seems cozy,
a shoe
in
an old boot!
The
and far more comfortable than
would
be.
know
that her children

like this.
I
would
have preferred a dwelling

like
it
am
sure you
better yourself, so I
am
it.
going
to tell
you how
you may build one
just like
Find
a shoe-box
and take
its
cover
off.
Set the box
upon
This
its
is
side with the
bottom of the box facing you.
to
be the front of the cottage.
Upon
the front
you will need

ruler
[9]
and a door.
Take your
draw two windows and a pencil. Measure

to

a
window
space two inches from either end of the
box.
Make
each
window
space two inches wide and

these,
two inches high.

door space with
the door space
a half tall.
its
Half-way between
draw a
base at the base of the box.
Make
two inches wide and three inches and
Down
into
the center of each
window
a line
space from top

it
to base of the square,
draw
which divides
half.
This forms the window-blinds, which

to cut
you will need

blinds, see
open.
(To make window with

166.)
Diagram One, B, page

Fold the
sections of
Cut top
line.
Cut down
the square.
the center line and cut across the base of
cardboard outward
against the sides of your box, and you will have

a
made
window with
blinds.
is
Half-way between windows
the
door space.
(To cut door,

across the top
Diagram Two, A, page 167.) Cut line of your square, down one side and
see
across the base.
Fold the cardboard outward, and

a door that
you will have made

close at will.
you can open and
If
you happen
to
have a round-headed paper-
fastener that has two pointed prongs that are

to press
meant
through papers
to
keep them together, take
[lO]
THE LITTLE WHITE COTTAGE

it
and press
its
prongs through the
little
door where
a door-knob should be.
Bend
the prongs together to
one side and you will have

the round knob,
as
a door-latch.
By
turning
you may
fasten the door or
open
it,
you
like.
The
(See
roof of the cottage
is fit
supported upon two

each end of the box.
168.)
pieces of cardboard cut to
Diagram Three, A^ page
To make
these,
take your cardboard and cut a piece the width of one
end of your box and four inches higher.

second piece of cardboard like
of your box.
it
Make
to
fit
the other end
Glue both on the box, one on each end.

scissors,
Then, with
cut each piece
ofif
diagonally
downward from
front of the box.
the top at the rear of the
box
to the
This cuts
off a
corner and makes a
sloping rest for each end of the cottage.

the cover of the shoe-box a sloping roof.
is
Upon
make
these
slipped to
half of
Diagram Three, AA^ page 168, showing box cover placed upon side-wall pieces.)
(See
Slip your box cover over the two points,
when
both are thoroughly dry.
See,
it
makes the
best kind
of a roof for your cottage!

If
you wish
is
to
add
a chimney, any long,
narrow
box
that
small enough to form the right proportion

[II]

to the roof
may
be used.
Measure
its
base upon the

of the
it
cottage roof near the top.
Cut the cardboard
roof so that the box end
may
be slipped through
a
and stand
use a box
its
erect,
and you have
chimney.
If
you
which has
off bricks
a sliding cover like a drawer,

little
outside will be like a real
chimney.
You
may mark
it
upon
it
with a pencil, and color
bright red.
wad
of cotton will
form the smoke
for a chimney.
I painted blinds
and door of the cottage that you

Blinds were green and the door
see in the picture.
was brown.
You may use almost any kind of paint The colors from your water-color paintto do this. ing-box will answer. You may use crayons too, if
like.
you
It
is
Other paint takes somewhat longer
to dry.
not so well adapted to the building.
In front of
my cottage,
made
garden with some
artificial flowers that
had once been on
my summer
for
hat in a wreath.
your cottage,
one
You may easily make a garden or you may have tubs of flowers like
It
is
the
in the picture.
the lower half of a pill-box
filled
with forget-me-nots.
cottage
is
The
furnished with furniture cut from
small boxes.
These may be three inches long or

[12]

smaller.
My
furniture
is
all
painted, but you need

to
not paint yours unless you care
do
so.
The bed is made from a box and its cover. To make it, first take the lower half of your box and turn
it
over so that
its
rims are below instead of on top.

for the bed,
At each corner cut a leg
and remove cardit
board from between these
cuttings, so that
leg.
leaves at
each corner of the rim a two-sided
(To cut bench
form, see Diagram Six, A, page 175.)
When
you
have cut
of
this
lower half of the bed, take the cover

it
your box and turn
so that
its
rims
instead of
downward.
Remove
the
come upward rims from each

head and
foot-
long
side,
and you will have
left the
board of the bed.
Glue
this piece to the
lower half
Sheets
you
first cut,
and the bed will be

tissue
finished.
and pillow may be cut from
or lace paper.
A
box.
chair
is
made from
ofif
the lower half of any small
Beginning
at the center of
one long rim of the
box, cut the rim
half-way around.
The
part with
rim removed will be the back of the chair. The other

will be the seat and legs.
left of
Legs are cut
to right
is
and
each forward corner.
Cardboard
evenly
removed from between them.
Rear
legs are cut in
each rim at the side of the box in the same way,

[13]

except that these rear legs have but one cut needed.
They
are not cornered as the front legs are.
(For
cutting a chair, see
Diagram
Is
Six, C,
page
177.)
made from a spool bystanding the spool on end. Over its top Is placed the half of a small round box. (A square box cover may answer quite as vvêll.) The table may be made from
table for the cottage
an ordinary spool, or two twist spools glued end

end.
to
(For
table, see
Diagram
Six,
DD,
p^ge
178.)
A mantel with fireplace for the cottage may be cut

from
a small
box three inches high.

its
Stand the box
on end and cut from
rear,
near the base, an opening

a
like that of a fireplace.

fireplace, see
(For cutting
Six,
mantel with
Diagram
as it
it
G, page 180.)
Use the
it.
back of the box, your box

not show
is
has no printing upon
If
painted,
will not matter whether or not

in the front, as the print will
you make your cutting
when
cleverly painted over.
In
my
cottage there lived a tumble toy lady.
Her
name was Polly Ann. You can

with her china dog.
toys
see her in the picture
You may
use roly-poly tumble
or penny dolls to play with in the cottage.

to use,
Figures cut from magazine pictures are fun

too.
Color them with your paints or crayons.

[14]

Besides tumble toys, Noah's
ture people cut
ville cottages
Ark
figures,
and picBoxone
from magazines,
be found
at
villagers for
may
any penny store where

dolls,
children trade.
cent apiece!
These are small dressed
In candy shops where party favors are sold,
all
manner
odd
of small figures
may
be bought.
These are
to use in
little
men
or
women
just the
very ones
playing Boxville plays.
At every holiday
always find them.
season,
new
ones appear
You can
I built
a tiny cottage with two windows and a door,

Boxville Cottage and I placed
it
I called It
on the
floor:
All 'round about

I'll tell
my
to
cottage, a cardboard village

it,
you
how
make
so that
grew you can make one too!
[15]
THE BOXVILLE STORE

Making a
Boxville Store:
one shoe-box with two shoe-box covers, two long

pencils,
two
spools,
waxed paper, and small

is
boxes.
a shoeit
The
box.
village store of Boxville
made from
One shoe-box
you wish
to
its
cover makes the porch

the roof of the store.
rests
upon.
If
Another forms
make
side,
a village store, also, place a
shoe-box upon
and then the bottom of the

of
box will become the front
your
store.
You
front.
will need to have a large shop
window
in
Make
this first.
Two
inches
from the
pencil a
right-
hand end
of the box,
five
mark with your

four sides.
wide
this
oblong space
inches by three.
all
Cut out
window window
Cut
space on
space, see
(For cutting a
166.)
Diagram One, A, page
a piece of
waxed paper
a little larger than
the size of your
window.
Paste this inside the box
building over the

strips of
window
space to
make
glass.
Cut
pinwheel paper and paste them around the

[i6]
THE BOXVILLE STORE

window on
casings.
the outside of the box to
make windowstore.
Now
Draw Make
box.
you are ready
to
make
door for your
a door space on your

it
box with your
pencil.
two inches from the left-hand end of the

it
Make
four inches high and two inches wide.
(To cut single door, Cut across the top
Diagram Two, A^ page 167.) line, down the side line that is
see
next the window, and across the base.
When
you
bend the cardboard you have

door that will open and
close.
cut,
you will have a

if
Color the door,
you
like.
It
this,
may
be painted brown.
to
After
you are ready
place the roof on your

its
store; but
first,
lay one of the
box covers upon

little store
rims
it,
on your work-table and put the
upon
well back, so there will be a porch in front.

take your other shoe-box cover and
of the box building so that
in front.
it
fit it
Then,
over the top
projects over the porch
Two
long pencils, with ends run into the
openings of two spools,

corner of the porch.
make
is
pillars to place at either
The
have.
step
up
to the
porch
any small box you
may
a
Inside
the
store,
long hat-pin box makes

[17]

counter.
little toys
Flowers, leaves, pretty pebbles,
shells,
and
such
as
you may
find
among your own
play-
things
may
be displayed upon the counter.
roly-poly tumble toy will
make
a clerk for the
store, or, if
you
like,
you may find both clerk and and cut them
customers in magazine pictures, and you can mount
them on
no end
is
thin cardboard
out.
There
is
to the plays
you can invent
when your
store
finished.
Polly
Ann
of shoe-box cottage, Boxville,
has just
come
to the store to
buy
a loaf of bread.
There
it is
that pretty brown pebble!

The beads
shells are little cakes!
Those green
box are
leaves are vegetables!
in that
apples!
The
To
To
Boxville!
Boxville!
To
have a
to
lot of
fun!
I'm going to the general store
buy a penny bun!

perhaps,
The bun is just a pebble on the And the penny's made of paper,
counter of the store,

so,
I'll
make some more!
[i8]
The
Village Store
made
of a shoe-box and two slioe-box covers.
Inside view of the Village Store.
The counter
is
a hatpin box.
The
District School of Boxville.
Tt is
made from
a shoe-box.
Inside view of the Boxville School.
The desks
;
oblong boxes. The benches are boxes also with a pencil for a stove-pipe.
are all cut from small and the stove is a spool
THE DISTRICT SCHOOL OF BOXVILLE

Material Required for Building a
Toy
School:
one shoe-box with
its
cover, a half-sheet of cardboard,
three small boxes about three inches long, the cover
of
some narrow
little
box which has an inner drawer, box two inches long.

see a toy school-house? like I
a pencil, a spool, and a
Did you ever before

don't believe
ville School, so I
you have ever seen anything
Box-
am
going
to tell
you how you may
build one like

First,
itself.
it.
you will need

Its
a shoe-box to
form the house

either end
cover
is
the roof.
To
this, at
of the box, are glued two side walls
which hold the
roof in place, slanting.
The
cover of some tiny nar-
row box which

chimney.
is
Inside,
made with an inner drawer is the the desks are made from the lower
Their
the benches.
parts of three boxes about three inches long.
three covers
make
A teacher's desk may

Its
be
made from any
small box you have.

[19]
cover
is
THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT teacher's chair. A spool forms the stove, and a
cil is
pen-
the stovepipe.
Begin by taking the cover from your shoe-box.

Place the box upon the table before you so that
stands
it
upon one long
side,
with
its
bottom part facing
you, open at the back.
The
base of your box,
which which
now
faces you, will be the part of the school
will need to have
windows made
in
it.
These
two
windows must have
blinds.
The
window
cut.
spaces must be located on the face of the
box, which fronts you.
From
faces
these the blinds are
Two
inches from either end of your box,
mark
a ver-
upon
tical
the part
which
you two oblongs, each
three inches high and two inches wide.

line
Mark
down
the center of each
window
space.
to cut.
This forms the blinds, which you will need
(For cutting blinds, see Diagram One, B, page 166.)
Cut
the top line,
down
the center line, and across
the base line.
Press the two sections of cardboard

sides of the
outward against the
box building, and

blinds.
you will have made the window with

these blinds,
if
Color
you choose.
Use crayons or waterthe cardboard side
color paints.
Next, you will need
to
make
[20]

walls
which support
the box-cover roof.
Take your
sheet of cardboard and measure with pencil outline
upon
it
the shape of one end of your box.
Add
to this
four inches at the top, and cut this piece from the
cardboard with
its
added height.
cardboard identical with
one end of the box upright.
Make
the
first.
a second piece of
Glue each
to
Cut from each
the front
upper corner
point.
(See
Diagram Three, A^ page 168, which shows of the side walls when cut.)
Cut
a
tral part,
the shape
door in one of these side walls, near
its
cen-
where you
see the
door in the picture of

take pencil and
Boxville School.
ruler
To make
this, first
and make an oblong four inches high and two
inches wide.
(To cut door,

line,
see
Diagram Two, A,
line,
page
167.)
Cut top
down one side
and across
the base line.
Fold the door outward.
The
this,
card-
board under the door in the side wall

the shape of the door space.
If
may
be cut out
you do
your
door will bend open more

If
easily.
you happen
its
to
have a round-headed paper-faslittle
tener, press
pointed prongs through the
door
of
where
a door-knob should go.
The round head
the paper-fastener will
form
[21]
a door-knob. Its prongs,

bent to one side, form the latch.
It will catch the
is
door securely when the "door-knob"
turned.
is
Now
finished,
that the lower part of the school building
you may begin upon the

Place
it
roof.
This
is
the
box cover.
so that
upon
the points of the side walls
it fits
is.
down upon them. You

(For placing a roof on
a
will readily see
how this
ing, see
shoe-box build-
Diagram Three, AA, page

the roof
is
168.)
When
placed, you will be able to judge

in the box-
where the chimney-hole should be cut

cover roof.
the box that
It
is
should go near the top at the end of

opposite the door.
The
cover of
some narrow box which has

will
a sliding inner
drawer
make
off
the chimney.
It will be just the right
shape, square and hollow.
Mark
upon
the sides of this

red, if
box the bricks of

you
like.
the chimney.
Color them
If
you
use a ruler, the
do not need
to
work is easily and quickly mark the bricks unless you
done.
like.
You
Your
out of
box may be painted merely.
To
place
it
on the roof, you will need
to cut
the school-house roof a piece of cardboard the size of the end of your box.
Decide where the chimney

it
should go.
Mark
the end of
with pencil upon the
[22]

roof at this point.
Cut
the cardboard out.
(For
cutting hole for chimney in a box-cover roof, see Dia-
gram Three, AA^ page 168.) Press the end of the chimney down through this hole. Press the chimney backward to make it stand straight, and glue it. Some tiny bit of cotton stuffed into the upper hole
of the
chimney box will form smoke.

course,
Of
you will be anxious
to
furnish your
it
school-house inside.
district school
You may make

and
a
like a real It will
such as you see in the country.
have
desks, benches, a stove,
blackboard
to
say nothing of a teacher's desk and chair!
The lower
desks.
It
is
halves of the three small boxes form

really a simple matter to
make
these.
They are the kind that have a shelf beneath the top. They are open. Take the lower half of one of these boxes. Place it upon one of its long rims. The upper rim will be the top of the desk. The ends of the box will need to
be cut the shape of the sides of a desk.
a desk
(For cutting
out of a small oblong cardboard box, see DiaSix,
gram
E, page 179.)
Fit a bit of box rim beneath the top of the desk
where the
shelf should go,
and glue
its
ends to the box
[23]

desk.
The
desk
may
be painted black,
if
you choose.
Make
the two other desks like this one.
The benches are next To make a bench, make

box rim
each
at the center of
as far as the
cut from the box covers.

a cut
with
scissors in
each

of the cover.
Cut
upper part
Half the
box will be the back of the bench.

seat
Half will be the

the other half of
and
legs.
First, cut the legs.
Then bend
the box upward, cut off the side piece at either end
of the box, bend the long rim upward.
This will
legs
make
of
176.)
bench with high back.

its
(For cutting the

Six,
bench and
high back, see Diagram
B, page
In following diagrams, always cut where you
see the
heavy black
line.
Bend where you

first
see a
dotted
desks.
line.
The bench may be

is
painted to match the

one.
Make
other benches like the
The
teacher's desk
made from
the lower half of

It
is
another box
one about two inches long.

a
Six,
like.
is
made
end
like a table, except that
no legs are cut in
its
rims.
(For cutting
bench form for the teacher's
desk, see
Diagram
if
A, page
175.)
The
desk
may
be painted,
you
The
chair for this desk
cut from the cover of

the
same box
that
made
the desk.
Cut
the cover's rim
half off the box, beginning at the center on one long

side.
The
part of the cover left without rim will be
the back of the chair.
Cut
legs at the corners of the
other half of the cover and at each side on the rim.
Remove
(To cut
the surplus cardboard

chair, see
from between them.

page
177.)
Diagram
Six, C,
Color
the chair to
match desks and benches.

is
Your
to
school
almost done.
The
stove will need
be put up
I'm quite sure that you never heard of

without a stove!
It
is
a district school-house
as
much
is
a part of a district school as the
dipper and the waterjust
pail used to be.
The
stove of this toy school
a spool painted black.
Place
it
under the chimney,

its
with the point of a long pencil run into

to
upper hole
is
represent a stovepipe.
There!
That
easy to
do, I
am
sure!
is
The blackboard
a piece of black
pinwheel paper
If
cut oblong and pasted between the windows.
you
have some old time-table

will find in
it
in
your home, perhaps you

that
a small
map
may
be cut out and
pasted to the walls of the school.
You
can
make
text-books
by folding pieces
of
paper together.
These can be placed inside the

[25]
desks.
THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT Penny dolls make excellent scholars. A tumble
toy figure
may make
a schoolmistress or a school-
master.
In the picture of Boxville School, you can see three
penny
board.
dolls
and
my
tumble toy schoolmistress.

is
The
at the
dolls are at recess.
Violet
trying to do a
to
sum
Pansy
is
pretending
be ''teacher."
Lily
has just finished her luncheon.
When
does your school open?
Now The scholars

I
will have to hurry or they'll be late!
made a
little
Boxville School, and

dolls,
now
in
it
each day
I'm educating penny

I teach
and
it
is
splendid play!
them
all
my
lessons every day
when
am
through
They have
finished
with
my
reader,
and can divide by two.
[26]
THE LITTLE CHURCH OF BOXVILLE

Material
Required
for
Making
its
Boxville
Church: one shoe-box with

box about
six
cover, one
narrow
or seven inches long, one oblong box
cover three or four inches long, three small box

covers of
about the same size
(three
inches),
twelve-inch square of cardboard, and some colored

tissue-paper, with a spool.
Ding! Ding! Can you hear the

of the Boxville
bell in the steeple

It does not ring
bell,
Church ringing?
it is
very loud, because

ring beautifully!
that
such a small
but
it
does
You
can try
it
yourself.
this
Suppose
for your
you make a
little
church like
village!
Take a shoe-box. Remove its cover. Lay the shoebox upon one long side rim. The bottom of the box will become the side of the church. It will need to have three long windows cut in it. "Draw these window spaces long and narrow, about
[27]

one inch wide and three inches high.
box, and
Cut the two
end windows equally distant from the ends of the
draw
the outline of the center
window mid(For cutting
way between these top of the window

If
two.
Cut
the cardboard at the
spaces to a point.
windows, see Diagram One, A, page

cut three pieces the same shape as the
166.)
you have some colored tissue-paper, you may
window
spaces
you have cut

the open
glass
out.
Let them be a
little
wider and
longer, however.
Paste each inside the box right over

will
window spaces. This windows. You can paint
make
stained-
the window-casings
with black ink, or paint on the outside of the box
around the windows.

If
you prefer, you can make the window-casings

strips of
by pasting narrow
pinwheel paper around
the windows, instead of using the paint.
The
roof.
Boxville Church, as you can
see,
has a sloping
This roof
is
the cover of the shoe-box supported
made of cardboard and glued to each end of the box. You will need to cut these side walls. (See Diagram Three, A^ page 168.)
on two
side walls,
which
are
Measure
the exact width
and height of your box
on the twelve-inch square of cardboard.

[28]
Measure

one end only, and place the end of the box so that
it
comes
at the
edge of your cardboard.
At
it.
the top,
add
four inches to the height, and cut out this oblong piece
you have drawn.
Make
another like
Next, cut
off
the two front upper corners diagonally
down
to the
mark you
building
first
made, showing the height of your box

your box.
one of these
sides.
at the front of
Cut
church door
in
Make
it
rather high
about the height of the church windows.

at the
Let the base of the door come

side wall.
lower edge of the

vertically
Cut up through the cardboard
for about three inches.
Then
cut the arch of the door
and bend
as if
it
were on
a hinge.
(See
Diagram
Two, A^ page
167, for cutting door.)
Paste each side wall in place on the box building

so that the points of
each come
at the rear of the box.
When
The
will
the side walls are firmly dry, cut out the cardis
board that
roof
first
is
under the door space of the side wall.
not quite ready to go on yet, however.

to
You
need
arrange for the steeple or bell tower.
Take
a long
the cover of your shoe-box and also the oblong

to use for a steeple.
as
box you intend
This
may be
either
candy box, such
chocolate peppermints
it
are often sold in in drug stores, or
may
be a box
[29]

such
as jewelers use for hat-pins.
church should come over the
The tower of door. Near the

is
the
top
corner of the shoe-box cover which

of the church,
to
be the roof
mark
is
ofif
the shape of one end of the
oblong box which
to
be the tower.
Cut out
this
square from the shoe-box roof, and cut out about a

quarter of an inch more at the bottom, otherwise your
steeple will not stand exactly straight.
Now,
slip the roof

is
over the points of the side walls.

next, slip the
Seel that
it!
And,
tower in place
in the roof
down through
over the door.
the opening
which comes
a bell,
{See Diagram Three,

is
AA^ page
168.)
If your tower
at
to
have
you can buy
a bell
almost any toy
store.
It will
probably cost you a
penny.
You
it
will need to cut openings in the
upper
part of the bell-tower box.
Cut one on each
side, as
you
see
in the picture of
my
Boxville Church.
The
belfry
windows
will be cut like ordinary square win-
dows, except for a point at the top.

plain windows, see
(For cutting
166.)
Diagram One, A^ page

to a
The
bell
is
next tied like a locket
double cord
is is
or bit of string.
One end
of this string
used
to
fasten the bell to the top of the tower.
It
sewed,
with the help of a large darning-needle,

[30]
to the card-

board top of the belfry.
The
other end of the cord
will be the bell-rope, and this goes
down through
the
cardboard
at the base of
your tower box and through

It
the cardboard at the top of the shoe-box building.
can be threaded
to the
darning-needle and pressed

till its
through the holes made by the needle
end hangs
it
down
into the
church vestibule,
let
as
you see
in the
picture.
When you
the sexton pull this bell-rope,

it
ding, ding goes the bell, and the noise that

is
makes
your
just the right size for a Boxville
Church!
Now
church.
is
you are ready
to furnish the inside of
Begin with the platform for the pulpit. This
the
box cover you have

Place
it
the
one about three or
four inches long.
where the platform should

spool will be the pulpit.
go, opposite the door.
The
Paste a
at
little
round cardboard disk over the opening

this will
one end of the spool, and
be the top of the
pulpit.
Paint the spool black.

a long,
Use
(See
narrow box cover for the pulpit

Six, C,
chair.
Diagram
till
page
177.)
Cut the rim from

side.
box cover, beginning near the center on one long
Cut
you have reached the point opposite.
The
part of the cover from
which
the rim has been re-
moved
will be the back of the chair.
Bend
it
forward.
[31]

The
chair.
other half of the cover will be the seat of the
Legs are cut
in the front
rim and in the side

part which
rims that remain.
To make
up
front legs, keep the corto the

is
ners of the box, and cut

seat, the
the
upper part of the cover.
Remove
the card-
board from between these two
cuttings.
Then, make
the back legs of the chair in the box rims at side.
Place the
if
little
chair back of the pulpit, and color
it,
you wish,
to
match.
At least three pews will be needed for the church. They are to be made from the three small box covers. (See Diagram Six, 5, page 176, for making highbacked benches.)
With
a pencil or pin-point,
mark
the center of each
short rim on these box covers.
Then, taking one

till
cover, cut through the rim at the two points
you
have reached the top of the cover.

division
Half of the
made
will be for the back of the bench and
half for the seat and the legs.

as
Cut
the legs in one half
you cut the
legs for the pulpit chair.
Remove
end
to
from the other half of

rim.
the cover the remaining

is
Bend
the rim that
left at the top
upward,
make
to
the high back of the bench,

chair.
and color the bench
match the pulpit and
[32]
Boxville Church
box.
It
is
made from a shoe-box. Its IjcU-tovvcr is an oblong has stained glass windows of red tissue-paper.
Boxville Church has a pulpit, reading desk, and pews that are boxcraft style from boxes and a spool.
made
in

Place the benches one behind the other inside the
church.
Let the sexton ring the bell for Sunday-
school to begin.
What was
the lesson
it?
you had
last
Sunday?
might not
taught
ville
it
Do
you remember about
Perhaps you
so easily forget next Sunday's lesson, if
you
yourself to a class of penny dolls in a Boxlike this.
Church
Anyway, you can
try!
Boxville dolls on Sunday go
To
this
Boxville Church, just so!
Two
by two, as couples should,
Boxville dolls are always good

Little Boxville, as you see, Is as good as
Little girls
it
can be:
little
and
boys.
Learn
this text
from Boxville toys!
[33]
THE BOXVILLE RAILWAY STATION

Making a Boxville
Rail-
way
ers,
Station: one shoe-box and four shoe-box cov-
one small box about four inches square and with-
out a cover, the shallow covers of two small boxes

three inches long, two long pencils, and a small square
of
waxed paper.
Boxville's
Railway Station
is
a real railway station.
It
is
not a tin thing such as you buy ready-made in a
toy shop.
Boxville Station has a waiting-room with
a real ticket booth and benches. the
You
you
can
make
just
same kind of
It
is
little station as
see in this pic-
ture.
easy to make.
itself,
The
building
you
its
see, is the
lower half of a
is
shoe-box placed upon
side.
The platform
is
made
of two shoe-box covers placed end to end

floor,
upon the
and the roof of the
station
is
one shoe-box cover.
The
and
other shoe-box cover

this
is
the roof of the platform,
supported by two long lead-pencils.

to
Do
you want
make
a Boxville Station?
To
[34]

begin,
you must make two doors and

is
window on
the part of your box that
the front of the station.
About an inch and a half from either end of your box, mark a door space four inches high and two
inches wide.
so that
it
Use
a pencil
and ruler for the work,

an oblong
will be even.
Half-way between the door
spaces you have drawn,
mark
off
space two inches high and three inches
window wide. Now,

in the
you can take your

box.
167.)
scissors
and cut the doors
(To cut Cut
doors, see
Diagram Two, A^ page

Cut the
to the
the top line of each door space.
bottom
line also.
The
doors must open toward each
other, so cut each
door space down the side next

little
window
on
all
space.
Push each
door inward.
Next, cut out the
window
space.
Cut
it
around
four sides, and keep to the line you have drawn
with pencil.
page
166.)
(To cut window, see Diagram One, A, When you have finished this, take a piece
of the
waxed paper you have and paste it inside the station building over the window space to make window-glass. The waxed paper should be cut a bit
longer and wider than the opening of the window.
You
from
can measure
the box.
it
by the cardboard piece you cut
[35]

If
you wish, you may color the doors of your

brown. Use whatever colors
station building green or
you have, but
if
you use your water-colors, keep the

can.
work
as
dry
as
you
If
you do
not, the doors will
not be straight.
They
will curl.
to
Place two shoe-box covers end
end upon the floor
or table, for you can put the building upon them now.
See,
it is
placed far back, so that there will be a plat-
form
in front.
Place the building
at the left of the
platform made of the shoe-box covers.
The
If
third shoe-box cover
is
the roof of the station
building, and you must
fit it
down over
the station.
you wish
to
have a roof over your station platform,

to
you will need the fourth shoe-box cover
make
this.
To
secure
It
in place, just cut
two end corners on
the box rim as far as the top of the cover.
Then,
turn this end rim
hand rim
of the
upward and slip it under the rightcover which forms the roof of the
station building itself.
You
will need
two
pillars at
the right-hand end of your platform to keep the long
roof up.
These
pillars are long lead-pencils.
Press
the point of a pencil
down through each right-hand

them
into stan-
top corner of the long station platform's top, and secure the points below by running
[36]

dards
made
of spools.
The
pencil point will be firm
when run into the upper hole of a standing spool, and when both pillars are so fixed, the roof will be quite firm. (See Diagram Three, G, page 172.) Next, make a signboard for your station, and glue
it
to the roof.
You
will need to have a bench or
two and
a ticket
office in
your station building.

office.
little
doll can be
placed in the ticket

of
If
you look
at the picture
my
The
Boxville Station, you will see a lady buying
her ticket of the ticket agent.

ticket
booth
is
the lower half of a
box that
is
about four inches wide and an inch or so deep.

will need to stand
the part of the
it
You
on
its
is
rim and cut a window in
box that
the front of the ticket office.
You do
station,
this just as
you cut the window for your
only you must
make
the ticket-booth
window
with
cut
smaller.
Draw
see
the outline of the
window
cut
it
first
help of pencil and ruler.
Then
out.
To
Diagram One, A, page 166.) When window is cut, paste some waxed paper over the window opening on the inside of the box. Cut a round
window,
opening
In this, near the bottom.
The
ticket agent
is
will need this,
you
see.
Now,
[37]
the ticket booth

finished!
go-
Place
it
between the doors where
it
should
You
will need a bench at either end of the station
waiting-room.
Cut
these
from covers
of two boxes
three inches long.

Six, B,
(For cutting benches, see Diagram
page 176.)
With
pencil or pin-point
mark
a dot at the center of each short end rim of the covers,
and cut through each rim thus marked

reached the top of the cover.
so
till
you have
Half
of each division
made
will be the high back of the bench.

seat
Half
rim of
will
form the
and
legs.
Cut
legs in the
one end.
Leave the corners
at the front of the bench

is
and remove the cardboard that
between them,
making your
front corner.
rims.
is
cutting to the right and left of each
Then
cut the rear legs in both side
Bend
the other half of each box upward.
This
to
be the high back.

left
Cut
off the little pieces of
cardboard that are
on the narrow end rims. Bend

rim upward
to
what
is
left of the cover's
make
the
rest of
the high back for each bench.
Color the
benches black or brown.

Toot-too!
train?
Don't you hear the whistle of the toy

that
is
The baggage,
made up
of boxes,
is
[38]

waiting on the station platform, and the
are ready to start on their travels.
little dolls
Miss Doll
is
waiting on the station platform.
She
has just purchased her return ticket to Boxtown.
Boxtown
on Circus
is
the next stop.
Day
Everybody goes there
Mr.
Doll,
Mr. Mulligan, Mr.

all
Swartzenheimer, Polly Ann, Susan Smith,
the
Noahs!
The
station platform
the sky
is
crowded!
When
I
all
is
dark with storm,
Then with my
train I play.
build a Boxville Station,
And
It
Is
stay Indoors all day.
always pleasant weather

you're happy as can be;
When
And when
I'm playing BoxvlIIe,
There's no storm that / can see!
[39]
B.
R. R.
FREIGHT STATION AND SHOEBOX TUNNEL

Make
a Boxville Freight
Material Required to
Station: one shoe-box cover, one shallow cover of

a
box about eight or nine inches long and seven or

five inches
eight inches wide, and the lower half of a deep box
about six inches long and four or
wide.
B. V. R. R.
:
Make
a Dark Tunnel for
the lower half of an ordinary shoe-box.
After you have built your Boxville Railway Station, I
am sure you will
like to build a
Freight Station
for your railway system. freight to go

little
You
will have so
is
much
to the
from Boxville!
It will take
There
no end
boxes!
you about
It
five minutes,
is
or
less, to
build the freight station.

see
so
simple that
you can almost
how from
is is
looking at the picture.
The shoe-box
of the deep
cover
the platform.
The lower
half
box you have

left
turned upside-down and
placed upon the
end of the shoe-box cover.

[40]
FREIGHT STATION AND TUNNEL

double door
box.
door.)
is
outlined with pencil at one end of this

167, for
(See
Diagram Two, B, page

a square three inches
double
Mark
wide on the end
of the box where the door should come.
Draw down
This
line
the center of this from top line to lower line.

gives the two divisions of the door.
of the door space.
Cut the top

it
Cut down
the center line of
and
across the lower line.
Bend
the two doors of the

if
doorway outward.
Color them,
flat roof,
you
like.
To make
and place
it
the square
take the box cover
down over the freight building at the That is an easy way to make a roof, isn't it? top. And now that the freight office is made, I am sure
you will agree that
it it is
very fine one indeed.
Isn't
fun
to
build your
to
own?
have
Do
way
you want
me
tell
you how
to
make
tunnel too?
system.
It will
be fine
to
have one for your
rail-
To make
is
one you will need a box
almost any that
deep, like a shoe-box, will answer.
How
high
is
the smoke-stack of your train?
Two
inches? Well,
Then, the
how high is it from the ground? Five? holes made for the tunnel opening in either
to
end of the box will need

or a half-inch.
be higher
still
by an inch
(For cutting a tunnel,

[41]
see
Diagram

Four, Bf page 173.)
half
is
Turn your box
over.
The lower
put
the only part
you will need
to use, so
aside the cover.
In either end of the box cut out a

train to
round opening large enough for your toy

pass through at a sixty-miles-a-minute rate.
is
There
your tunnel
If
you have any crape paper, you can cover the

and top of your box
hill.
sides
so that
it
will look like a
big square
The ends
to
of the
box should be painted
with black paint

Let's see
look like stone masonry.
how
saw?
well your train goes through the
tunnel
toot-tool
For
Here
it
goes!
Isn't that the nicest
toy you ever
Little bits of boxes
make
a pile of freight
It
is
my
Boxville Railway.
simply great/
Just a cardboard shoe-box makes a tunnel too
Very black
an' spooky
when my
train goes through!
[42]
HOTEL BANDBOX AND HOW TO

FURNISH
IT
a Hotel
Make
Bandbox:
one large bandbox with

square bandbox that
is
its
cover, the cover of another
larger.
These make the build-
ing and
its
roof.
A shallow box cover will

Two
is
make
the
roof over the front door.

pillars.
long pencils are
The
hotel
furnished with furniture cut
from small boxes. Spools, lace-paper, pinwheel paper,

bits of
wall-paper, and the glacine paper covers from
books
may
all
be used.
Did you
one that
ever before hear of a dolls' hotel? If you
look at the picture of Hotel Bandbox, you will see
may
be
made from
a square hat-box.
Its
is
porch
is
a large hat-box cover.
hat-box, smaller than this cover.

hotel
is
The building The roof of
the
the cover of the hat-box
itself.
Windows and
bandbox.
front door are cut in the rims of the
[43]

In starting
windows.
make a hotel, begin by marking off Each window must be two inches wide
to
and three inches high. It will help you to place windows evenly if you mark a horizontal line around
three sides of your
the top of the box.
as light as possible.
bandbox about three inches from
Use
a ruler, and
make
all
marks
They
are only intended to guide
you, and must be rubbed out after you have cut out
the
window spaces. Below the line you have drawn, make another, three inches farther down the sides of the box. This
forms the base of windows.
Next, make the windows that come nearest each
corner of the box.
corner.
line
Measure two inches from each

line at
This gives the right spacing from the corner.
Measure two inches more on your horizontal

of a
the top of the building, and this will give the width
window.
Make
the end
windows
first.
Then
make the ones that come between. Space evenly, so Cut that windows may come at regular intervals. (For cutting a out each window on all four sides. window, see Diagram One, A, page 166.) Arrange
your lower story windows
as
you have the upper
ones.
At
the center
upon
the front of your building out-
[44]
HOTEL BANDBOX
line a large
double door four inches square. It should

very base of bandbox.
come
line.
at the
(To cut double
door, see
Diagram Two, B, page 167.) Cut its top Cut its base line. Cut the cardboard between
lines in half vertically to
these
two
make
the door.
When windows
paste
and door are made, then you may
some three-inch squares of glacine paper back
of each
is
window
this
inside the box.

If
made
way.
you
like,
The window-glass you may leave some

upon
the
windows open.
The
larger
building
is
ready, now, to stand
bandbox
cover.
As you
see, this
makes
a porch.
Place the smaller bandbox cover over the upper

part of your hat-box to
make
a flat roof.
Over the front door you may make a fiat roof. (See Diagram Three, G, page 172.) Use for it a narrow
box cover.
Glue one long rim of
this
cover to the
cardboard over your doorway.
Press a pencil point
downward through each forward corner of the cover The pencil points may be secured to make a pillar.
in the holes of
two spools and thus keep the roof
upright.
If
you wish, you may glue the spools where

of cardboard
they should go.
Cut
narrow
strip
and write the
[45]

name
way.
Flower-stands for the hotel veranda are simple
things to make.
flower-stand.
of your hotel
upon
it.
Glue
this
over the door-
One
spool will be needed for each
Press the stems of some artificial flowers

If
into the hole of the spool.
you have
gilt paint,
you
can gild the stands.

color paint.
painted mine with black water-
Penny
and
dress
dolls
make
like
guests for the hotel.
They come
already dressed, but you can take one or two of yours
them
men
to
dolls.
inked mine.
You
If
can see them in the picture.
How
see that
at the
are
you going
play inside the hotel?
you look
at the
second picture of the hotel, you will
it is
the back of the box, and that each corner

cut.
back of the box has been

lets
When
this
is
done, the back
down.
You
can cut your hotel
building
again,
this
way.
As you
see, it
may
be closed up
when you
are not playing Inside.
Partitions for downstairs rooms are
made with two

used.
shoe-boxes
just their
lower half
is
Cut the
This
ends
ofif
each box.
Place each lengthwise inside the

is
hotel so that there
a space
between them.
space forms the hotel hallway.

[46]
HOTEL BANDBOX
Cut
put
it
a piece of
cardboard
to fit into
your box and

It
over the top of these two shoe-boxes.
forms
the floor for the second-story rooms.
Another shoepartitions
box
or
two,
if
you prefer
makes
for
second-story rooms.
Doors may be cut

a single
in these partitions.
(For cutting
door space, see Diagram Two, A^ page 167.)

of wall-paper
Samples
hotel.
make good
carpet for the
You may
cut
it
into squares to
make
rugs.
Window
The
curtains may be made from tissue-paper
or lace-paper.
furniture,
itself, is
cut from very small boxes.
Tables are made with spools.
The lower
to
half of a small oblong box
may
be cut
form
a chair
by removing
its
rim, half-way around
beginning
moved
is
to cut the
rim
at the center of
one long
is
side of the box.
The
part from which the rim

Press
left
its
re-
cardboard
it is
upward. The part that has the rim

seat of the chair,
upon
its
the
and
legs are cut at
two front
corners and in each side at the rear.

Six, C,
(See
Diagram
page
177, for
making
a chair.)
to
Place a pill-box over an upright spool

table.
make
Round
pill-boxes
make round
[47]
tables.
Square

boxes
make square
178.)
tables.
(See
Diagram
its
Six,
DD,
page
An
doll's
oblong pill-box rested on

bureau.
side will
form a
front,
rear.
Mark
off the
drawers upon
its
and glue a
strip of
cardboard, upright, at
its
Paint a mirror frame on the strip of cardboard.
Beds for the hotel chambers may be made of small

oblong boxes and their covers.
To make
the
upper
part of the bed, cut off the long rims on each side of
the cover.
This leaves headboard and footboard

to the
to
be glued
lower half of the box when

to rest
this
has
cor-
been turned over
upon
its
rims.
At each
ner of the lower half of the box, cut a leg for the bed
to stand
upon.
Remove
see
the cardboard
from between
each.
(To cut bed,
Little dolls
at
Diagram Six, AA, page 175.) touring through Hatbox County stop
the hotel overnight.
Drummer
at
dolls,
on their
business trips to Boxville General Store, find comfortable
accommodations
Bandbox Hotel
too.
As
soon
see
as the toy train stops at
Boxville Station, you
may
them making
a bee-line for the hotel.

at
There are splendid accommodations

Bandbox.
need
to
Hotel
only
it
The meals
are always good.
You
pretend what the dolls want and then give

[48]
HOTEL BANDBOX
to
them.
Some want
is
their steak well

it,
done and are
very particular about

right
but the waiter always does

satisfied.
and everybody
always
to
After dinner
the guests take a

the
walk over
Mirror Lake and watch
man who
is
fishing on the bridge there.
Or
else,
perhaps, they
sit
on the hotel piazza and watch the

square to get water at the
people come
to the village
town pump.
Hurry, hurr}^ with the
scissors!
Bring the glue-pot or some paste:
We
must make a Hotel Bandbox,

proprietor's in haste!
The
Touring through the Boxlan5 Country, Penny dolls may wish to stay In this splendid Hotel Bandbox
That we're
building here to-day!
[49]
THE SHOE-BOX APARTMENT HOUSE

Make
a Shoe-box Apartthe
ment House: one shoe-box with

cover, one small
whole
of
its
box about two inches long, and small
boxes and spools for furnishing the apartment house.
You may make
whole row of apartment houses.
They are shoe-boxes that are placed to stand on end. Windows are drawn upon the fronts of the boxes as they stand. Each apartment house must have a porch
and front door
as well.
Would you
Take
you.
its
like to erect an
apartment house?
Find
a shoe-box, then.
cover
off.
Stand your box on end with
the opening at back.
Let the bottom of the box face

it
Mark
its
ofif
upon
three
window
spaces, each
with
base five inches from the top of your box.
See that end windows are equally distant from the

sides of
your box.
Make
each
window two
inches
high and one inch wide.
Arrange second-story windows evenly between top

[50]
THE SHOE-BOX APARTMENT HOUSE

and base of your box, and place below them the firstLeave a place for a door just above story window.
the base of your
box
at the left, as the picture of
Shoe-
box Apartment will show you.

little
Make
spaces
the door a
larger than your
window
about
to
it,
three
a
inches high and two inches wide.
Next
draw
window space for the first-floor window. The windows may be cut out, if you like. (For windows, see Diagram One, A, page 166.) Cut out
the squares you have
base.
drawn on
to
top, side lines,
and
Back
of each
window
opening, paste a bit of

glass.
waxed sandwich paper

the front of the
sashes.
this
form
Outline on
box around the windows, the windowpaints to do
Use black ink or water-color
work.
Paste tissue- or lace-paper curtains over

the apartment house to
the
the
waxed paper inside windows trim.
make
(For
top
the
Cut
line,
the door of the apartment house out.
door, see
Diagram Two, A, page 167.) Cut the down the side next to the window, and across
roof
half of a small
itself is
base line.
The porch
the doorway.
is
box glued over
The porch
the half of a box
glued below the doorway.

[SI]

Now,
adding
put the finishing touch
a flat roof.
to the
building by
Take
the cover of your shoe-box.
Cut
off all its rims except at
one end,
a third of the
it ofif
way
around.
fit
This end
it
is
the roof.
Cut
with
it
rims and
place.
down over
the building.
Paste
in
The
floors of the
apartment are made by pasting
the rest of the cover into the inside of the box, horizontally.
half.
Cut the remaining part of the cover
in
Fit each section into the box where the floors
should be.
box.
Glue the edges
that are fitted into the
Let them dry thoroughly.
Then, you may
furnish the interior with boxcraft furniture such as

is
used in arranging Hotel Bandbox.
Penny
dolls
and Noah's Ark ladies will surely take
up
light housekeeping there, if their husbands ap-
prove.
Jinks.
In the picture, you will see the janitor, Mr.
The Noah's Ark
ladies
have come
to
look at
the rooms.
There is a fine apartment "To Let" in Shoe-box FlatBut those who wish to rent it may not own a dog or cat! When Mrs. Noah came there, the Janitor said, "No!
We cannot
take your animals!
We cannot
[S2]
have you
go!"
Boxville Apartment House.

large
cover.
This
roof
is
is
made from
shoe-box.
Its
the
end of the
Here
is
furniture for the Apartment
House and
for
Bandbox Hotel.
Boxville Residence which
is
made from a deep

its
letter-paper
box and
cover.
The Garage
is
made from
a deep square letter-paper box.
The cover
of
the
box
is
its
roof.
A BOXVILLE RESIDENCE
Making a Boxville
its
Resicover,
dence: a deep, square letter-paper box with

the cover of a
flat
letter-paper box about ten inches
long, the cover of a drawer-like pill-box,
some glacine
waxed paper, some artificial flowers, lace-paper cut from candy boxes, and some box rims.
or
See what a darling

Boxville Residence!
little
house
have made for a

of
The husband
Mrs. Doll,
to
who owns
You
the house, goes in his
motor car
Boxville
Station every morning.
He commutes
to
Boxtown.
can see Mrs. Doll and her

to
sister in the picture.
Mr. Doll has gone

you will
see
Boxtown, but in the picture
of the garage that goes with the Boxville Residence
Mr.
it
Doll's motor and the chauffeur.
Don't you think
would be fun
you will have
to
make
a Boxville
to
Residence like mine?

First, of course,
I will tell
you how
do
it.
to
hunt for
a deep,
square letter-paper box, and the other materials that

are needed to use in building.
When you
have found
[53]

your box, turn
it
over so that
it
stands upside-down.
Take
off the cover.
That
will be the roof, but
you are
not ready yet to put the roof on to the building.
Upon two opposite sides of the box, mark off two window spaces. (For windows, see Diagram One, A, page 166.) Each window space measured off, with
help of ruler and pencil, must be an inch and a half
square.
Have the bases of the windows, as well as their tops, made a uniform distance from the base of the box building. Each window should be an
equal distance from the corner of the box nearest
it.
When
window
house.
the two sides of the

spaces,
box are marked out with
you can begin upon the front of the

door space about four inches high
let it
Draw
and two inches broad, and
come an inch from
the right-hand side of the box building that faces
you.
167.)
(For front door, see Diagram Two, C, page

Let the base of your door space come on the
very outer rim of the front of the box.
When
its
you
have outlined the door, draw
a square in
upper
is
part to indicate where the plate-glass
window
to
be in the door.
Cut the top
line of
your door and
down made
its
right side.
for the
Then cut out the square you window in it. There, the door will
[S4]
open and
close,
you
see,
when you bend
it
on the side
pasted
where
the hinge should be!
Waxed paper
in a square
under the window opening will make

Lace-paper makes curtains.
its
the glass
window.
round-headed paper-fastener with
prongs pushed
to
through the cardboard door and bent
one side will
make
door-knob with a
latch.
By
draw
turning the knob
you can open or
fasten the front door tight.

is
After the door
finished,
window
space
half-way between the door and the corner of the

building on the front of the house.
Now, you
can
begin
to
cut out
all
the windows.
Cut each one
evenly, and paste a square of
paper back of each, inside

glass.
waxed paper or glacine the box, to make window-
You
can outline the window-frames on the
outside, using black ink or paint.
Doesn't the box begin to look like a real house?
Yes
But
it
has no roof yet!

Slip
it
Where
is
the cover of
your box?
down over
the building.
There
you are!
will
The cover
a fine
of a small drawer-like pill-box
make
chimney.
Glue
it
on end
to the top
of the roof at the center.
Where
is
the
flat
it
letter-box cover?
That
is
to
be
the porch.
Place
on the
[SS]
floor or table,
and then

brush the rims of the box that
is
your Boxville
it
Resi-
dence with paste or glue
so that
will stand well
back upon
this
veranda.
Be
careful not to have any

is
paste under the door.
See, there
just a
the front porch.

a
The veranda
and pasted
railing
is
box rim cut from
box
to the
edge of the veranda on the cover
of the letter-paper box.

If
you wish
to
have
a step
up
to the front
this.
porch, a
small box or
its
cover will
make
is
My
is
Boxville Residence has a garden.
Mrs. Doll
also.
very fond of gardens, and so

the garden
Mr. Doll
It
made
to
from
hat.
a
I
wreath of flowers that was
on an old summer
made
is
an arbor.
was easy
ends and
make
is
that.
The arbor
cut from a candy box.

it
It
just half the rim.

it
I stood
up on
course,
its
trimmed
have
with the flowers.
Of
if
you play
out-of-doors with your Boxville Residence, you can

real flowers to play with.
You
can lay out walks

in the
with pebbles and gravel when you do not play

house.
I
made
a fountain or a pool for the
garden
At almost any penny store you can buy a little round mirror that will make a garden pool. You can make a sun-dial also. It Is a spool
from
a hand-glass.
with a pill-box placed over one end of

[56]
it.
You
will
have
to
mark
off the face of the sun-dial

this
with pencil.
Don't you think that
makes
I
a comfortable
home
for a Boxville resident?

a little doll, so that I
I do.
almost wish I were
might open the front door and
begin furnishing the inside of the house with box

furniture and spools.
'Mid
There
pleasures and palaces where'er you
is
no place
like Boxville for a little doll's
may roam, home
A charm from the fairies seems magic play there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met elsewhere.
[57]
THE BOXVILLE GARAGE OR STABLE

Make
a Boxville Garage
its
or Stable: one deep letter-paper box with
cover.
Here
of
a
is
a toy garage.
It belongs to the residence
Mr. Doll
garage like
of Boxville.
it?
Would you
like to
make
The box you

standing upon
will
will need to use for
making
it
garage
must be deep and square.

its
Place
upon
the table
rims.
Then, the bottom of the box
become
the top of your building,

it
and you may

to
place the cover over this and glue

roof.
make
a flat
Upon
the front of your box,

size.
draw
a large square
four inches in
Let the base of

of the box.
this
square come
is
upon the outer rim

door, see
line.
The
square
to
be
the large double door of the garage.
(To cut the

top
cut
Diagram Two, B, page 167.) Cut the Cut the base line. From top to base line
[58]
THE BOXVILLE GARAGE OR STABLE

another line dividing the doorway into halves
the doors.
to
form
The
doors will
fold
outward when you have

if
finished cutting them.
Paint them green,
you wish.
a
On
each side of your box, you
may draw
window
inches
with blinds.
The window should be two

a line vertically
square, and should be placed in the center of each

side.
Draw
from top
to base of the
window
This
halves.
space to
make
the divisions for the blinds.
line should divide the
window
space evenly into
(To cut window with

out.
blinds, see
One, B, page 166.) Cut across the top of
Diagram each window
you have marked

cut
its
Cut down
its
center line, and
base line. Press the cardboard outward against

little
the sides of the

the blinds to
building
the door.
is
to
make
blinds.
Color
match
There!
The garage
finished.
Wind up
it
your
toy automobile, and let us see
how
nicely
runs right
through the doorway!

Here is Boxville Garage just the very toy For an automobile owned by a small boy! Takes a half a second just to cut a door And two little windows. There is nothing more! Anyone can make it, for the garage here
Is a
box of cardboard.
Isn't
it
just dear/
[59]
MAKING A BOXVILLE GARDEN

half of
Make
a Greenhouse: the
seven inches long
as
some deep box from

five inches
five to
and about
is
deep (the half of a box such
usually to be found at a hardware store), about
twelve square inches of cardboard from which to cut

a roof,
and a sheet of waxed sandwich paper.
Make
a Pergola: half of an
ordinary white shoe-box, and a strip of cardboard
about thirteen inches long and seven inches wide.
artificial flowers,
Make
the Garden Itself:
some spools for flower-stands, sanda
paper for roadway and gravel walks,

crape paper for grass, a long box
penny mirror
a hedge,
for a sunken-garden pool, boxes for benches, green

to
make
moss, pebbles, shells, and pretty twigs from out-ofdoors.
It
is
such fun to play in a garden that I

It belongs to
made one
for Boxville.
Mr, Penny
Doll's resi-
[60]

dence.
It has a pergola
and
a greenhouse, a
sunken
pool, flower-stands, gravel walks, benches, and every-
thing that a garden should have.
Green crape paper placed upon

the garden lawn.
the floor will

in strips
make
Sandpaper cut
and laid
upon
it
forms the garden paths.

If
roadway may be
made from sandpaper too.

brown paper
will answer.
you have none, ordinary

long box covered over
with green crape paper looks
just like a
garden hedge.
The paper should

quite
flat.
be pasted over the sides of the box

stands are
Garden
made by
it
gilding spools
and then poking
into each spool, as
stands upright,
some
artificial flowers.
is
Greenhouse for the garden
made from
the deep
half of some box about seven inches long and five
inches deep.
If
you
like,
your greenhouse
may be
made smaller, but this size is an easy one to handle. The box itself forms the greenhouse building. Its roof is of bent cardboard, and the glass in it is waxed
sandwich paper.
Shall I
tell
you how
to
make
the greenhouse so that
you may make one

the
like it?
to use
First, take the half of

it
box you intend

at base.
and place
upon
its
rims,
open
[6i]

Next, one inch above the base, on each corner make
a pencil dot.
Cut
the top off the rims of your box.
On
sides
each
eiid rim, at center,
make
a pencil dot to
indicate the middle top of each box end.
(Leave
without marks.)
the center top point on each end cut
left, to
From
down
diagonally to right and

of the building
form the peaked part

(See
under the
roof.
Diagram Three,
to
CC, page
170.)
sides of the
Then, cut the long

lengthwise.
box
meet
these,
Remove
the cardboard at the top of
each long
side.
Now,
to
fit
in the point at
one end of the lower half of
the greenhouse building, cut out windows.
Cut them
your box building.
page 166, for windows.)

transparent
cut a
Diagram One, A, Back of each, paste some

(See
If
waxed sandwich paper. triangular window in the point

is
you
like,
of the building
which
to
be under the roof.

a door to
Between the lower two windows, cut

fit
one inch wide and two

size.
inches high should be a
good
(For cutting
a door, see
Diagram Two,
A, page
167.)
[62]

You may make
Cut
this roof
the roof two inches longer and four
inches wider than the size of the base of your box.
from your cardboard.

its
Fold
it
through
(See
the center of
long sides
to
make
a gable roof.
Diagram Three,
C, page 170.)
this roof, cut
In each side of
out windows.
Paste
back of their openings some waxed sandwich paper.
Glue the roof
to the
lower half of the building.
Any
boxes
small boxes that you have will form flowerfilled
when
with small
artificial flowers.
They
may go into the greenhouse. To make the pergola, you will need
of a white shoe-box.
its
the lower half

it
Take
the
box and stand
upon
rims, base at top,
opening below.
that
Cut out the cardboard

ners on the side that
was the bottom
of the
box, leaving a narrow rim around this between cor-
was
this
box bottom.
Then, cut
off
each end of the box, leaving the

like this first cut-
margin around corners and top rim

ting in the box.
In the two long rims of the box cut pillars on each

side.
(See
Diagram Seven, page

strips
181.)
Cut two long cardboard

board
from some
Bristol-
each
two inches longer than the length of

[63]

your box.
Glue one
inch-wide
strip
each over the top of the
pergola, lengthwise, over the long sides of the box.
Cut
five
strips of
cardboard two inches
longer than the width of your box, and glue each

across the opening
pergola box.
made by cutting the top from the Each strip should be evenly crossed
pillars.
artificial flowers left
between opposite
If
you have any pretty
from
your garden and greenhouse, twine them around the

pillars of
your finished pergola.
have a gardener for
Shepherd.
I
my garden. His name is Karl He came to me in a box of toy lambs that

him Karl Perhaps, among your
I called
bought
at the ten-cent store.
because he looked so German.

playthings, you have a
little
figure like him.
Look
and
see.
am
sure you will find a gardener.

Boxville Garden,
Here's the
little
Just as cunning as can be;
Bring your
It
is
scissors
and the paste jar!
made with boxes
see!
There shall be There shall
a pretty greenhouse, be an arbor, too;
Paths and flower-beds we'll lay out
Oh,
there will be fun for you!
[64]
Boxville Greenhouse
is
cut
from the half of

It
a deep
box such as hardware
merchants use on their shelves.
has a roof
made from cardboard.
The
glass
is
waxed
paper.
The Pergola
is made from the lower half of a white shoe-box. white cardboard are glued across the top.
Strips of
The Boat-house
The
or.
Yacht Club
is
made from
the
half
of a
deep box
about eight inches long.

flagstaff is a pencil.
Its
roof and floor are shoe-box covers.
Boxcraft Houseboat
is
made from
the lower half of a plain shoe-box.

rest of the boat.
Two
shoe-box covers make the
BOXVILLE BOAT-HOUSE OR YACHT CLUB

Make
a Boxville Boatsix inches
house: the lower half of a deep box about

long,
and
also
two shoe-box covers.

is
Boxville Boat-house
made from
roof
is
an oblong box
Its
about two-thirds the size of a shoe-box.

a shoe-box cover,
wharf
is
and
its
another shoe-box
cover.
If
you wish
to cut a lake
from
a sheet of silver
is
paper, the boat-house or yacht club

for this play.
the very thing
Any water toys, such as swans, ducks, fish, or frogs, may swim on Silver Paper Lake, and from your yacht club, parties of fishermen may angle for magnetized fish. The boat-house may be a part
of the
summer attractions of Hotel Bandbox To make a boat-house building, you will

your box over upon
its
its
in season.
first
need
to turn
rims so that
its
bottom
becomes
top.
Draw
box.
a three-inch square
its
on one short end of your
Let
base
come
to the
extreme edge of the
[65]

box rim.
This square
is
to
be the door you see in
the picture.
of this square.
Draw
a vertical line
down
the center
This gives two doors for the doorway.

see
(To cut double door,

167.)
Cut
across the top
Diagram Two, B, page line and down the center to

the two halves of the
the outer rim.
Bend outward
is
doorway.
The dow is
boat-house
to
to
have windows, and each winit.
have an awning over

first
To make windows
side of
with awnings,
draw on each long

a half
your
box, two one-inch squares.
Each square should be

from
a corner of the
drawn about an inch and

box.
Each square should be half-way between
top
and bottom of the building. (For windows with awnings, see
Diagram One, C, page

and across the base
to
166.)
Cut down both

the cut card-
side lines
line.
Bend
board outward and upward

this
form an awning. Color

using your crayons or
awning with red
stripes,
water-color paints.
When
your
all
windows
are cut, then you
may
place
little
building at the rear of the shoe-box cover
which forms the wharf.
Over
the top of your building,
fit
another shoe-box
cover to form a projecting roof over the wharf.

[66]
BOAT-HOUSE OR YACHT CLUB
long pencil will be a
fine flagstaff.
Run
its
point through the front of the boat-house roof, and
glue to the top of the pencil a triangular piece of

colored paper to
make
little
the pennant.
My
Boxville people
Have
a club-house
to
where they go
do some
fishing,
When they want Or they want
to take a row.
It stands beside a paper lake,
Upon my play-room
It has
floor;
some pretty awnings,

a dock, beside a door!
And
Upon
I
the lake float water toys.
put moss by the shore

pebbles: they
I'll
And
make
splendid rocks!
Some day
find
some more!
[67]
THE HOUSEBOAT ''BOXCRAFT"

Make
a Houseboat:
the
covers of two large shoe-boxes, and the lower half of

a child's shoe-box.
Here
is
a jolly houseboat, the
very thing
to sail
on
Silver Paper Lake.
Little
dolls
may spend
make
their
vacation upon
it.
Would you
It
is
like to
a house-
boat
to
play with?
not difficult.
First, take the
two shoe-box covers and glue them

flat.
top to top.
Place them on the floor
There
is
the
lower half of the houseboat.
Upon
of the
both long sides of your small shoe-box, draw
three one-inch squares, keeping the two at either end
same
side equally distant
from the nearest
corner of the box, and making the third
window on
each side half-way between them.
with awnings, see

the
(To cut windows Diagram One, C, page 166.) Cut

outward and upward
to
window
squares at both sides and along their base

the cardboard
lines.
Bend
make
the awnings.
Color these with red
stripes,
using either chalks or water-color paints.

[68]
THE HOUSEBOAT "BOX CRAFT"

On
the front and rear ends of the houseboat,
you
will need a door
and window.
Make
it
an upright
oblong space for the door.
Mark
out with pencil
about three inches high from the rim of the box.
window beside each door. (To cut door Cut top line space, see Diagram Two, A, page 167.) and down one side. Bend the door outward on the
a
Make
third side as
if it
were on
a hinge.
is
flagstaff for the
houseboat
made by
pressing
the point of a long pencil

the houseboat in front.
down through
the top of
paper pennant
may
be
glued
to the side of the pencil.
piece of string will
make
little
a tow-line for the
houseboat.
Fasten
start
it
to
any
donkey or toy horse

on a voyage around
is
you have, and

the
penny
dolls
play-room
to sail
floor.
The
houseboat, of course,
It
not
meant
upon dangerous water.
might be
safely anchored on the shore of
Mirror Lake or Silver
Paper Lake.
a litde houseboat with some windows and a door, made an inland voyage all around the play-room floor! At last I moored my houseboat beside my little chair: There was a carpet hassock that was an island there.
I built I
And
[69]
CAMP BOX ON MIRROR LAKE

Make Camp Box:

to
yard
or two of green crape paper for grass and foliage of

trees,
two or three clodies-plns
make
tree-trunks,
to
a sheet of silver
paper or a cheap ten-cent mirror
form a "lake," the halves of shallow letter-paper

boxes to
make tents, and any pebbles, you have among your treasures.
It
is
moss, or shells
great fun to
as
make
Mirror Lake
Camp
much fun as being in a real camp! Mirror Lake Camp may be made on the play-room floor.
almost
First, if
flat
you have some green crape paper, lay

floor.
it
on the
if
This
is
the grass.
silver paper, cut out a circle
Next,
of
it,
you have some

it
and paste
to the
crape paper
to
form
a lake.
Instead of the silver paper, you
may
substitute a
cheap mirror.
Place
this
it.
under the crape paper and
cut out a circle above
You
will need a grove of trees near the shore of
[70]
Camp Box
on Mirror Lake. Its tents are made from the halves of shallow boxes. Trees are made of clothespins.
The Boxville
Gips}- Cart
is
made from
a correspondence-card box.
CAMP BOX ON MIRROR LAKE

your
lake.
These
trees are
made by
standing some
air.
clothes-pins on end with forks in the
Cut some
forks.
It
green paper and press
it
in
between the
makes the foliage of
trees.
The
box
tents are
made from
the half of a shallow white
like a letter-paper box.
To make
may
a tent, cut
through each long side rim of your box

top or bottom of the cover, as the case
the box
as far as the
be.
Bend
(For
downward
to
each side of
this cutting,
making
a tent roof, slanting to each side
downward.
cutting a tent, see
Diagram Three, , page 171.) You may have as many tents in your camp as you
Perhaps your
tin soldiers
like.
might
like an
encamp-
ment on
the shores of
Mirror Lake.
Small oblong
box covers will make smaller

it is
tents for these.
When
summer, maybe
it
would be
nice,
on some warm,
sunny day,
to take the tents
outdoors under the trees
on the lawn and make a really true camp on the really

true grass, with real
growing things for
trees in a
woods.
Perhaps
so!
Cut
that
bits of twigs
and use these for
trees.
Pebbles
will help to
is
make
a rocky shore for a real
water lake
Its sides
a shallow pie-plate filled
with water.
should be covered with moss or short grass.

[71]
Of

course,
after playing out-of-doors with
the
camp
if
buildings, you will have to pick
them up, when playI
time
is
over, for the cardboard tents will be spoiled
you
let
them
it!
stay out over night.
know
it
because
I let
I tried
had
a really darling little doll
and
her stay out in a tent after
my
play was finished.

all
It
I
rained in the night and she was
spoiled
and
is
had
to
make
new
tent, too.
I think you'll like to
know about
ter to
this so
you won't
try
it.
It really
bet-
pick up after play, I think!

I
made
a grove of clothes-pin trees,
And had
a splendid time with these!
My
I
china rabbits ran in play

trees the
Beneath the
whole long day!

too
made some little camp tents, was a jolly thing to do Some penny dolls a picnic laid
It
I
Beneath the green crape-paper shade.
[72]
THE GIPSY CART OF BOXVILLE HIGH-
WAY
a
Make
as
Toy Gipsy
Cart:
deep oblong box such

in, also five
correspondence cards are
packed
square inches of cardboard, four
round-headed paper-fasteners, and two small boxes.
Do
you think
like the
it
would be fun
to
make
is
a gipsy
wagon
one
in the picture?
It
a very simple
thing to make.
First, find a
box such
as
correspondence cards come
in
from the stationery
store.
Take
its
high cover
ofif,
and cut from the lower part of the box almost
all
of
the deep inner rim, leaving only about a half-inch
of
it all
around.
Put the cover back over
this,
and
is
glue the two parts of the box together.

to
The box
to
be the gipsy wagon now.
door will need
be
cut at one end of the box, and
windows
rim.
its
will need to be
made on the sides of the box Turn the box over so that
L73]
base becomes the top

of your wagon.
Make
the outline of a door with
pencil on one end of the box.
To make
base
it,
mark
off
an upright oblong space an inch wide and two inches
and a half high.
come at the very edge of box rim. (To cut door, see Diagram Two, A, page 167.) Cut one side line from the base of
its
Have
the
box up
to the top line,
and cut along the top
line of the upright figure
you have drawn.

a little door.
Bend
See,
it
the cardboard
outward
to
make
will open or close as
you bend
it.
Next, make the windows on the sides of the
cart.
You may make

to cut
these with or without shutters.

shutters,
in
If
you make them without
you will only need
two one-inch squares
each side of your box.
Each should be evenly distant from a corner. (To cut plain windows, see Diagram One, A, page 166.)
If,
however, you wish

of your
to
have shutters on the

at top
windows
base.
wagon, cut these squares

This gives you the
and
Then
cut a line through each center, vertically,

shutters.
from top
to base.
Press
them back against
the outside of the cart.
(For
making
blinds, see
Diagram One, 5, page
166.)
Window-shutters and door may be painted.
Dry
Color
them while you make wheels for the

[74]
cart.
GIPSY CART OF BOXVILLE

them with water-color
red.
HIGHWAY
green or
paints.
Make them
from
stiff
The wheels
are circles cut

to
cardboard.
If
Find your compass
help draw them round.

a small
you
have no compass, use the outline of
round
saucer about two inches and a half in diameter to
guide you in drawing the four wheels in outline.
Draw
hub and spokes on
each,
if
you
like.
When
you have drawn them, cut each
out,
and
press through the axle of each one a round-headed
paper-fastener.
Bend
its
prongs
to either side after
you have pressed the wheel
into place
if
on the
cart.
The wheels may
be glued,
you have no paper-
fasteners to use for
making
axles.
Your cart will need made from the lower

rims,
a seat for the driver.
This
is
half of a small,
narrow box
end
about two inches in length.
Cut
to
off the short
and glue one long rim

it
your wagon
in front,
so that
makes the dashboard and

under the
the seat
seat.
floor of the front
of the cart
this to
Paste a small pill-box on
make
itself.
At
the rear of your cart, you

strip of
may make some
steps
it
by folding a
box rim twice and fastening
under the door with mucilage.

[7S]

Shafts for the cart are two narrow strips of card-
board pasted
to the
forward part of the wagon.

is
There!
The
gipsy cart
finished.
Penny
dolls
or tumble toys will be the gipsies.

Here come
the gipsies a-jogging up the road!
They're going up
to Boxville. The horse has quite a load! Good fortune's coming to you, and it isn't far away: We're going with the penny dolls a-gipsying in play!
[76]
THE SHEPHERD'S HUT AND THE

SHEEPFOLD
Making the Shepherd's
Hut:
yard or two of green crape paper, some cor-
rugated cardboard, half a small square box about four

inches high, and,
a lake.
if
you have
it,
silver
paper
to
make
Here
[
in the picture
you
see the shepherd's cottage.
had
a little flock of
in a box,
white woolly lambs given me.
They came
with a shepherd boy and his dog
to tend them.
One
day, I decided to build a cottage for the shep-
herd and
make
a sheepfold for his flock.

if
You
you
can
make one
will tell
for your toy lambs, too, and,

to
like, I
you how
do
it.
First, lay
some green crape paper upon the
floor
to
make
to
grass.
There must be
grass,
you know.
Of
course,
if
you have no green crape paper, you will

is
need
pretend that the carpet of the floor

[77]
grass.

Perhaps
it
will answer just as well.
But,
if
you have
the paper, you can
make
a hill or
It
two behind the

is
place where you intend to build.

ting
made by
put-
some blocks or books under the paper.

strips.
Next, I made a long fence by cutting some corrugated cardboard into long
Three rows made
the width of this long fence.
After you have cut

rim.
your fence, stand

strip at
it
upon
its
one end, you can make a
By bending the gate. The fence is

things.
made
of very heavy corrugated cardboard, such as
comes wrapped around very heavy

a lighter kind that
I
There
is
you may
It
also use.
From
this kind,
made my
sheep-pen.
jar.
came wrapped around
small glass
To make
the sheep-pen, cut a long strip of the
corrugated cardboard.
Cut
it
crosswise instead of
lengthwise, and slip through each undulation in the
cardboard the end of a toothpick.

efifect
This gives the
of a picket fence.
The
shepherd's hut
Its
is
made from
is
the lower half
of a deep box.
roof
a piece of corrugated
cardboard cut long and bent through the middle
downward.
To make
the house, turn your [78]
box over
so that the
Sheepfold and Shepherd's Cote. Corrugated cardboard and fences.
is
used for roof
The Bridge over Mirror Lake.
It
is
made from
a long shallow
box with
a cover.
SHEPHERD'S HUT AND THE SHEEPFOLD

bottom becomes the top and the box
rims.
rests
upon
its
Measure the
Glue each
page
to
size of
its
fit
ends,
and cut two triangular

(For- cutting
pieces of cardboard to
over them and form gables.
an end of the house.
triangular roof supports, see

169.) a
Diagram Three, BB,
Cut
door and a window in the front of your house.

first
Both must
be outlined on the box in pencil.
Mark
the door an inch
wide and two inches high, an

edge of the box rim.
oblong with base

door, see
at the
(For
Diagram Two, A, page 167.) Cut the top line and down one long side. Bend the door outward One-inch squares may be as if it were on a hinge. cut in the box rim to make windows. (For cutting a window, see Diagram One, A, page 166.) Cut the
square on
all
four sides.
the roof in the point of the
Place a
gable,
if
window under
like.
you
The
this
roof of the cottage
is
made by measuring,
first,
the size of the building you wish to cover.
Measure
on your corrugated cardboard, and add three

its
inches to
length and breadth.

to
Fold the corrugated

(See
cardboard together
make
[79]
a pointed roof.

Diagram Three,
ing,
C, page 170.)
Glue
is
this to the build-
and the
little
shepherd's hut
a
finished.
it,
You may make

where
the sheep
landscape of mountains behind

to graze.
may go
this.
These are blocks
or boxes covered with crape paper. or paste in doing
Do
is
not use glue
The paper
be
merely folded
over them.
pretty stream
cut strip of silver
drink at a stream,
I
made from an irregularly paper. The woolly sheep love to You can see the lake I am sure.
It
may
made
for
my
landscape.
was
a mirror.
A
is
rocky
ledge on the mountain-side or by the lake
made
in the
with pretty pebbles such

country.
as
you may find
Mary had
little
lamb,
its
it
fleece
was white
as
snow;
in play
little
shepherd guarded
in sheepfold, don't
it
you know!
It didn't
go to Boxville School,
grazed about
Upon
the green crape-paper field that
Mary made one
day.
rso]
BUILDING A BOX BRIDGE

Material Required to Make a Box Bridge: a long cardboard box with cover, a strip of cardboard
about ten inches long.
When
used in
you look
at the picture of
Box Bridge, you

It
will easily see, I think,
how
it is
made.
may be
and
many ways
for play.
Your
toy railway system
may have
tunnel.
a bridge as well as a freight station
box bridge may connect opposite shores
of Silver
Paper Lake, and the delivery wagon from
Boxville's General Store
may
fish
jog happily over the
bridge
to deliver
goods
at Boxville Cottage.
Guests
I
from Hotel Bandbox may
from the bridge.
am
many other things to play with it, so I will tell you how to make one, even though it does seem as if you might almost make one without
sure you will find
directions!
Take the box that you wish Remove its cover.

[8i]
to use for a bridge.

Turn
the lower half of the box over so that the
top.
bottom of the box becomes
Cut
a semicircular
piece from each long rim. This makes the long arch
of the bridge.
(See
Diagram Four, A^ page

it
173.)
its
Next, take the box cover and turn

is
so that
top
next to the top of the bridge.
The
and
lengthwise rims
it.
of the
box will be
a railing for the
roadway over
let these
Cut each end rim

be pasted each
at the corner,
end rims
to
fit
to a strip of
cardboard cut
the
width of the box, and join the bridge roadway to the road along the floor where you are playing. Each
strip of
cardboard glued
five inches long. to
to
an end of the bridge
may
be about
If
make more than one bridge, you may easily do so. The shape of your box, whether deep or shallow, will make a different kind of bridge. The landscape of your Boxville may be as full of
you wish
silver
paper
streams
and
foot-bridges,
railway
bridges, covered bridges, toll-bridges, as
you please!
London Bridge may fall down, But my Box Bridge stands true!
I'd rather
own
a Boxville Bridge
That
stands up
wouldn't you?
[82]
BUILDING A TOY WINDMILL

Material Required for Making a Windmill:
a
box made
with curved sides about
five inches deep,
a half-sheet of cardboard, and
a long pencil.
From any
make
the box.
deep box with round
sides,
you may
a windmill.
You
it,
will not need the cover of
Remove
to stand
its
and turn the lower half of the

its
box over
becomes
upon
upper rim
so that
its
top
base.
Cut
of
a small
door about an inch high in the edge

just as
of the lower
box rim,
you
see
it
in the picture
my On
The
box windmill.
its
rim, farther up, cut a
narrow window.
A'
half-inch square cut out in the box rim will

roof of the windmill
is
make
this.
round and pointed.
It
is
to
be
made from
cardboard.
To make
Cut
it,
take your
compass and draw

base of your box
a circle twice the size of the

that.
it
round
out
or about
from
this circle
of the cardboard, and
remove a quarter piece
[83]

like
a large slice cut
from
a pie.
(See
Diagram
Three, D, page 171.)
Next, lap one edge of your three-quarter circle

over
its
opposite side.
Glue
it,
it so.
This gives the

vîth
round, pointed roof.

paints.
Paint
if
you wish,
your
Color
it
bright red or brown.

to
Sails for
windmill need
be cut from a paper

soft
pattern.
This pattern must be made from

be folded easily.
paper
that
may
Pad paper
that
is
will answer.
Cut
a square of
pad paper
Fold
to
this
half the height of
your windmill.
halves
square together to
quarter-sections.
make
Cut
in
then again
make
(See
the folded quarter-section the figure
shown
for shap-
ing windmill
174.)
sails.
Diagram
its
Five, Z, page
it
Then unfold your

all
paper, and, placing
upon
cardboard, outline
around
edge with pencil.

the sail piece for
Then, cut the outline

your windmill.
sails,
out.
This
is
(For shape of pattern for windmill

Five, ZZ,')
its
see
Diagram
a hole
Make
through
center.
Press through
it
the point of a long pencil.
Make two
the roof
holes in your box, near the top,

other.
below
one hole exactly opposite the

[84]
the pencil point through these holes.

sails are in place!
Run There! The
The Windmill
is
made from
round box.
Its
roof and sails are
cardboard.
The Boxville Barn and Farmyard. The roof of shoe-box covers. The fence for the Barnyard
the barn
is
is
made
of
two
made
of a box rim.
BUILDING A TOY WINDMILL

Where
is
your toy cart?
Shall
it
go cantering over
Box Bridge to Farm? What
the mill with

a
some corn from Boxville

must be when the wind-
windy day
it
mill sails turn so fast!

I built a little windmill,
Its sails
went round
an'
round;
The miller was a tumble toy, The mill, a box I found.
The roof is made of paper, The sails are paper, too:

It
is
easy
work
to
make
one.
And
it's
lots of
fun to do!
[85]
BOXVILLE BARN AND FARMYARD

Make
a Barn and Farm-
yard: the lower half of a large shoe-box and two

shoe-box covers that
fit it,
a ten-inch square of card-
board, and the rims cut from a shallow box.
Farms
are such very interesting places that I
am
sure you will enjoy
knowing how
to
make one with
a big barn and a farmyard
where your toy animals

like the
a
may be kept. You may easily make a barn picture. You will need to have
the building.
roof.
one in the
shoe-box to
make
to cut
Two
shoe-box covers
is
make
its
gabled
Some cardboard
needed from which
supports for the roof.
Begin by turning your box over upon

that
its
its
rim
so
top becomes the base of the barn.
In one end of the barn, cut a double door.

this, first
To make
mark
a three-inch square
upon an end of
your box.
Draw
a line
down
[86]
its
center, vertically.
BOXVILLE BARN AND FARMYARD

(For double door,
see
Diagram Two, B, page

line.
167.)
Cut the top
line
and down the center
The
base
of your door should be at the edge of the
box rim.
The two
sections cut in the
cardboard make the doors.
Press each outward.
Next, you will need
to
make
the two triangular
supports for the box-cover roof. These supports must
be cut from cardboard, and each must be the width

of an end of your box, and be
made
as
high
a
as
your
box
Is
wide.
(For cutting these supports for

169.)
gabled
roof, see
to
Diagram Three, BB, page

is
Glue one
each end of your box, at the upper part.
The
roof
made from your two box

to
covers lapped
one rim under the other, lengthwise,

roof shape.
form
a gabled
The upper
part
is
glued rim under rim.
(See Diagram Three, B.)

slip
it
Let the roof dry, and then
over the triangular supports pasted at each end
of the box building to hold the roof in place.
Cut
if
a little weather-vane
like,
from a
strip of
cardboard,
you
and paste
is
it
to the front of the
barn roof.
The farmyard
stand
if
made from box
rims cut from any
shallow cardboard box you have.
you cut them with
corners.
The box rims They make a
good
enclosure.
[87]
A
The
small box, placed on end, will
cover of a small box will

Little boxes
make a shed. make a drinking-
trough.
make
lives
chicken-coops.
Mrs. Tumble Toy

in the picture.
on
my
farm.
You
Bill.
see her
chasing the pig.
Her husband's name is You can see him, too.

toys that
He
is
Have you some

farm?
would
like to live
on your
Cock-a-doodle-doo
Just run and fetch some glue,
Some
scissors,
and a shoe-box:
We'll make a farm for you!

Cock-a-doodle-doo
When
With
all
the
work
little
is
through,
We'll have a
farmyard
it,
a fence around
too!
[88]
BOX BROTHERS' ANIMAL SHOW

small boxes of
all
Make an Animal Show:

sizes, spools,
shapes and
and candya circus
box favors,
ring.
round bandbox cover
to
make
The
cover of a round bandbox
vîll
make
a splendid
circus ring.
Any
small boxes and spools you
may
to
have can be the benches for your trained animals
perform upon.
with Noah's
favors that
A
to
really
good circus may be made

Christmas and other holi-
Ark
animals, or with the candy-box
come
one
at
day
times.
tell
Shall I
you how
it.
made my
circus?
You
can
make one
First of
like
all, I
collected animals.
At
a small
candy
shop, I found a polar bear, a rhinoceros, a fox, and a

pig.
Each came with

to
loose head, because the
animals were supposed
be
filled
with candy, but I
glued the heads on
tight.
bought these animals
because they were so cheap.

[89]

They could
circus ring.
stand
I
upon spools
to
make
acts for the
painted each spool red, and pasted
over
its
hole a disk of colored cardboard.

I
From round box covers

square ones I cut benches.
made pyramids, and from

(To cut bench
for animal
show, see Diagram Six, A^ page 175.)

at
Cut
a leg
each corner of the box-cover's rim.
Remove
the
cardboard from between cuttings.
Swartzenheimer and Mulligan were

trainers.
my
animal
Each came
little
to
me
as a
dinner favor.
They
a a
were both
figures of toy
cake of sweet chocolate.
men that stood upon You can easily see what

all
splendid clown Mulligan made.
The
animals performed
kinds of tricks.
I
They
splen-
could stand upon each other's backs.

three tumble toys, besides.
didly.
I
had two or
They performed
am
sure you will have a

It
is
good time making
circus.
ever and ever so

that
much
fun, I think.
to
You can use any animals among your playthings.
you happen
have
At some toy shops, you will find celluloid animals. At Japanese shops, you will find cotton animals. In your own Noah's Ark there will be wooden ani[90]
This
is
Box
Brothers' Circus.
It is
made from
the lower part of a round
white bandbox.
view taken inside the Circus Grounds. The walls are corrugated cardboard. The cages are boxes with covers and the booth is the lower half of a candy box.
;
BOX BROTHERS' ANIMAL SHOW

mals and your Boxville people
dolls,
tumble
toys, jointed
Halloween
figures,
and favors will form the
trainers
and performers for the ''Show."
Wild animals and domestic animals may be bought at candy stores as favors. They also come in boxes at
the shops
where
toys are found.
These animals should
be small
never over four or

My
They do
five inches in length.
animals are very good

their tricks just as they should!
When What
have trained them
all,
you'll see
a fine
show
this
one will be!

it
I'm making benches And, if you like, I'll
for
tell
now,
you how.
[91]
CIRCUS TENT AND CIRCUS GROUNDS

Make
a Circus Tent:
round bandbox and
a sheet of
cardboard.
Make
Circus Cages: three
or four hardware boxes from three to five inches long.
A booth
box.
bars.
may be made from half of a flat Some cotton mosquito-netting will
letter-paper
be the cage
A circus tent
of a
is
a very easy thing to
make.
It needs
nothing but a sheet of cardboard and the lower half
round bandbox
to
make
it.
The lower
to stand
tent.
half of the
its
bandbox must be turned over
upon
rims.
is
This forms the sides of the circus
The
roof
cut from a large circle of cardboard.

First,
arrange the box to

roof.
make
sides for the tent.
Then, cut the
In the edge of the bandbox rim, cut out a piece of
cardboard the shape of tent canvas looped back
to
make an
entrance.
Draw some
[92]
folds
upon
this
with
CIRCUS TENT
blue pencil.
paints instead.
If
AND CIRCUS GROUNDS
you prefer, use your water-color
When
this is done,
glue across the top of your band-
box some
made.
strips of string to
form
tent ropes.
The
roof of the tent, round and pointed,
may
next be
Take
a large sheet of
is
cardboard and draw upon
it
a circle that
half again as large around as the base
of your bandbox.
Cut
this out.
Cut from
(See
the circle
a quarter piece like the slice of a pie.
Diagram
Three, D, page 171.)
Lap
the cut sides of this
three-quarter circle, and glue together to
make
pointed roof like that of a circus

roof
is
tent.
When
the
dry, slip
tent
it
is
upon the top of

done.
the hat-box, and
your circus
If
you find some corrugated cardboard,

and pressed
so that
it
it
may
be
its
slightly curled
will stand on
rim, to
make
board fence for the circus enclosure.

1
Of course, you must have a fence! Of course Hardware boxes that come with covers double and close telescope fashion make very good circus cages. To make these cages, you will need to cut top and bottom from the boxes, leaving rims only. You may,
if
you wish, keep
very narrow margin of rim around

[93]

the top and bottom cutting of your box.
Paste strips
of coarse netting, like cotton mosquito netting, over
each opening of the box.

the
It should be
glued inside
box from side
to side.
This makes bars for the

to
cages.
(For cutting
box
make
a cage, see
Dia-
gram Eight, page 182.) Wheels may be added

animals
to
the cages, so that the
may go
out on parade.
The wheels
are
small circles cut from cardboard.
There should be
they are cut out
its
four for each cage, of course.
When
from the cardboard,

to the base of a
fasten each through
center
cage by a round-headed paper-fasof the paper-fastener should be
tener.
The prongs
bent to right and
left inside the
covers of the box.
This holds wheels

ers,
firm.
to
If
you have no paper-fastenraffia,
sew the wheels

to
your box with
or glue
them
a
your box.
grounds
A booth for the circus

box on
its
is
may
be
made from
Stand the
box about three or four inches

long
side.
first
in size.
Cut
in
its
back an awning. The
awning
the
made
by drawing an oblong space upon

this outline
back of the box, cutting
down
at
each
side line
pressed
The cardboard is then outward and upward to make the awning.

and across
its
base.
[94]
CIRCUS TENT
(See
AND CIRCUS GROUNDS

C, page 166, for cutting awning.)
stripes.
Diagram One,
Color the awning with red

Side-show
the tents of
tents for circus
grounds are made like
Camp
make
Box.
(See Diagram Three, E,
page
171, for cutting the

it
rim of a shallow box and
bending
to
a tent.)
All toy figures that you can muster
tumble
Box
toys,
wooden
dolls,
penny
dolls,
Noah's Ark
ladies, shep-
herds and shepherdesses, should go to
Brothers'
Circus on the play-room
floor.
If
you look among

circus,
I
your
toys,
you will find animals for the

cut
know.
They may even be animals

pictures.
from old
magazine
One day I made a (A bandbox was

But
it
circus
the tent),
I advertised in Boxville,
didn't cost a cent!
The penny
I
dolls of Boxville
Turned out on Circus Day! made pretend sell peanuts,
And
I tell
you,
it
was gay
[9S]
BOXTOWN ZOO GARDEN

Make
Boxtown Zoo:
some shoe-boxes,
toothpicks to
their covers, strips of cardboard or
make
bars for cages.
A zoo
cage
all
is
really a splendid thing to
make.
You
can
your wild animals
Noah's
Ark
animals,
or whatever other ones you
may happen
to have.
The
cotton animals that are bought in Japanese stores,
"three for five," are just right for zoo animals.
You
can buy chenille monkeys, one for a penny, at the toy

shops.
When
be
you
start to
build your zoo, the cages will
made from
boxes.
Cut out
a large square
from
each side of the rim. Toothpicks make bars for cages.
They
will need to be pressed
down through
in the
the top
If
of the box over openings
you cut
box
rims.
you have no toothpicks, you may make bars for the

cages by pasting very narrow strips of paper or card-
board inside the box cages over the openings

[96]
in the
^^^H
BOXTOWN ZOO GARDEN

box rims.
(For cutting a zoo cage,
see
Diagram
Eight, page 182.)
Dens
taken
for animals are boxes that have their covers
off.
These boxes must be turned over
to stand
on their upper rims.
Doors are cut
in the
edge of
box rims,
as
you
see
them
in the picture.
Rims
closures. Little
cut from box covers
make
fences for en-
box covers make feeding-troughs.
"Do
not
worry the animals!"

I
This
is
the rule of
all zoos.
have a Hon, and a bear,

I
have a
tiger, too!
A monkey,
And
I
and a "nelephant,"
so I
made
in
a zoo!
put a tiger
An',
if
a cage,
you're good to-day,

I
I'll
show you how

it's
made
it,
For
lots of
fun to play.
[97]
BOXTOWN HOSE HOUSE

a
Making a Hose House:

six or seven inches long,
box deep and square, about
and the shallow square cover of some larger box.

If
you own
is
a toy fire-engine or a
hook and ladder,
there
every reason
that
why
you
it
should have a home.

is
The engine-house
from
ting a square
see in the picture

It
is
made
cut-
a deep, square box.
quickly
made by
doorway
in one side of the
box rim
and by adding
a flat roof.
Turn your box over

its
so that
it rests
inverted
upon
rims.
Outline a three- or four-inch square on one

Its
end of your box.
base must
come
at the
edge of
your cardboard box rim.
Draw
tically.
a line
down
the center of this square, ver-
Cut with
scissors
up
this line
and across the
top line.
This gives two doors, that should be pressed

sides of
outward against the
your box.
See
Diagram
Two, B, page
167, for
making
the double doorway.)
Place over the top of the box the cover of a larger

[98]
BOXTOWN HOSE HOUSE

box, and the hose house will be finished.
Why,
I
it
took you no time at
all to
do
that,
its
did
it?
Let's see
how
the toy engine looks inside

I
new building
have a
little
engine,
And
it
clangs across the floor
Right into Boxville Hose House,
Where
they've opened wide
its
door.
[99]
HOW TO MAKE A WIGWAM

a
Make
a
the
Wigwam:
half
round bandbox cover and
few small
sticks or
pencils.
Why,
one
of course,
you may make an Indian wigwam!

two minutes
to
It will take about

in the picture.
make one
like this
all
With
it,
you may play

help
kinds
of Indian plays.
It will
be ever such fun!

to
need half an old bandbox cover
You will 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
to-
gether.
Cut
off the point of the cone. at top of the
This makes the
opening
wigwam.
flap,
tent.
In the rim of the bent bandbox cone, cut a
and bend
this
back against the outer side of the

its
Stand the tent up upon
broad base, and there will
[lool
The Indian Wigwam
is
cut
from
half of a
round bandbox cover.
This
is
Fort Box.
It is
made from
a deep
box and
its
cover.
HOW
be
its
TO MAKE A WIGWAM
Small
sticks or thin pencils
entrance.
may
be
thrust through the top to
make
tent sticks.
Indian
tent.
symbols
I
may
be painted on the sides of the

doll,
had an Indian
in a
Big Chief Ten Cent

of wood.
I
Store.
He came
woods
home.
for
a silver
canoe
made
made
a green
him out
of crape paper,
and he lived near

floor in his
paper spring upon
my
I
play-room
All the toy animals that
have played
in
the
woods and Big Chief Ten Cent Store hunted them.

There was
ought
a deer that
came
off
our Christmas
tree,
and a whole family of china bunnies, and

just
to see
and you
mats
at
him on
the trail of
Noah's Ark
animals!
And
and you ought
to see the lovely
that are inside the Indian's tent.
made them
Kindergarten myself.
By By
the shores of Abigmirror,
the shining of
its
water,
Stood the
wigwam
it
of Big
Box
Chief,
Builded from a half a bandbox.
Dark behind
rose a
mountain
Made
of paper-covered boxes:
it,
There were pebble rocks upon
Caverns where Big Box Chief hunted.
[lOl]
FORT BOX
square box with
a spool will
its
Make
Box
fort.
Fort: a deep,
cover.
A round hair-pin box and

a fort for
to
make
cannon for the
Would you
soldiers?
like to
tell
make
your leaden
it?
Shall I
you how
do
If
your
soldiers are small, a
box three inches deep may answer

Its
for the building.

fort.
cover forms ramparts of the
To
start the
its
building of your
rims so that
its
fort,
turn your box
over upon
base becomes the top

off
of the building.
aside.
Take
the
box cover
and lay
it
Find
a pencil
and mark the openings for guns.

like
They
are
made
windows upon
the
box
front.
Draw
out, if
each about a half-inch square, and use your
ruler to
make each opening even. Cut these squares you wish. They may also be painted black,
to cut
should you prefer not
them
out.
[102]
FORT BOX
To add
of your
ramparts to the building, take the cover

its
box and make a pencil mark upon

all
rim
every half-inch
the
way
around.
Cut
sections
from the rim,

the box with
of your box.
as
its
marked, every other half-inch. Turn
rim upward and glue
it
to the
top
(For making ramparts,
see
Diagram
Three, F, page 172.)
At
the back of the fort, you
may
easily devise a
sallyport
by cutting the cardboard door shaped. (For
cutting a door, see
toy
hair-pin
Diagram Two, A, page 167.) cannon may be made with a small round box by pasting it upon the side of a spool
between the wheels of the spool.
thumb-tack
it
pressed beneath one wheel of the cannon will keep
upright and prevent rolling.

black.
If
I painted
my
guns
you
like,
you may
easily do this with water-
color paints.
An encampment
to the top of the
of tents
white box covers cut
made from small through each long side rim up

be
to
may
cover and bent,

(See
each side of the
center
downward.
Diagram Three, , page

flag, it
171, for
making
a tent.)
to
If
you happen
have a penny
will be just
the very thing to
wave over Fort Box.

[103]

You
can arrange your fort upon a sheet of crape
all
paper and make streams and woods
about
it.
The
streams will be strips of silver paper pasted onto the
green crape paper.
The woods
will be bits of twigs
pressed into the holes of spools so that the trees stand

upright.
laid
Bushes are
flat.
down
may be Rocks and mountains may be made

just bits of twigs that
from
stones.
I
had a leaden
soldier,
His name was Tommie Tin! Oh, he was brave in battle.
And
I
always fought
to
win!
made him
is
into general,
in
And he Of all my At Box
command
Boxville
Army
Fort in Boxland.
'[104]
HOW TO
BUILD A TOY CASTLE AND A
FAIRYLAND HOUSE
either round or square
Make
a Castle: any box,

six
one
at least
or seven
inches deep
is
best.
Make
little
a Fairyland House:
an oblong box deep enough for door and windows

to
be cut in
its
sides, a
few
crackers or ''goodies"
these.
possibly some
Have you
have not been
gilt or silver
paper in place of
Well,
ever played in fairyland?

there,
if
you
you can very well make

floor,
a fairy-
land upon the play-room

gather together
all
and
in
it
you may
and Blue,
the people of your Red,
and Green, and Yellow Fairy Books. These people

will be Knights, and Princesses, Witches, Goblins,
Fairies.
All are
toys,
and
it is
an easy matter
is
to get
them together
land
castle.
quite
as easy as it
to
make
a fairy-
[05]

I will tell
you how.
is
First,
you may
like to build
the castle, for that
all-important.
There never yet

It really
was
a fairyland
without that!
its
is
Find some deep box with

ters little
cover.
mat-
whether the box
round or square-sided.
castle
round box will make a high tower-like
similar to the one in the picture.
square one will
make one more like a fortress. It scarcely matters which you choose. Take the cover from your box. This is to form the castle ramparts later. High up
in the
box rim cut one or two long tower windows.
Cut
a door at the base of the rim.
Next
cut the ram-
parts in the
box cover.
(For cutting ramparts, see

172.)
Diagram Three, F, page

of your castle box
Glue these
is
to the top
and the
It
is
castle
made!
is
The
Princess
who
lives in the Castle
a
.
penny
doll
dressed in a silver robe

cess has
(made
of tinfoil)
My PrinYou
a bit
golden hair.
it
long and beautiful.
can see
in the picture.
is
The Knight
of wire.
shining.
a leaden soldier.
is
His spear
is
His shield
a brass button, polished
and
You
a
little
can easily find the proper kind of dragon
at
Japanese shop.
Mine was made

[io6]
of crockery
A TOY CASTLE AND A FAIRYLAND HOUSE

and
cost ten cents, but
you will surely find among the

crockery dragon.
cotton animals that are sold three for five cents some-
thing far better than
my
There are
the most dragon-like of cotton animals at the Japanese

stores
where
buy penny
toys.
Sometimes they
are spidery and sometimes they are like crocodiles
only they aren't crocodiles but
DRAGONS. When
mean.
you go
to a
Japanese shop and look for penny animals

I
you will know exactly what

queer, and will
They
are all
work
to
into
any fanciful fairy

castle.
tale that
you wish
to
play with your
Don't forget
make
It
the dragon a lair,
when you
have bought him.

in
it
may
be just a box with a hole

if
for the
mouth
of a den, but
you have some

lair
pretty stones and pebbles,
you can build a real

these.
on the play-room
floor
with
Almost any
fairy tale
may may
be acted out with the
Knight and the Princess.
Little toys
which you have

I
among your
will have a
I built
playthings
help out.
know you
I did.
too.
good time playing

a
at fairyland.
me
Hansel and Gretel house,
This
was
to help with
my
fairyland play.
Hansel and Gretel were two tumble toys
boy
and a
girl.
Their home was

[107]
in a Boxville Cottage.

When
like
I
they went to the woods and found the Witch's

I
House,
made that. It was in a forest of clothes-pins the trees made for Camp Box. made the fairyland house of the Witch from a
I cut
deep oblong box.
two windows
in
one rim and
a door between them, as
you
see
it
in the picture of the
fairyland house.
To
the sides of the house, I pasted
some
little
crackers and goodies.

crackers.
I
The
fairy.
roof of the house
was of
It
was very
used some pretzels for a fence around

dolls
it.
There were some small celluloid

playthings, and I
one that
off
is
made fairies of Daisy. Her dress is am
among my them. You can see

artificial
flower
my
old hat.
I took the center out of the daisy
and made
a skirt of the petals.
were cut from white

to the
tissue-paper.
The fairy's wings They were glued

little
back of her body.
All kinds of Hallowe'en figures that are
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!
summer you can go out into the garden and gather hollyhocks. The flowers make real little flowIn
[io8]
Fairyland Castle
made from
round box and
its
cover.
Fairy House
made of
box covered
witli goodies.
A TOY CASTLE AND A FAIRYLAND HOUSE

er ladies
just like fairies dressed

to
up
in red,
and pink,
of the
just
and white dresses

hollyhocks
stick a pin
go
to a party.
The buds
down
make
the heads for the ladies, and

it
you
through these and press
at the base
of the full
blown flower
to
make
the fairy lady.
Acorns make fairy dishes too

to
did you ever happen
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
his steed
soldier, all in tinfoil
armor dressed;
chosen quest.
Bravely on
he bore him, valiant,
in his
At
his blow, the green tin
dragon toppled over, vanquished quite.
And
And
the rescued dolly princess
King and Queen, they
reign In
was set free, then, by her Knight. Playtown even to this very day,
they live forever happy, as the fairy stories say
[109]
BOXES USED AS BLOCKS

Material Required for Block Building: an
sortment of boxes varied in size and shape.
as-
Building with blocks
is
always fun,
as
you know.
with boxes
You have
in the
tried
it
with cubes, and with dominoes, and

try to build
with cards
but did you ever

to
same way?
be glued.
The boxes do not need may or may not be used.

and box covers form
building in the picture.
drug-store boxes.
in
Their covers
Small boxes make walls,
roofs.
You
It
will see a tall block
was made from small

no end
to the
There
is
really
ways
which you may build with
these.
From
heads.
boxes of uneven
size,
men and
animals
may
be made.
Round boxes or small oblong boxes form Larger boxes make bodies. Legs and arms
drawn with pencil upon
is
are boxes of equal size.
The
faces are
the back
of boxes
where there
no
print.
wire hair-pin
[no]

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
If
be made.
There
is
great variety, as forms vary

use.
with the shape and size of boxes that you
you are playing with some other

it is
child,
you will
find that
amusing
to
divide your store of boxes,
each choosing one

hausted.
at a
time
till
the supply
is
ex-
Then, you may each
see
how many
different
things you can build.
It will be a
game, and the
winner will be the one who can make the most with
his store.
It
is
entertaining to play with box animals and box
men when you have to spend a day in bed. They may be placed upon a table near the bedside. They
are light to handle, and they require no cutting or
pasting to muss you up.
If
you decide
to
have measles
or
mumps,
the
little
boxes
may
be disposed of easily
after
you have played with them.
find
new
ones to take their place
You can always when you are well
again.
You may make

box and
a
puzzle for yourself out of a large

of smaller boxes of varied size.
number
as
Try
to
pack
many
boxes
as
you can into the large
[III]

box.
ing.
Make them come
as
evenly
as
you can
in
pack-
There will be some space
at sides,
but with care
and thought you will be surprised

a space they
to see
how
small
may
be packed
into.
Try them
in various
forms,
to
till
you are sure you have reached the best way

Then, give the box puzzle
to
arrange them.
if
some
friend to see
he can do with one or Uvo attempts
what you have accomplished. When you give some person this puzzle, mix your boxes well so there is
no clue
box.
to their
proper arrangement inside the larger
Toys
like trains
may
be built with
a
little
more than
round box.
Its
a long cracker
box for
coach and some oblong box

is
for engine.
Its coal-car
The
is
engine's smoke-stack
cover taken from a candy box.
wheels are buttons or button molds placed on the

ends of wire hair-pins that have been pressed through
the sides of the cardboard boxes.
bit of
wax
or
plasticine will keep the wheels in place.
Paste boxes to the back of your cut-outs
buy
these sheets at the
penny
store.
when you The Indians,
cowboys, soldiers, and animals will then stand erect
by themselves.
You
will have an interesting time, I
am
sure, in
[112]
A Toy
Train that
is
built
from boxes.
Its
wheels are button molds.

finding
play.
new ways
It
is
to use
your boxes
in this
kind of
always new, for you
may
always find
different kinds of boxes to adapt to the building.
And
the nice thing about
it is
that
you can make almost
anything you choose.

knew before did you? How much a cardboard box could do! I can make buildings, now and then I make some animals and men!
I
never
Indeed,
it's
wonderful
to play
With
little
boxes in this way!
["3]
MAKING A NOAH'S ARK FOR CRACKER ANIMALS

a child's
Making a Noah's Ark:

ten
shoe-box without a cover, the cover of a large
shoe-box, and
some shallow box with cover about
inches by four.
Next time that you have cracker animals with, build them an ark! It is splendid fun.
tell
to
play
I will
you how
to
do
it.
Find the materials needed

box cover, the lower half of
the
to
build with
a shoeand
a child's shoe-box,
whole
of
some very shallow box about

Noah's
rims
is
ten inches
long and at least four inches wide.
To make
pointed.
the base of the
ark, use the large
shoe-box cover.
Cut
its
off.
Cut each end

this.
The
upon
door
ark building
is
placed on
The
Place
ark building
it
its
made from
its
the small shoe-box.

top.
rims so that
bottom becomes
Cut
in
one end of the box on the edge of the

[114]
A NOAH'S ARK FOR CRACKER ANIMALS

box rim.
To make
this,
cut
up from the edge
of the
rim two inches near the center of the box end.
Then
After
cut horizontally across the box two inches more.
(To cut door,

cutting,
see
Diagram Two, A, page

as if it
167.)
bend the door
were on
a hinge.
round-headed paper-fastener will make

and
latch.
door-knob
Press the points of the fastener through
the cardboard door and

to
bend the prongs, or

this
points,
one side together.
In
way, animals
may
be
securely locked into the ark.
Cut two triangular supports for the roof

ark.
of the
They should be cut in heavy cardboard and made equal-sided. The width of one end of your box will give you the dimensions to make these. (See Diagram Three, 55, page 169.) Paste one of these
cardboard pieces
to
each end of the ark building near
the top part of the box.
Let both dry well before
attempting to put a roof upon them.
The roof is made of box. Lap the long rim

of the other.
other.
the two parts of the shallow

of one part over the long rim
Glue the two rims

a gable
together, one over the
(For making
roof from two box
covers or from the halves of a shallow box, see Dia-
gram Three, 5, page
169.)
When the glue is
dry, slip
["S]

the roof over the gabled points of the ark building.
Now, when
there
is
the rains descend
and floods come and

just
RAINY DAY
Find
a doll for
ahead of you,
summon
the cracker animals

in'
from the pantry.
Arrange them
a piece of
pairs.
to
Mr. Noah and
paper
make
the dove.
footstool will be
all
Mount
out,
Ararat, and the ark
may voyage
floor.
the
whole day
comes
upon the play-room

you will have been
When
all
the sun
so
busy
day that you will have
quite forgotten about the rain.
Two
by two!
Two
by two!
Elephant and kangaroo!
Box and box
covers to-day
Make
a Noah's
later,
Ark
for play.
feast
Maybe,
you may
On an unpaired cracker beast! Two by two! Two by two!

Elephant and kangaroo!
[ii6]
A BOX SAVINGS-BANK FOR PENNIES

Make
a Savings-bank:
box
in
which correspondence cards have been packed,

box with
a sliding cover,
a small
to
it.
and another similar
When I began to make boxcraft toys, I used to save my pennies to buy pinwheel paper, cotton animals,
and
little
figures to use in Boxville.

I
Then, when
found that
should need crape paper or silver paper,

I
or a mirror for a pool,
had money
to
buy
it.
Perhaps you would
like to
know how
to
make
Savings-Dank for pennies too?
You
stores.
will need
some small box

cards
like that in
at
which
correspondence
It has a
come packed
stationery
double cover.
so that the printing
Turn
is
the
box over
on
its
top
hidden.
it
Make
over.
the top of your
box the bottom by
turning
Draw two windows and

box.
door on one side of the
Paint them,
if
you
like.
Paste over the door a porch roof
made from
half
[17]

of one small box.
The
floor of the
porch
is
pasted
under
it.
Remove the drawer from the little box with sliding The outside of the box, as you may have cover.
noticed,
is
like a tall
chimney.
it
Take
remove
lines
this
and stand
on end
at the top of
your box.
Draw its
outline with pencil on the cardboard.
Then
the
box and cut out the outline
just inside the
you made.
this is done,
When
you must glue the chimney over

it
the open hole.
Glue
tight
and
let it
dry well.
The
this
pennies, dimes, and nickels
may be dropped down
chimney
into the bank.

is
There
count
in
one rule which governs

cents
I
this savings ac-
my bank five
must always stay
in the
bank
to
be "a nest egg."

I
made
this rule myself.
made
a litde penny bank,
I'm saving pennies now!

It takes a lot of patience,
But I'm doing
it,
somehow!
My
bank has a
tall
chimney,
The And
pennies drop
down through:
It's really
fun to drop them
hear them jingle, too!
[1,8]
HOW TO MAKE A TOY WAGON AND

SLED OR SLEIGH
Make
Toy Wagon:
the
half of any oblong cardboard box.
few square
inches of cardboard will be required, from
which
to
cut cardboard disks for the wheels of the cart.
long cardboard box with
Make
its
a Sleigh: one ob-
cover.
sled
may
be
made from
If
the cover or lower half of any long box.
you wish
to
make
a toy
wagon, find the half of

this
if
some cardboard box.

cover.
Turn
upward
the
if
it is
the
is,
Keep
the lower half,
you use
is
that, as it
upright, open at the top.
This
body
of the
wagon.
Take your compass and with

board four
four
circles of the
it
draw on some cardThese are the
same
size.
wagon
wheels.
Cut each
out.
Find two small
sticks in the garden.
They must
[i'9J
THE JOIXY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT

each be a
trifle
longer than the width of your box.
Press each through the end of the box where wheels
should come
of your box.
stick,
press clear through both opposite rims

Then
press a
wheel upon each end of a

or some glue where the
and put a
bit of
wax
linchpin should come.
Let the glue dry thoroughly

toy.
before you attempt to play with your
strip of
cardboard cut
its
to fit the
width of the cart
and glued across

the driver's seat.
upper forward rims will make

strips of
The
shafts are
two
cardboard pasted
to
the forward sides of the cart.
Cut each about half the
length of your box.
Whoa
there!
Back up
back!
There
is
your toy
to tie his
horse in the shafts.

string harness.
trot
He
is
waiting for you
He
floor.
will be ready then to go on a
round the
If
a
you wish
to
it
make
over.
a sled, take the

Its
lower half of
box and turn
long side rims will become

off the box.
the runners of the sled.
Cut the end rims
Then, cut
off
each corner of the side rims of the box,
slanting your corner cuttings in the
same
direction.
There you have
the runners of your sled!

184.)
(See
Diagram Ten, A, page
[120]
Toy Wagon made from

half of a
half of an oblong box. the runners are
Sled cut from the lower

the
box
made from
box rims.
Sleigh
made from
the cover and the lower half of a box.

painted.
It
has been
Doll's Crib
made from
cut
the lower half of a box, with pill-box legs.

half of an oblong box.
The
Go-cart
is
from
The Basket
is
half a box.
The Express Wagon
Its handle and its is the cover of a candy box. wheels are cut from cardboard. The Little Doll may have a sled cut from a candy box.
A TOY WAGON AND SLED OR SLEIGH

To make
of your box.
the sleigh, you will need to use the cover
Turn
it
so that
it
opens at top.
Cut
the
side rims the shape of the
upper portion of
a sleigh,
and glue the cover
to the runners.
small box will
make two
part.
sleigh.
seats for the sleigh.
Fit the cover into the
back of the sleigh and the low.er half into the forward
(See
Diagram Ten, page

top.)
184,
for
making
A, runners; B,
it is
When
winter in Boxville, cotton-batting makes

horse, harnessed to the sleigh, with a
snow, and
my
sleigh-bell on his neck, goes jingling

Street.
through Main back
The boy
dolls catch their sleds to the
of the sleigh.
My Teddy Bear, he likes to play With little toys I make this way: The cover of a box may be A wagon like the one you see. Or, maybe, I may make a sled For little Teddy Bear, instead!
[I2ll
THE CHINA
DOLL'S CRIB, GO-CART,
AND MAY BASKET

the lower half of
Make
a China Doll's Crib:
some oblong box, and four small

to
oblong pill-boxes of equal size

the bed.
make
the legs of
Make
a Doll's Go-cart:
the lower half of an oblong box about seven inches

in
length,
and some cardboard

also
to
make
wheels.
Wheels may
be made from top and base of a
small round box three inches in diameter.
Make
a Doll's
May
may
Bashave;
ket: the cover or top of any small box you

also a small strip of
cardboard and two round-headed
paper-fasteners.
See, here
is
a china doll's crib in the picture.

It is
You
can see
tell
how
easy
to
make
it.
hardly need to
you.
Just take the cover or the lower half of the [122]

box you wish
rim
to use,
MAY BASKET
each long
its
and cut
off a part of
there
is
the top of the crib with
head and
foot.
To
each corner below
its
base glue the end of a

Isn't that
small oblong pill-box.
There!
an easy
and quick way

If
to
you wish
to
make make
a toy crib for a doll? a cradle, cut the
box
in the
as the
same way, and cut
a circle
once again
this circle
as
wide
width of your box.
Cut
into half,
and
each half will be a rocker for the cradle.

to
Glue one
That
is
all!
To make
a doll's go-cart like the
one in the picture,
take the cover or the lower half of any oblong box
similar to a candy box, one-pound size.
Cut
the rim
from
it
half-way around, beginning in the center of

side.
one long
Next, cut from the part that
is
with-
out rim the handle of the cart, as you see the box cut
in the picture.
Next, cut two circles from cardboard

wheels of the go-cart.
size.
to
make
the
Each
circle
must be
of equal
Make
each about three inches in diameter,

is
unless your
box
more than eight inches
long.
In
this case cut
your cardboard
circles to correspond,
larger.
[123]

Run
of the
a stick or a
long pencil through one circle, and
press the point of the stick through a lower corner
box through
to the
other side, where you put
on the other cardboard circle for the other wheel.
Your
stick or pencil
must be one inch longer than the

Place a blob of glue over each
let it
width of your box.

end of the axle and
on.
dry well,
to
keep the wheels

little
When
done.
you have
fitted the
end of a
to
box
into the
all is
lower half of the go-cart
make
a seat,
You may
if
use a piece of folded cardboard

I painted the
to
make
the seat,
you prefer.
it is
handle
this.
of
my
go-cart, but
is
not at
all
necessary to do
The
go-cart
great fun to use
when you play house

take your doll
tie
and go out marketing.
Then you can
baby with you baby
in the go-cart.
You
can
the doll
into the cart
with
a piece of string.
Is
The
to
basket that you see in the picture
very easy
different
construct.
You
long
can use
as
it
for
many
things,
and
as
you have small boxes
or even
You
large ones
will need
to
you may make baskets out of them.
some round-headed paper-fasteners or glue

paper-fasteners are stronger
help
make them. (The
and better than the glue.)
Take
the lower half of a box, or the
upper
half,
[124]

as
as
MAY BASKET
This
is
you
long
like,
and cut
a strip of
cardboard twice again

the basket's
as the
width of your box.

it
handle.
Glue
inside the inner rim on either side

still,
of the box, or, better
run the prongs of a paper-
fastener through the side of your
box and through
the end of the cardboard strip on both sides of the
box.
There
is
the handle
just see
what
cunning
basket you have made!
In spring.
May
baskets can be
made
this
way.
Filled with wild flowers, they are very cunning

the thing for a
If
just
May Day
gift.
you have some pretty
shells that
you have picked

box basket
will love
up
at the shore, they

to
may go
little
into a little
and be given
to
some
sick child,
who
handle them and keep them in their basket by his
bedside.
At
Easter,
fill
box baskets with moss or green
raffia
cut to represent grass.
Glue
the raffia to the box.
Then
ask cook
if
she will give you
some white beans

in a pot.
like those that are
baked with pork
Place
three or four of these in the moss or raffia cuttings,
and you will have made

to give as
a cute little basket of eggs
an Easter
is
gift.
When
your water-color
paint-brush
moistened with blue or brown paint,

make
like
tiny specks on the beans

little birds'
and they will look
wee
eggs.
The box
tions, too.
baskets
make good Christmas-tree decoraThey may be suspended from branches

raffia
by colored paper chains, or be tied on with

tinsel.
or
Each basket may be
filled
with candies or with
pretty berries you have found out-of-doors, holly or
bright wintergreen.
They may be used as place favors for party when filled with red paper hearts.
Little cardboard boxes
a Valentine
Are
useful every day.
They make 'most any kind of That you can use in play.
I
toy
made
a little go-cart,
A
And
I
basket,
and a bed,
there are
many
other toys
might have made, instead!
[126]
A TOY DOG KENNEL FOR A TOY DOG

Material Required to Construct a
small box without
its
Toy Kennel
cover, the cover of
some larger
box that
is
square, and cardboard.
Here is a picture of Fido, my little him a kennel so that he could stay near
at night
dog.
made
the doll house
and be a wâtch-dog. Perhaps your dog would

he
is
like one, if
a play dog.
to
If
you do want
make
one, I will tell
you how.
is
Take
the lower half of your box.
This
to
be the
building.
Turn
to it
it
over and stand
it
on end upon the

the shape of this
piece of cardboard you have.

end.
Draw
it.
Add
about four inches
in height.
Cut
to
this
piece out and cut another like
Glue one
is
each
end of your box.
Be
sure your box

rest
inverted before
you begin.
It
should
upon
its
rim.
Next, cut each end piece glued

at the top.
to the
box
to a
point
This makes the point of each gable side

roof.
under the
These are the points that come under

it.
the roof to support
[127]

Cut an opening under one
the box.
It
of these at one
end of
should be shaped like the door of a dog
kennel.
Where
roof.
is
a large flat
to
box cover?
It
is
to
be the
It
ought
be about four inches wider than

first
the width of your

roof, see
box.
(For making the kennel
Diagram Three, , page 171.) Fold this cover downward in equal halves
and place
it
to
make
little
a slanting roof,
over the points of the
dog kennel that come front and back of the

building.
to
There
is
the kennel all finished!
Whistle
Fidol
Come
to
here, Fido, to see the nice kennel

it
made
dog?
for you.
Don't you think that

a smaller
would be fun
little
some day
make
one for the
china
Oh
I
where, oh where has my little dog gone! Oh, he hasn't gone far, for you see built him a kennel from out of a box, And now he stays home here with me!
[1281
Toy Dog Kennel with cardboard end

box cover roof
pieces glued to
in place.
it
to hold a bent
HOW TO MAKE A TEDDY

WHEELBARROW
BEAR'S
Making a Toy Wheela
barrow: the lower half of
candy box or a similar
shaped box, one round pill-box for the barrow's

wheel.
The Teddy Bear's wheelbarrow that you see In the picture was made from half of a candy box; some strips of cardboard made the legs and wheel supports, and a round pill-box made the wheel. Do you wish to make a wheelbarrow to play with? Perhaps your Teddy would like one. I will tell you how to make it, shall I?
First, take the
lower half of your box and take one
end rim
off.
Then, from the upper part of the rim
next to this side, cut out the handles of the barrow.
Nextj cut out the cardboard half-way around the
lower part of the box between the handles.

the frame of the wheelbarrow.
This
is
Cut two short cardboard

[129]
strips
each a half-inch

wide and each three inches high. These are the rear
legs.
Glue them
this,
to the toy at either side at the back.
After
cut two strips of cardboard a half-inch
wide and
five inches long.
Glue
these to the
forward
part of the wheelbarrow's frame.
When
all
are well dry, press the point of a pin
through one of these wheel supports, through the

cover of a round pill-box, on through
its
other side,
through the other

if
strip of
cardboard
in front.
Then,
you
like,
you may put
a toothpick in place of the

at either end, after
pin,
with a small blob of glue
you
have cut the hub of the wheelbarrow

a correct size.
Let the glue dry well,
make it and then Teddy

off to
may have his toy to play with. 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

care.
A
It
wheelbarrow with greatest

is
a box, as
you can
see:
It made a 'barrow splendidly! Some artificial flowers made
A little
It
garden that
a very
we
laid
was
happy day
this
The
time
we made
garden play.
[130]
OFFICE FURNITURE FOR DOLLS

Make
the Office Furniture
the end of the lower half of a shoe-box

desk, a spool with a
stool, a
makes the
round box cover makes the desk
high round box four inches high makes a
flower-stand, the cover of a
box nine inches long
makes
a chair.
My dolls thought
I
had
a little
would be fun favor that was made

it
to
have an
office.
like a tiny typeas
writer,
and
a telephone that
came
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.
corner.
Cut
legs in
its
forward rim, leaving each
From
the side rims cut the two rear legs.
(To cut
page
table or flat office desk, see
Diagram
Six,
it
D,
178.)
Paint the desk with India ink and

[131]
will
THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCIIAFT

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.

it
Paint
it
to
match
the desk, and stand
on end. Over the

also.
top, glue a
round pill-box.
cunning
Paint this
It
makes a very
stool for a doll eight inches in height.

is
The
high.
stand
easy to make.
The
plant on
it
was
favor, too.
It
is
The
stand
is
just a
box about
five inches
put on end and painted.

all to cut.
The
chair takes no time at
Just find
the cover of a box about eight or nine inches long.
Cut the rim
off
from
it
half-way around, starting
at
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 (To cut of the cover as you cut legs for the desk. It is fun to a chair, see Diagram Six, C, page 177.)
the center of one long side.
have a
doll's office.
is
With
It
you can play

to
at business.
to
What
your business going
be?
Are you going
be a lawyer, or the principal of a
little doll's
school?
Maybe You
on, so
yours will be a real estate office for Boxvillel
can see
my
to
office
boy
In
the picture.
it
His
hat ought to be taken off his head, but
was glued
he had
be impolite
[132]
though
made him
Office Furniture for Dolls.
This is made fmni boxes, box covers, a spool and a wooden box.
The
Doll's
Couch Hammock.
It is
cut
from the cover of a hardware box.
OFFICE FURNITURE FOR DOLLS

say,
"Excuse me!" for doing

office boy,
it.
hope when you
engage an
hat
boy,
iiDill
you will get the kind whose

is
come off! and his name

I
But mine
is
really quite a nice
Bobbie. (He'd rather be called
Bob.)
wish that
his hat
would come
off!
I make believe, when I'm at play, There is an office far away, And Mister China Doll goes there
And
I
sits
and dictates
in his chair.
made
the office by the door.
It's right
upon
my
play-room
floor.
[133]
HOW TO MAKE A DOLLS' HAMMOCK

Material
Required to
Make
Dolls'
Couch
box that
Hammock:
is
the lower half of any oblong
One seven or eight inches long will make a hammock for a doll the same length. Larger boxes may also be used. Some string is needed to make
deep.
ropes.
The
dolls'
couch
hammock
as
in the picture
is
easily
made. Your large dolls
well as the very small ones

tell
may have hammocks.

one?
Shall I
you how
to
make
Take
the lower half
that
it
is
usually the deeper

it
half of a
box
and
turn
so that
opens
at top.
From
the front rim, cut out a long lengthwise section
of the rim.
At each end of the box, run a string through a corner. Knot the two end strings that come on the ends of the box. Knot them together or tie them, so that
the
to
hammock may
it.
be suspended wherever you wish
place
[134]
HOW TO MAKE
You may make
tissue-paper over
of your box.
A DOLLS'
HAMMOCK
by folding
the shape
fit
a mattress for the couch
brown paper
still,
cut to
Better
you may make

cloth.
a real little
mattress from
some canvas or
Cut
the cloth
a little larger than twice the size of

it
your box.
with
Fold
bits of
and sew
it.
Then
stuff the mattress
paper torn
be
to shreds.
Pillows for the
hammock may
made in the same way, using smaller dimensions. You can hang the hammock under the railing on the porch, or fasten it to the rungs of a chair when
you play Indoors with
be delighted
to
it.
am
sure your dolls will
have you make
this for
them.
If
you
are a boy, you can
make one
to use
for your sister.
Boys
ought
to
know how
needle and thread as well
as girls.
Soldiers and sailors
know how
boy ought
is
to sew.
(I
know
that
is
man who
can do embroidery, but, of course,

far.)
going pretty
A
It
to
be able
to
sew
a mattress,
anyhow.
as easy as
making
marble-bag.
made
It's
a dollie's
hammock,
an easy thing to do: can make one, too
Just find an oblong cardboard box
And you
[135]
HOW TO MAKE A THEATER OR PUNCH

SHOW
Make
a Theater or
Punch
cover,
Show:
a deep, square letter-paper
box and
its
and some postal cards with colored views.
Would you like to make Show to play with? Shall
a toy theater or
I tell
Punch you how to make
one out of some deep, square box about eight inches

square and eight inches high?
First, take the
cover off your box and lay

it
it
aside.
its
Next, turn your box over so that

four rims and the bottom of the box
rests
upon
is
made
the top.
top, out-
Upon
line an
the
upper part of the box, near the

with your
ruler.
oblong about two inches from each corner of
the box.
Measure
it
Its
top should
be two inches from the top rim of the box.
The
whole should be about

inches
tall.
five
inches wide and three

in
(To guide you
drawing
this,
refer to
Diagram Nine, A^ page 183.) Cut this oblong you have drawn
[136]
at
both sides and
A DOLLS' THEATER OR PUNCH

along
its
SHOW
top line.
Bend
the cardboard inward to-
ward
the center of the box.
This will make the
"stage."
(See Diagram Nine, A, page 183.)
Just over the stage, in the upper rim of the box,

cut a two-inch wide opening the same length as you cut for the length of the stage below.
entirely, so that the little dolls
Cut
this
out
you intend
to use for
actors
may
be dropped on black strings through the

to
opening and made

(See
walk and dance on

183.)
the stage.
Diagram Nine, 5, page
Behind the opening over the

rim of the box long enough
postal card.
it,
stage, cut a slit in the
to slip
through a fancy
Slip
some pretty colored view through

stage.
and there will be the scenery for your

(See
You
may have
page 183.)
pictures of interiors as well as views, of
out-of-doors and houses.
Diagram Nine, C,
Now,
board.
cut a piece of cardboard the right size for a

its
sign for your theater, and print
name on
you
the cardsee
it
Glue
the sign over the stage as

It will serve to
in
the picture.
hide the
little
dolls'
entrance to the stage on their strings.
Last of
all,
place the cover of your letter-paper

its
box, face down, on
rim on the table or

[137]
floor,
and

put the theater or Punch
that there
front.
is
Show
well back upon
it
so
place for an audience of
little dolls in
(See
Diagram Nine, D, page

little
183.) dolls
Benches for the audience of
may
long,
be cut
from covers of boxes two and three inches

cutting benches, see
(For
Diagram
Six,
A^ page
175.)
Your wooden
I
actors
may
be penny
dolls, or
any jointed
dolls such as
you will find
in toy row-boats
at the ten-cent store.
used
to collect
fancy postal card views of
all
kinds of interesting places and give lectures on them

at
my theater.
There
is
It
was most fun of

to the
all, I
think.
had
performing Noah's Ark animals

too.
in vaudeville there,
no end
games you can play with
the theater.
I If
made
a lovely theater for

like, I'll tell
little dolls to-day.
you would
you how.
You. make
it
in this
way:
Right on the bottom of a box
a pasteboard box,
that's
you know
You draw
a square
with space each side;
where the stage

each side.
should go.
Now cut
Upon
Some
the square right at the top, and cut

it
it
down
the base, you bend
in.
It
!
cannot be denied
This makes a "really truly" stage
pretty colored postal cards of houses, and

in,
For scenery you use some views.

top.
To
And
put these
you cut a
slit
upon the box's
through a wider one,
in front, the dolls
on threads you drop.
[138]
The Punch and Judy

paper box and
the actor
is
or Little Dolls' Theater

its
is
made from
a deep letter-
cover.
The scenery
is
a fancy postal card
and
a doll.
The Merry-go-Round
a cardboard
is
roll
made from the covers of two round bandboxes, and penny cut-outs purchased at the children's
"penny store."
A DOLLS' THEATER OR PUNCH

This must be
just above the stage,
SHOW
see,
and wide and long, you

easily.
The actor You move
dolls, held in the
wings, can enter
the thread and
walk them round.
Mine
act all kinds
of things:
The fairy stories that I know; my sailor doll, here, And you can use the theater for fun in lots of ways
Give
lectures
sings.
on the postal views as well as acting plays.
[139]
HOW TO MAKE A TOY MERRY-GO-ROUND

Make
Toy Merry-gopenny cut-out
round: two round bandbox covers, or the two halves

of
some large round box,
a sheet of
pictures of horses or animals, and a cardboard mail-
ing-tube or a hoop-stick.
Everyone may own
a merry-go-round.
It
is
made
from two large round bandbox covers and

tube.
a mailing-
You
will also need
some pictures
of animals
five
or horses to use on the merry-go-round.
Four or
animals are enough

less.
to use.
A small
box will require
Cut-out pictures of Indians or cowboys

used on the merry-go-round.
these, horses cut
may
be
If
you cannot have
from cardboard will answer.
To
do
this, find a
clear outline of a horse in

it
some maga-
zine picture and trace
upon your cardboard. Then,

by drawing around
when it is you make

edge.
cut out, you will have a pattern to help

the other horses
its
[140]
HOW
out.
TO MAKE A TOY MERRY-GO-ROUND

as race-horses.
In the picture, the horses were each a penny cut-
They came
They
exactly fitted
the
bandbox merry-go-round
thin cardboard before
that I
made.
If
your cut-outs are upon thin paper, paste them
upon
you
start the
work
of
making
making
the toy
itself.
Let them dry while you are
the merry-go-round.
this, first
To
construct
take the cardboard mailingit
tube that you have (or the hoop-stick), and run
down through
Cut
the center of one

its
bandbox cover
as the
bandbox cover stands on

box cover, and press you
rims like a platform.
a small hole in the center of

this
your other bandthe cardboard

its
mailing-tube, a third of
as
down over the way down
length, just
see
it
in the picture.
Now,
take your animals

out.
mounted on
thin card-
board and cut each
Cut narrow half-inch

poles of the animals.
strips of
cardboard for the

at
Glue them
equal intervals
inside.
around the rim of the upper bandbox cover,
To
their bases, glue the animals.
When
Paper
you turn the top of the mailing-tube, the

twirl.
merry-go-round will
figures cut
from colored magazine pictures

[141]

may
ride on the merry-go-round.
When
it is
made
and
the
to
in a smaller size, china dolls
wooden Noah's Ark animals cardboard strips to make very

With
I cut just
may ride on may be glued
it,
lifelike chargers.
two bandbox
covers,
I built a carousel;
some picture horses out
For chargers they did well!

I
gave some paper dolls a ride

I
tell
you,
it
is
fun!
make
believe a pleasure park
Is right here in the
sun!
[142]
MAKING A BOXCRAFT AUTOMOBILE

Material Required to Build a
a
Box Automobile:
a
one-pound candy box with cover,
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 card-
board key-tag for steering gear, two metal buttons for

lamps.
It
is
not difficult to
make
box automobile, for

do
it.
nobody needs knowledge

scissors,
of mechanics to
Paste,
boxes
and
a pair of
hands
to
do the work,
these are all that
you will need. box forms the
The lower
body
half of the large oblong
of the car.
Take
the cover of the

if
box
off.
This
put
will be used later for the hood,
you care
to
one on.
Cut
off
each long inner side rim of

at
the
box
except for a corner
each end.
[143]
Leave the inner rim

of both ends
the
seat.
on the box untouched.

in front
This forms
windguard
and the back of the rear
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
to the
the lower half of the
box
in half also.
These
halves are wheel-guards for front wheels. Paste them
forward part of the automobile.

circles
Cut four
compass
from your cardboard.
Use your
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.

If
This secures
the wheels.
to.
you prefer, you may glue the wheels
the guards.
tires.
They should be
[i44l
painted with spokes
and
Boxcraft Automobile with hood made of a box cover.
Boxcraft Automobile made without hood.
MAKING A BOXCRAFT AUTOMOBILE
narrow box rim

to
is
glued between the wheel-
guards
make
to
the running-board.
to the front of the
Two
metal buttons are fastened
automobile
form the lamps.

is
A
itself
toothpick
pressed into the front of the box to
make
the rod of the wheel for steering.

is
The wheel
upon
the
round cardboard key-tag
fitted
other end of the toothpick.
The
of
front seat of the automobile

that
is
is
the end corner
some small box

of the car
fitted
crosswise into the
body
is
and glued
in place.
The
rear seat
an end of a small box
fitted in the
same manner
into the
body
of the car behind.

are.
Boxcraft automobiles are the best there
They
do not cost you a single penny!

very easy to make,
If
too.
Repairs are always
you care
to
add
hood
to the
automobile,
it
may
be made from the cover of your large box.
Cut the
front rim of the box cover down, and slant the long
sides of the cover dow^n to the
uncut end.
Paste an upright piece of cardboard about four

inches high behind your rear seat.
the higher end of the
To
be
its
top, glue
box cover.
Two
small strips of cardboard

[I4S]
may
fitted
under

the
hood above the front
seat to hold the
hood up
in
front.
I
painted the automobile that you see in the picture

ink.
with India
made
out of a
You could scarcely tell box when it was finished.
that
it
was
Three cardboard boxes little Have made a car for me:

It
is
else
a boxcraft model,
And it's jolly as can be! The little Boxville people

Can go
touring
in
this car;
The)' have splendid
picnic
parties
Where
the groves of clothes-pins are!
[146]
HOW TO FURNISH A
Material
DOLL-HOUSE
Furniture for a
all
Required to
Make
Doll-house: cardboard boxes of
kinds, especial-
ly flat letter-paper boxes, jeweler's boxes, correspond-
ence-card boxes.
in
Pencils and spools

of the furniture.
at the pictures of
may
be of help
making some
When
you look
my
all
boxcraft doll-
house, you will see
how
well
it
was furnished.
All
the chairs and tables, and the bed

are in the pictures
the things that
are
cut
from cardboard boxes.
You have just such boxes as I used, I am sure. Every home has them. Shall I tell you how the furniture is made? First, I will tell you how I made the bedroom, shall I? The old-fashioned canopy bedstead is made from a candy box and its cover. The four posts are long pencils. One pencil is run through each corner of the lower half of the box and glued tight. Then the
cover
is
placed upon the upper ends of the pencils
to
make
a canopy.
Lace-paper
[147]
is
pasted around the

rims of the cover.
a lace-paper pillow.
I I
made tissue-paper sheets and You can do that, too.
made a tall bureau from eight empty matchboxes. The match-boxes were safety-match boxes with tiny drawers that are made to slide in and
out.
I
saved
till
had eight boxes.

these
Then,
I I
glued
glued
four, one on top of the other,

in the
and four others
same way.
When
legs,
were
dry, I pasted
my
a
two
sets together.
This made the upper part of the

I cut a
bureau.
To make
Diagram
low bench from

its
small box cover and pasted the boxes to
top.
(For
bench, see
Six, yf
page 175.)
sewed shoe-
buttons to each drawer to

is
make
it
a handle.
The mirror
at the
a piece of
cardboard cut oblong and pasted

so that
is
back of the bureau

a
upright.
I painted
to
frame around the
sides of the
cardboard
is
make
it
look like a mirror.

lace-paper.
a
The bureau cover
a strip of
The
candle and candlestick came off
birthday cake.
The wash-stand
about
a bench, only that
is
is
cut from the lower half of a box

It
is
five inches long.

its
cut almost as
if it
were
legs are shorter.
The
"splasher"
a piece of
cardboard pasted upright
at the
back of
the box.
[148]
Boxcraft Bedroom furniture.
Boxcraft Table and Chairs.
Mantel and
Settle
made from cardboard
boxes.
Piano and Grandfather's Clock made from boxes.
HOW
Almost
TO FURNISH A DOLL-HOUSE
all
chairs
made were
Each
cut
from narrow
box covers and jewelers' hat-pin boxes.
One
hat-pin
one.
box will make two

(For
chair, see
chairs.
half
makes
Diagram
Six, C,
page 177.)
chairs.
Hat-pin
boxes will
covers
make high-backed
other kinds.
Other box
make
When you
cut an ordinary
chair with a low back, begin to cut the rim from the
side of
your box near the center on one long
side.
When
rim
you make
a chair
from
a hat-pin box, cut the
off
your box two thirds of the way around,
leaving one end only with the rim on.
The
part
without rim
is
Press that up-
ward, and cut the legs of the chair from the end that
has a rim left
I
upon
it.
made
a grandfather's clock
I
by standing
spend
a hat-pin
box on end.
of a
glued
to its
upper front part the face

to
penny watch. You do not need
penny.
it
Just
mark
the face of a clock in pencil and glue
to
the front of your clock.
Really, I
am
very proud of the piano.
It
is
not
every doll-house that can have a piano
but you can

as fountain
make
one, for
it
is
easy.
You
will need a shallow
letter-paper box and a
narrow box such
pens come in from the store where they are bought.

[149]

Paste one long side of the narrow box across the front
or back of the letter-paper box after you have stood
the letter-paper
box upright. The narrow box should

Six, F,
be placed about where you think the keyboard belongs.
(See
Diagram
page
179, for
making a
a bit of
piano from two boxes.)
The
music-rest
is
folded box rim glued to the central part of the piano
above the keyboard. The keyboard
marked ofif with ink upon a strip of white paper and pasted upon the top of the narrow box. You can easily draw the first
is
part of some music that you know, and place

tiny sheet of white
it
on a
paper
to
make
a "piece" for the
piano's music-rest.
mantel for the living-room
may
be
made from
Cut from
a flat letter-paper box.
Stand the box upon one long
rim and place
its
printed side to the back.
the front a mantel opening like the opening for a
Diagram Six, G, page 180.) The Morris chair is made like any other chair. (See Diagram Six, C, page 177, for cutting a chair from a box.) It has two bent box rims glued to each side to make the arm rests, and the cardboard is cut
fireplace.
(See
rounding from the front rim of the box

legs.
in cutting
its
[150]
HOW TO
I
FURNISH A DOLL-HOUSE
little
made
very cute
It
cupboard for
easily
my
doll-
house dining-room.
was
made.
is
You
can
make one out

row margin
of any shallow
all
box that
like a spool
box, by cutting out
of
its
front rim excepting a narits
left all the
way around
front cover. I
cut some strips of cardboard and fitted

inside of this
them
across the
shelves.
box and glued them
to
make
Lace-paper made the shelf-paper.

bottles
Metal corks from

silver-
and cold-cream tubes made mugs and
ware.
Plates for the dining-room were circles cut
from cardboard.
sideboard
may be made from

this in half
If
half of a letter-
paper box, cutting
lengthwise.
Then
the
cut this half the box as
you were making a high

in the at
bench.
legs.
Do
not cut far
up
box rim
front.
to
make
Cut them curving

It
the
Outline a
drawer and cupboard doors upon the

a plate-rack at back.
is
front,
and paste
the cover of a
narrow box
glued behind the
buffet.
Of
best.
all
my
doll-house furniture, I like the kitchen

If I
It looks so homelike.
I
were
a little doll,
know
should love to go Into that kitchen and

stove.
Is
make
candy on the
The
stove
would be such fun! made from an oblong candy box cut

It
[151]

like a bench.
At two
knobs.
sides of
its
front, I cut
oven
doors and put round-headed paper-fasteners through
them
to
make
The prongs
of each paper-
fastener, bent,
make
latch for oven doors.
At
the
back of each oven door, right inside the box,

a small
I pasted
box and made a

it!
real little oven.
could put
dishes in
The
on
it.
boiler in the kitchen
is
the kind of round tin

in.
they use to pack blue-print paper

a spool after I
I stood
ofif
mine
from
you
washed the printed paper
You You
can use an old baking-powder
tin,
if
have no blue-print paper box.

can see
how
the kitchen sink

a
is
made
merely
At
box cover placed over the end of
deeper box.
the back of the
box paste an upright piece of card-
board.
a
The
faucets are
made from
the two ends of
kid
hair-curler
^
pressed
through the cardboard
downward.
The
long
kitchen table
It
is
is
the lower half of a correspond-
ence-card box.
legs.
cut as
if it
were
see
bench with
Six,
(For cutting the bench,
Diagram
in
A, page 175.)
You
will have a very

if
good time playing
your
doll-house,
you make one.
You
can make a four-
[52]
Boxcraft Doll-house Furniture.
The Dining-room.
Boxcraft Kitchen Furniture for
dolls.
Stove, table, and sink are
all
boxes.
The
boiler
is
a tin
box upon
a spool.
HOW
their sides.
TO FURNISH A DOLL-HOUSE
Put two upon the
floor
roomed house from four large bandboxes placed on

and glue the
other two
to their tops.
Of
course,
you will not need

will
to use the covers of the boxes.
Each bandbox
make a room. You can use strips of wall-paper for carpets and rugs. You can cut windows in the bandboxes. When
you have furnished the doll-house,
like a real little
I
it
will be quite
home.
furniture with ink.
If
painted
my
you paint
yours, be careful to put newspapers
down under your

your brush
as
work, and be very, very careful

dry
as
to use
you
can.
In
this
way your work

it.
will be evenly
colored.
Let the furniture dry thoroughly before

to
you attempt
paint
it
play with
If
you
like,
you may
with water-color paints.

Little boxes
I
make such fun!

dollies' bed,
can use each tiny one!
have made a
And
Oh, Oh,
a mantel, painted
red! too!
Bureaus, chairs,
I
a table,
have some work to do!

think that
it
is
gay,
Making
furniture this
way!
[53]
HOW TO MAKE THE BOXCRAFT

"RINGFLING"
GAME,
the deep
Make
"Ringfling"
lower half of
box over seven inches square, four
long pencils, and about twelve square inches of cardboard.
Ringfling
is
a jolly
it.
game.
am
sure you will

as
enjoy playing
As many children
can play
first
happily together
of the
may
play the game.
The
rule
"The more, the merrier!" It takes but a moment to collect materials with which to play the game. The game itself may be
game
is,
made in about ten minutes Take the deep lower half

and draw from corner
figure in
to
or
of
less.
some large square box

its
corner across
top.
(See
this
Diagram Eleven, A^ page

lines.
185.)
Do
with heavy pencil
Number
each section of the board but one, using

i, 2,
thenumerals,
section blank.
3 (one
numeral each).
Leave one
[>S4]
The Boxcraft Game
of "Ringfling."'
It
is
made with
the help of pencils
and cardboard cut from box covers.
THE BOXCRAFT GAME, "RINGFLING"

Cut
a ring
from cardboard, using

it first.
compass or
it
saucer to guide you in drawing

three inches in diameter.
Make
about
(See
Diagram Eleven, D,
a smaller ring just
page
185, for cutting ring.)
Make
it
like this larger one,
and cut
in the
very same way.
Take your pencils.

section
Press the point of one into each

at
its
of
the
game-board
center near the
numeral you have drawn.

pencils
Press the points of the

to
down
first,
and be careful
keep each hole
small, so that the pencil will not slip too far

in
it.
down
The
tops of all pencils should be of an even
height, as you see
them
in the picture.
Here
are the rules of the
game:
Players play in turn. Players count out

to see
who
will begin the
game and who

Each play
will follow.
consists of a turn to
throw the large
ring and the small ring.
The
object of play
is
to
have the ring tossed
fall so that it circles
about a pencil.
it
When
The
a ring circles a pencil,
gives the player

that section.
the count of the
number
that
is
upon
small circle doubles the count.

Twelve counts win
obtain this wins.
to
the game.
The
it
first
to
You may make

rounds.
eighteen
make a longer game. The game is played in

it
is
To
avoid
dis-
pute,
best to keep the score of all players
with pencil and paper.
Each player must stand

the
five ruler lengths
from
game when he
When
I
flings the circles.
am
I
playing
little
games,
I like to
do what's right;
do not win the game,
And when
1 try to
be polite!
['56]
THE GAME OF "SHOOT THE CHUTES"

Make
its
the
Game
of "Shoot
the Chutes": a long box and
cover, and one high
box without a cover

This
little
some
spools.
game may be played by two players. It is an easy game to make, as you can see by looking at the picture. It is made of two parts of
boxcraft
one long box, with the lower half of another that

higher.
It
is
is
played with spools.

first
To make
long box
as
the game,
cut the lower half of your
you
its
it.
see
it
cut in the picture.
Make two
openings in
roll
rim, each
wide enough
to let a spool
through
Stand
it
this
part of the box upon the
floor as
you
see
placed
in the picture.
Now, you
cover's rim
are ready to
make
at
the chutes.
at
Cut
the
the rim of the long box

part of the long
each corner,
and press the cardboard out

Rest
this
each end.
in a slanting position
box
against your high box.
[57]

Paint four spools.
Make two
to
red and two blue.
Two
box.
of the
same color belong

is
each player.
The game
the chutes,
it
to try to get
your two spools into the
Every time you get
a spool in
by rolling
it
down
counts you one count.
Players play in turn, one spool at a time.
The
game
is
played in rounds.
The
first
player to reach
the score of seven wins.
made
this little
game
myself,
All on a rainy day!

It
made some
jolly fun for
me.
And
passed the time away.
[1^8]
THE BOXCRAFT GAME,

CATCH-YOU"
"ONE-TWO-I-
Make "One-Two-I-Catchis
You"
a square
light.
box cover and two buttons, one dark

counter
a
and one
The
round pill-box.
(A
square pill-box will do as well.)
This boxcraft game of "One-Two-I-Catch-You"

is
like a
board.
game of tag. As it is not so
It
is
a tag
game on
gameit
noisy a game, you can play
in the house.
To make
your
ruler.
the board to play on, take your pencil and
Rule a
line
from corner
to
corner across
a line that
the inside of the
box cover.
Then, rule
will cross the center of the box, and another that

crosses the center
from the other
side.
This makes
Paint the
the
triangular
divisions of the board.
triangles, alternating, black or blue.
Leave the ones

186.)
between, white.
(See
Diagram Twelve, page
Find your buttons now.
Two
players are to play
[159]

this
game.
its
You
will need a pill-box for a counter.

tight,
Glue
cover on
and put
its
number one on
to see
its
top and a
number two on
and
base.
Play
in turn,
toss the
counter
how
far
you
can move.
that
is
When
the counter falls, take the
number
on
its
top and
move
as
many
triangles in either
direction as the counter indicates.
Each player
begin the game.
takes a different colored button to
Each button
is
placed in an opposite
try to catch
corner of the board.
Each player must

is
the other player by getting onto his triangle.

to
The
first
catch the other player three times
winner.
Throw
the counter,
Happily,
Who
is
winner.
Let us see!
Button here
And
button there,
I will catch
you!
Just take care!
[i6o]
'Funny Mr. Box," a Boxcraft Game, played with spools.
'One-Two-I-Catch-You," a Boxcraft Game of Tag.
THE FUNNY GAME OF "MISTER BOX"

:
Make
the
Funny Game
of
"Mister Box" one large box with a cover

lar to a shoe-box
one simi-
two or three
is
spools.
Allow me
Box.
to
introduce to you
jolly.
He
in.
is
funny and he
if
my friend Mister He likes to catch

as to
spools in his mouth,
you will be so kind
throw
them
him.
Mister Box
is
I will tell
You can make a game like you how. You will need an empty
game.
It
box about the

cover.
size of a shoe-box.
should have a
Two
or three players
may
to
play the game.
Each
will need an
empty spool
blue; one
play the game with.
Each player may color
his spool a different color.
One may be
if
there are three
may be players, may be

tight.
red; and the third,

green.
Now,
to
make Mister Box.

[i6i]
Place your box on
end and glue the cover
Next, take your pencil

and draw a big face on the back of the box.
the
Make
mouth
large and round.

to
Cut out
the cardboard
inside the
mouth
you
make
a big
round hole about four
inches wide.
crayons,
if
You
like.
can color Mister Box with your
His hair should be brown, and
his eyes too.
Now,
to
play the game, every player must stand,
in turn, in the
same place on the carpet or
floor rug,
four feet from the box.

to get this.
Measure four
player
ruler lengths
Each must
try to get his spool into
Mister
Box.
till all
Toss the spool.
No
may
touch his spool
have finished playing the round.
The
first
one
to get his spool into
Mister Box six times wins.

win a game
I
When
This
is
at play,
what
always say:
'You
If I
will
win another day!"
do not win to-day,

is
This
what
hope
I'll
say:
"I have had a splendid play!"
[162]
HOW TO MAKE A MAGIC BOX

Make
a Magic Box: two
small oblong boxes with covers that slide over an

inner drawer.
a half long.
Both boxes must be about an inch and
Both must be duplicates of each

of light twine are needed.
other.
About two yards
The magic box is truly a wonderful one. It will obey every command you give it yes, it will! There is a secret that you will have to learn, but when you know this secret the little box will have to do just as
you bid
it.
The magic box is on a string. As it descends, you cry, "Halt!" The box stops at once. "Go on!" you cry. The box continues down the string. "Faster, faster!" The box fairly flies in its haste to get down
to the floor!
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
to
Now,
let
me
tell
you how
do
it.
(It
is
a trick,
of course!)
Find a small
of a toothpick.
stick,
round and smooth like a half
[163]

Take
fit
the sliding cover
from one
of your boxes,
it,
and
inside the drawer, across the center of
the piece
it.
of
wood
so that there
is
space under
at
it
and above
Next, make a small hole

of your box,
each end of the drawer
and thread some string through both under the

stick of
holes, letting the string pass in the drawer. (See
wood
187.)
Diagram Thirteen, A, page
Place the sliding cover on the box and

pass through
it
let the string
at
both ends. (See Diagram Thirteen,
B.)
The SECRET of your magic box is wood in the drawer. Tell nobody about
you hold one end of the string
end and keep the string
slightly,
the piece of
this.
When
in
your right hand,
place the toe of your shoe on the floor over the other
taut.
Then, loosen your hold
and carefully bring the box upon the string

your hand.
to
up
as far as
When
it less
you loosen the hold upon the string you will notice that the box
make
tight,
slides rapidly
down
tising,
the string;
when you hold

in
the string absolutely
taut, the
box remains firmly

just
one place.
By
prac-
you will find
how much
to
to loosen
your
hold on the string in order

wish.
make
the
box do
a^
you
[164]
HOW
TO MAKE A iMAGIC BOX

sees the
Anyone who
box performing
so
wondermagic.
first,
fully will not readily guess the secret of
its
Here
comes
it
the second box, that

into the play.
is
a duplicate of the
this
Arrange
second box as
if
were
the trick
box
except
for the stick through

to
the drawer.
When
your friends ask

one.
examine the
magic box, give them the second

your pocket.
pocket, slide
its
Keep both
you can
in
In putting the trick box into your
drawer
a little, so that
easily
distinguish between the two boxes
by feeling
of them.
When
that
you give the duplicate, nobody will suspect

not the real box,
if
it is
you manage
say.
cleverly.
"Wonderful!
Wonderful!" they
you have!"
"What
MAGIC BOX
I
made a magic trick box! Oh, you may make one, But do not tell the secret That I am telling you
little
too,
The
It
is
box will mind you,
Do
everything you say!

a magic trick box
treasury of play.
[i6s]
THE JOLLY BOOK
BOXCRAFT
lED
WINDOWS
Diagram One.
box
as the
Cut
the cardboard sides of your
heavy black
limes indicate.
Fold outward
upon
A.
the dotted lines.
plain
window without
with blinds.
blinds or awning.
Cut
B.
the cardboard out on all four sides.
Window
Cut
the top line, the
center line, and the base.

lines.
Fold outward on the dotted
C.
Window with
awning. Cut side lines and base.

to
Bend cardboard outward and upward

awning over the window.
make
the
[1 66]
DIAGRAM
D
DOORS
Diagram Two.
sides as the
Cut
the cardboard of your
box
heavy black
lines indicate.
lines.
Fold outward
where there are dotted

A.
Single door.
at the base also).
Cut
at top
and side
(if
need be,
to
Fold the cardboard outward
make
B.
its
a door.
Double door.
Fold both
Cut
the square at top
and down
center.
(If need be, cut the base of the square

sections outward.
in
it.
also.)
C.
Door with window

Cut
it
Cut out
a square
from the single door.

Fold
outward.
the door at top
and
side.
[167]
SIDE WALLS.
SLOPING ROOF. PLACE FOR OR TOWER
CHIMNEY
Diagram Three.
This shows the shape of the

to
cardboard pieces that are used
form
side walls
for a sloping roof; also the box cover roof placed in

position,
and the hole for
chimney.
to
A. Side walls of cardboard, glued
box ends.
Square cut
be inserted
AA. Box
through
its
cover placed on side walls.
out so that a box tower or chimney
may
opening.
[168]
DIAGRAM
GABLE ROOF.
TRIANGULAR SUPPORTS TO HOLD

Triangular cardboard
IT
Diagram Three.
roof
pieces
are cut and pasted to the upper part of a box to hold a
made from two interlapped box covers. B. Gable roof made from two box covers. BB. Triangular cardboard pieces cut to
fit
the
ends of a box and hold a gable roof.
[169]
A SINGLE GABLE
ROOF.
BOX CUT GABLE ROOF
DOWN
TO HOLD
Diagram Three.
lengthwise, to
Gable
roof.
This
is
a piece of
its
cardboard cut oblong and folded through
center,
make
to
a slanting roof.
this roof
deep box
a
may
be cut
down
hold
and make
gabled
building.
C.
Cut where heavy black
lines indicate.
Roof cut from
a piece of plain
cardboard or
corrugated cardboard.
CC. Box cut down
to
make
the
low
sides
and
high-pointed gable ends of a small building.
[170]
DIAGRAM
ROUND-POINTED ROOF, TENT ROOF, INDIAN WIGWAM, AND CARDBOARD TENTS FOR CAMP
Diagram Three.
D.
edges X
to x.
is
Roofs.
Round-pointed roof cut from cardboard. Lap

This makes a tent
this
also.
The Indian
its
wigwam
center,
it
made
is
way.
E. This
wide box cover folded through

to the top
rim cut up
on each long
side.
is
Bent,
makes
a tent or tent-shaped roof.
This
like the
kennel roof.
[17']
^
RAMPARTS FOR A CASTLE OR
FORT.
A SMALL ROOF TO
PLACE OVER A PORCH
Diagram Three. Cut where

indicate.
the heavy black lines
F. Ramparts are cut from the rim of a box cover.
G.
porch roof
may
be
made by
it
taking the
cover of any shallow box and pasting
over the door-
way
of your building.
The porch
pillars are long
pencils run through holes cut in each forward corner
of the box cover.
[172]
DIAGRAM
BRIDGE
AND
R.R.
TUNNEL
Diagram Four.
By
cutting the ends or sides of
boxes, tunnels or bridges
may
be made.
Cut where
the heavy black line indicates.
A.
The bridge
is
made by
cutting a semicircle
from the long

cover, turned
sides of an inverted box.
upward, forms the bridge
The box railing. At

is
each end, cut the corners.

to
A cardboard strip
pasted
each end rim

B.
to
complete the bridge roadway.

is
The
tunnel
made by
cutting a circular open-
ing in the two ends of a deep box which has been

inverted.
[173]
rTTU
PATTERN FOR WINDMILL SAILS
Diagram
Fold
to
it
Five.
its
Take
a square piece of paper.
through
center once.
Fold the two halves
make
quarters.
Draw
the outline
Z on
the piece
is
of paper folded into quarters, and cut this as
in-
dicated by the heavy black line.

pattern for the windmill
in cardboard.
sails,
This gives ZZ^ the

are cut
which
from
it
[174]
DIAGRAM
BENCH FORM AND BED

Diagram
A.
left of
Six.
Cut your box when

lines
is
it is
inverted
where the heavy black
show.
cutting to right and
bench form
made by
each corner of the lower half of an inverted
box.
Remove cardboard evenly from between these cuttings to make legs of the bench. AA. This is the cover of a box from which long
It
is
side rims are cut.
glued
to the
bench form
to
make head and
foot of a bed.
[>75]
DIAGRAM
Diagram
its
Six, C.
To make
the chair, turn the

it
lower half or cover of your box so that

rims.
stands
upon
Cut where
the heavy black lines are
shown
in the diagram.
Fold the back of the chair upward

is
where
the dotted line
indicated.
[^77]
TABLES
Diagram
legs in the
Six.
Tables are made from deep boxes
by inverting the lower half of the box and cutting

rim
as
is
shown by
the heavy black lines.
Small boxes, square or round, placed upon upright

spools will
form
tables, stools, stands.
D.
table cut
from
correspondence-card box.
Cut where
diagram.
the heavy black lines are
shown
and
in the
DD.
glued
round table made with
a spool
box
to its top.
[178]
DIAGRAM
SCHOOL DESK AND PIANO
Diagram
E.
Six.
Cut where the heavy black

at y.
is
lines
are indicated.
Glue
school desk
made by
standing the lower

of
its
half of a small oblong box
upon one
see a
long rims.
line
Cut
in the
box rim where you
heavy black
is
in the
diagram.
piece of box rim
fitted
below
the top of the desk inside the box to
make
to
a shelf.
F.
Glue
narrow box across

its
a larger
box that
is
placed upon one of
long sides at yy
make
a piano
with keyboard.
[179]
FIREPLACE
AND MANTEL
Diagram
Six, G.
Stand any box you

its
may have
Cut
as
upright on one end or on one of
long rims.
from the front or back
of the
box an opening
shown by
the heavy black line in the diagram.
[.80]
DIAGRAM
PERGOLA
Diagram Seven.
inverted shoe-box.
The pergola The lower half

Cut
is
made from an
box
is
of the
used.
Cut
the bottom
from
the box, leaving a the ends as

lines.
narrow rim
in the
around the bottom.
shown
diagram by the heavy black
Mark
off pillars
upon
gram.
the long sides of
your box with pencil, and cut
these as
shown by
the heavy black lines of the diastrips are
Two
cardboard
glued lengthwise
left.
at
the top over the lengthwise edges
Strips of card-
board are crossed over the open top which was the
bottom of the box.
181I
ZOO OR CIRCUS CAGE
Diagram Eight. Cut
the cardboard box sides as
indicated by the heavy black line in the diagram.
Zoo
cages are cut on each side.
Circus cages are cut top

is
and bottom of the box, and the box
then placed
to
it.
upon one long rim
to
have wheels added
The
wheels for circus cages are cardboard
disks.
[182]
DIAGRAM
DOLLS'
THEATER OR PUNCH SHOW
Diagram Nine.
cover.
The
theater
is
made from
its
deep
its
square box placed to stand upon
rims,
upon
The opening
is
cut
upon one
side of the
box
and bent inward where the dotted line is shown. This B is the stage opening through which the is the stage.
dolls are let
down by black cord

Cut an opening
line.
to
walk upon
the
stage
and
act.
like this
shown
in the
slit
diagram by the heavy black

back of the stage opening.
scenery
is let
shows the
Through
this,
postal-card
down upon
the stage.
[183]
SLEIGH AND SLED
Diagram Ten. A. A sled is made by

rims.
cutting the cover or lower
half of a box that has been placed to stand
upon
its
Rims
are cut
ofif
at
each end of the box or

the runners.
cover.
The
long rims
make
Cut the
rims where you see heavy black lines in the diagram.
B.
sleigh top
is
added
to a sled
by cutting the
cover of a box
sleigh.
to the
shape of the upper part of a
The lower
half of the
same box makes runto
ners for the sleigh.
Glue the cover
these.
In
cutting your box follow the heavy lines indicated in
diagram.
[184]
THE GAME-BOARD AND RINGS FOR A BOXCRAFT GAME

Diagram Eleven. A. This is the way
corner of the box upon
''RINGFLING/'
to
draw
the sections for the
game-board of "Ringfling."
its
top.
Draw from corner to Number one section

i
Number
B.
another
2.
Number
another
3.
Leave one
the one
is
section blank.
Cut two
rings
from cardboard
like
shown.
diagram.
Cut where
the heavy black line
in the
Make
one ring smaller than the other.

[185]
N.
DIAGRAM
THE MAGIC BOX

Diagram
sliding cover
Thirteen. This shows a small box with
which draws over an inner drawer.
A
B
is
is
the drawer.
At
its
center, crosswise, there
is
piece of stick fitted into the box.

at either
is
Holes are pierced
end of the drawer.
the
box ready for
its
magic
play.
Its
drawer
is
replaced within the sliding cover.
The box
strung upon a yard or so of string.

[187]
Here's our
last
page!
We
say good-bye-
But we
To
some other day build within this Magic Land

will meet
And
be good comrades in our play.
THE END
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THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT

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THIS BOOK DEDICATED TO

ALL LITTLE CHILDREN

"NIMBLEFINGERS," "HAPPY THOUGHT"

edge her indebtedness

have lent their toys and helped

thanks are due to Elizabeth Hendricks,

Hoyt, and Wesley

The The The The The

Boxville Railway Station

and Shoe-box Tunnel

Hotel Bandbox and How to Furnish The Shoe-box Apartment House

Boxville Residence Boxville Garage or Stable

Making a Boxville Garden

The Houseboat "Box Craft"

Gipsy Cart of Boxville Highway

Hut and the

Box Brothers' Animal Show

Tent and Circus Grounds

BoxTOWN Zoo Garden BoxTOWN Hose House

Build A Toy Castle AND A Fairyland House

Boxes Used as Blocks

Office Furniture for Little Dolls

How How How

Making A BoxcRAFT Automobile

volume and of the

necessity for grouping

necessary for an occasional illustration

chapter, or at the end

of the preceding chapter.

Toy Town Made with Shoe Boxes

BoxviLLE Cottage {Outside View) {Inside View)

District School {Outside View) School {Inside View)

Boxville Church {Outside View) Boxville

Sled Crib, Go-Cart, Doll's Sled

The Game. "Mr. Box"The Game, "One-Two-ICatch-You"

How How How How How

Make Make Make Make Make Make Make

a School Desk and a Piano 179

Make a Magic Box

the hotel and the store,

Take cardboard boxes with you

maybe, some and take your turning's here We'll

about this village, dear

THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT

paste, scissors, crayons or water-color

paints; perhaps a ruler, and pencil will help.

them, and they are quite

She could make a coach and pair

but a pumpkin and some mice,

but the fairies that I

know can do even

They can make

whole toy shop

but some cardboard boxes.

Nimblefingers, and Play.

Happy Thought, They have so much magic

that they can transform even dull days

All three of them came

one very rainy day, and each of them

board box while they

in chorus about the