The playwork book . Required:— A small strip of thick cardboard, a small piece ofstring, nv^ool^ scissors. This is the easiest of all the things onecan make in wool. Take a narrow piece ofstiff cardboard, or a flat stick about fiveinches long and about one inch wide, andmake a slit at each end: between these twoslits stretch a piece of thin string and then,about the middle of the strip of cardboard,wind the wool over and over till it is like aball. Do not allow the wool to spread toofar along the cardboard. When the ball ofwool is two, or two and a half inches indiameter, loosen the string fro
The playwork book . Required:— A small strip of thick cardboard, a small piece ofstring, nv^ool^ scissors. This is the easiest of all the things onecan make in wool. Take a narrow piece ofstiff cardboard, or a flat stick about fiveinches long and about one inch wide, andmake a slit at each end: between these twoslits stretch a piece of thin string and then,about the middle of the strip of cardboard,wind the wool over and over till it is like aball. Do not allow the wool to spread toofar along the cardboard. When the ball ofwool is two, or two and a half inches indiameter, loosen the string from the slits,and slip out the cardboard carefully fromthe ball; you will not have a bundle ofwool with a string running through all theloops. Tie the string up tightly and knot 25 26 THE PLAYWORK BOOK it well, then take your scissors and cut theloops as in Figure 2. After all the loopsare cut you will have to clip all the looseends, till they are about even in length, andthe bundle will now be a nice regular Figs. 1 and 2. This is a somewhat wasteful way of mak-ing a ball, and should only be used by verylittle children with waste wool or cotton3^arn. It teaches them, however, a veryuseful thing—to wind wool evenly, and tocut and trim it. ANOTHER WOOLLEN BALL 27 ANOTHER WOOLLEN BALL Materials Required:— Two used post-cards or pieces of thin cardboard,a strong darning needle, odd pieces of bright-coloredwools, scissors. A very much better way to make a wool-len ball, but more difficult, is shown in Fig-ures 3 and 4. Here you must first have apiece of fairly stiff cardboard and on it lay
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