The playwork book . NE AND TENDER Materials Required:— One large bottle cork and several small ones, onematchbox, large strong pins, preferably laundrypins. Use a large cork for the engine and aportion of a small cork for the funnel. Thedome can be made of the remaining piece Fig. the latter and must be rounded at oneend. Pin both onto the boiler wheels are slices of cork set into placewith pins. The tender is a matchbox withthe sides cut down at one place to make theentrance, and another matchbox makes thewindscreen. To make the wheels of thetender hold steady, cut long slic
The playwork book . NE AND TENDER Materials Required:— One large bottle cork and several small ones, onematchbox, large strong pins, preferably laundrypins. Use a large cork for the engine and aportion of a small cork for the funnel. Thedome can be made of the remaining piece Fig. the latter and must be rounded at oneend. Pin both onto the boiler wheels are slices of cork set into placewith pins. The tender is a matchbox withthe sides cut down at one place to make theentrance, and another matchbox makes thewindscreen. To make the wheels of thetender hold steady, cut long slices of corkthe width of the matchbox, and run thepins into these after piercing* the sides of 56 THE PLAYWORK BOOK the box, as seen in the top view of the en-gine. A CHEST OF DRAWERS Materials Required:— A number of empty matchboxes, a number of shoebuttons, colored or brown paper, mucilage. This is a very neat chest of draw^ers, orw^riting-desk, made of matchboxes; it alsomakes very good furniture for a toy gro-. FiG. shop. Have all your matchboxes ofone size and color, and fix them all togetherin their outer cases w^ith mucilage. Nextget a piece of pretty colored paper (piecesof flow^ered w^all-paper look very nice, orblue paper of a sugar bag), and glue thisround the ends and top of your chest ofdrawers. Now in the end of each box cut A CHEST OF DRAWERS 57 a small hole and push through it the shankof a shoe button, and peg this through witha tiny slip of wood or a roll of paper, sothat it holds quite firm. Glue on to thebottom of your chest of drawers some but-tons without shanks, or wooden buttonmoulds, to form the feet. A CRADLE Materials Required:— An empty matchbox, a cork^ needle and threadyscissors, mucilage, penknife. Use an empty matchbox, and on thebottom glue two halves of a slice of corkfor rockers. For the hood take the outercase of the matchbox and unfasten itwhere it is joined, and cut off a lengthwisestrip about three-quarters of an inch wide,usin
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