The playwork book . Fig. cork must be cut almost round forthe head. For the base the stork stands onone of the large corks out of pickle jarsdoes best, but if you cannot get one takeseveral pieces of thick cardboard and pastethem together, or take the lid of a small STORKS 51 cardboard box and make holes for the endsof the legs in it, and after pushing the endsof the hairpins through, run them intosmall pieces of cork, so that they will keepin place when standing. Now get a burntmatch and sharpen it at either end, andpush one end of it into the head, and theother into the body, and se
The playwork book . Fig. cork must be cut almost round forthe head. For the base the stork stands onone of the large corks out of pickle jarsdoes best, but if you cannot get one takeseveral pieces of thick cardboard and pastethem together, or take the lid of a small STORKS 51 cardboard box and make holes for the endsof the legs in it, and after pushing the endsof the hairpins through, run them intosmall pieces of cork, so that they will keepin place when standing. Now get a burntmatch and sharpen it at either end, andpush one end of it into the head, and theother into the body, and set the legs intoplace in the body also. Use hairpins thathave no waves or angles in them, so thatthe bend of the pin makes the right bendfor the leg. Make the beak of two match-es, trimmed to a sharp point, and you canuse a tiny black bead for the eyes, or drawthem with ink. The feathers for the crestand wings and tail must be stuck into holes,after having a little mucilage put on theend of the 52 THE PLAYWORK BOOK A RABBIT Materials Required:— Large cork, tiny piece of brown paper, a fragf-ment of cotton wool, needle, strong thread, pen-knife,scissors. This also is of cork, shaped out to rathera point at the head and cut flat underneath. Cut little nicks on each side to define the feet. The ears are of brown paper cut like Figure 30, Figs. 29 and 30. with corners folded over and glued or put on with a stitch of strong linen thread. A small dot of ink or a small bead makes the eye. A CORK DOLL Materials Required:— Flat cork, two bottle corks, burnt matches, a tinypiece of thin cotton material, the same of white paperand of colored ribbon, a largs pin, a little black orbrown wool, needle, mucilage. The body is a nice smooth cork and thepinafore is a piece of white paper tied onwith the piece of ribbon The arms andlegs are matches sharpened and well pres-sed in; it is best to have their points glued. A CORK DOLL S3 31 The head is a small cork covered with apiece of whi
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