The playwork book . keel, and fastenit in with a tiny tack or a pin. Gum onsmall paper flags to the masts. This makesquite a good little sailing ship and it is notdifficult to make. 118 THE PLAYWORK BOOK A PROPELLER Materials Required :— A slip of thin wood, a small strip of tin, stronground elastic, strong tin cutters, a penknife oi* fretsaw, an awl. This is a little propeller which with cer-tain alterations can be fixed to any boat. Take a piece of tin, as in Figure A, andpierce it with two holes and file them quitesmooth, and slightly bendeither end left and rightfrom the holes. Now takea p
The playwork book . keel, and fastenit in with a tiny tack or a pin. Gum onsmall paper flags to the masts. This makesquite a good little sailing ship and it is notdifficult to make. 118 THE PLAYWORK BOOK A PROPELLER Materials Required :— A slip of thin wood, a small strip of tin, stronground elastic, strong tin cutters, a penknife oi* fretsaw, an awl. This is a little propeller which with cer-tain alterations can be fixed to any boat. Take a piece of tin, as in Figure A, andpierce it with two holes and file them quitesmooth, and slightly bendeither end left and rightfrom the holes. Now takea piece of thin wood cut asin the diagram, with a longwide slot, so that it asort of fork, and withscrews or tacks hammerthis on to the stern of yourvessel at the two holes, sothat it projects with the whole fork clear of the vessel. Now threadstrong elastic through the holes in the tinblades of the propeller with the ends knot-ted firmly, making a double loop, each endlooping over the respective forks. Twist. Fig. 96. A DOLL 119 this tightly round on the same principle asin the making of the wishbone clapper, andwhen the twist is released it will propelyour boat a considerable distance eitherbackwards or forwards according to thedirection the thread is twisted. A DOLL Materials Required :— An old knitted stocking or pair of cotton gloves,two shoe-buttons, strong thread, some brow^n or blackmending yarn^ tissue paper, wadding, scissors, darning-needle. This doll is made of old stockings or oldknitted or woven gloves. If only blackstockings can be got it can be a nigger doll,or it can have its face alone made of light-colored glove. The stuffing must be oftissue paper roughly shaped to the rightsize and wrapped round with some yarn tokeep it shapely, or this may be again wrap-ped round with a layer of cotton the arms and legs separately, andfasten over the knitted covering very neat-ly with big, but firm, stitches. Stitch aline right through at the wrists a
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