The playwork book . ldervarieties. The box portion is made withcasings run into the cotton material atequal intervals so as to form a three-sidedbox. Fix in your three spars, all equal insize, and along each side fix a plane, orwing, of thin cotton material; it can be ofanother color and looks very gay if this isdone. Make a little bag or pocket at theouter corner of each wing, and into thisinsert the ends of the fourth spar, so thatthe latter may be slipped out and the kitefolded up. The string should be attachednear the nose of the kite. It needs notail. A MONKEY ON A STICK Materials Require
The playwork book . ldervarieties. The box portion is made withcasings run into the cotton material atequal intervals so as to form a three-sidedbox. Fix in your three spars, all equal insize, and along each side fix a plane, orwing, of thin cotton material; it can be ofanother color and looks very gay if this isdone. Make a little bag or pocket at theouter corner of each wing, and into thisinsert the ends of the fourth spar, so thatthe latter may be slipped out and the kitefolded up. The string should be attachednear the nose of the kite. It needs notail. A MONKEY ON A STICK Materials Required :— Some thin three-ply vrood, two long knitting-pinstwo small reels, a piece of hat wire, some smallstaples, pliers, an aw^l^ a fret saw, w^ater color paint&and brushes, mending w^ool. Draw your monkey carefully on thethree-ply wood, the body and limbs all sep~ 132 THE PLAYWORK BOOK arate, and a thin stump on to which the tailmust be fastened. With the awl pierce tinyholes through arms, body, and legs, where. Fig. are attached, and insert a piece ofwire, and with the pliers turn a small closeknot in it on each side to prevent it comingout. Small wire paper clips will do insteadif they can be got. Now saw off the rimsof your two reels—they must be the same A MONKEY ON A STICK 133 size—and into one of your reels fasten twostaples over the pin and into the reel, sothat they hold the pin very tightly, catch-ing the pin just at one end. With anotherstaple through each hand fasten the armsof your monkey to this reel, and slip theother reel round the same knitting-pin andextend your monkey to its fullest length,and now fix the other knitting-pin to thesecond reel so that its point projects a lit-tle way through the first reel. Keepingthe monkey stretched to its fullest lengthfasten his feet with staples to the secondreel, and be sure that the limbs work quiteloosely in these staples. Now with mend-ing yarn make a tassel and fasten it to theend of your hat wire, and wr
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