The playwork book . water color paint, scissors,strong needle. This is a very jolly little fellow, and he ismade of old kid gloves. His head and bodyare stuffed with tissue paper. The head isjust wrapped with a square piece cut fromthe wrist of the glove neatly gathered in ateach side and tightly tied. The loose endsmust then have each one corner trimmedoff in a sloping line towards the neck; thisforms his flappy pointed ears. Now gettwo tiny rounds of gummed stamp-paperand ink on each an eyeball, only partiallycovering the paper, and gum these on forthe eyes, and with pen or paintbrush putin
The playwork book . water color paint, scissors,strong needle. This is a very jolly little fellow, and he ismade of old kid gloves. His head and bodyare stuffed with tissue paper. The head isjust wrapped with a square piece cut fromthe wrist of the glove neatly gathered in ateach side and tightly tied. The loose endsmust then have each one corner trimmedoff in a sloping line towards the neck; thisforms his flappy pointed ears. Now gettwo tiny rounds of gummed stamp-paperand ink on each an eyeball, only partiallycovering the paper, and gum these on forthe eyes, and with pen or paintbrush putin his mouth and nose. You can give hima very woeful expression if you make hismouth turn down. Cover his body with theback of the gloves, so that the threepoints or rows of stitching make a trim-ming for his jacket. The legs and armsare made of slips of the kid stitched care- A BROWNIE 123 fully over the flat wire used by ends of the strips are left free and cutto a pointed flap to form feet and Fig. limbs and head very firmly intoplace and bend at elbows and knees. This 124 THE PLAYWORK BOOK Brownie can be made to sit down and takemany different positions; he is a very life-like little doll. You can also make him awee nightcap out of a knitted glove andput a feather in it, and dress him with alittle cloak. KITES Materials Required :— Thin straight sticks of canes, strong paper or thincotton material^ strong thin string, strong paste, large-eyed needle. These are several of the commoner andeasier kites to make. They are usuallymade of paper pasted over the frame, butit is in all cases better if children will Lakethe trouble to make their kites of thin cot-ton material and tack or baste it into placewith large neat stitches; this really takesvery little more time than pasting. Theframes in every case should be of the light-est and straightest sticks possible to can sometimes get very good oneswhich are used in strengthening cardboardboxes
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