What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . cardboard —there is a great deal to do. Both walls and roof can bepainted, and tiles, bricks, and creepers imitated. The frontdoor should have a knocker and a letter-box, and around boththe door and the windows should be imitation the upright joints of the four walls will be made of linenpainted to imitate brick-work or stone-work, you need notcarry the painting of the walls quite to the edges, becausethese will be covered by the joints. It is best to paint thejoints before you stick them on. Before turning the card ov^er ag
What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . cardboard —there is a great deal to do. Both walls and roof can bepainted, and tiles, bricks, and creepers imitated. The frontdoor should have a knocker and a letter-box, and around boththe door and the windows should be imitation the upright joints of the four walls will be made of linenpainted to imitate brick-work or stone-work, you need notcarry the painting of the walls quite to the edges, becausethese will be covered by the joints. It is best to paint thejoints before you stick them on. Before turning the card ov^er again, run your knife alongthe four sides of the floor to assist the bending up of the not on any account cut through ; merely make a half cut. When you have drawn and painted all you can think ofto make the house complete and pretty, take your strips oflinen, for the fastening of the walls, crease them in half,lengthwise, and glue one half to the outside of the edge of thewalls marked CB and DE in the plan. When this is quite DOLLS HOUSES 239. Fi^o(?6 I. Caedboaed Dolls House 240 WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW 9 dry, bend the back wall and the two side walls up, and gluethe free sides of the strips to the wall marked AB and EF,holding the walls firmly together until well stuck. Strengthenthe fold LM, which has to serve as a hinge for the front ofthe house, with a strip of linen glued underneath. Thesides of the front wall must remain unattached, as that formsthe opening. It can be kept closed by a strong pin slippedthrouojh the roof.
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