The playwork book . er edge. Now make a clean cut withthe scissors from the edge to the innercircle along each line. The tin will alwaysbend in one way as you do this, and youmust leave the little divisions bent veryevenly. Make a hole in the center of yourwheel and fix it strongly with a nail into astick. You will find you can hardly holdyour windmill if you stand with it facinga steady wind. This windmill is a grandone to go. A WOODEN MILL Materials Required:— Two narrow strips of thin, soft wood, a stick fora holder, a screw^, penknife, gimlet. This is a wooden mill and it requires A WOODEN
The playwork book . er edge. Now make a clean cut withthe scissors from the edge to the innercircle along each line. The tin will alwaysbend in one way as you do this, and youmust leave the little divisions bent veryevenly. Make a hole in the center of yourwheel and fix it strongly with a nail into astick. You will find you can hardly holdyour windmill if you stand with it facinga steady wind. This windmill is a grandone to go. A WOODEN MILL Materials Required:— Two narrow strips of thin, soft wood, a stick fora holder, a screw^, penknife, gimlet. This is a wooden mill and it requires A WOODEN MILL 69 some care and skill to make it. It can eas-ily be made with a penknife out of twopieces of thin, soft wood. First you mustcut a neat socket across each piece of woodin the center, halfway through its thick-ness. The socket must be exactly the samewidth as your piece of wood, so that whenyou set each piece socket to socket theyfit exactly. Now with an awl or prickermake a neat hole in the center of the two. FjGs. 52 AND 53. pieces when they are fitted together. Nextyou must shave away with your penknifethe right-hand edge of each of the armsor sails of your windmill, graduating theshaving evenly from the left-hand edge,where it is thick, to a fine blade at theright-hand edge. Now fit together the twohalves and put a nail through the hole andfasten it into the end of a stick. If the nail 70 THE PLAYWORK BOOK is apt to split the stick you can put a reelon to the end of it and fix the nail into thestick through the hole of the reel. It is avery good thing to put your nail through alarge glass bead between the windmill andthe stick. A FEATHER WHEEL Materials Required:— Four large quills, a piece of firm cardboard, a cork,a box for a gas mantle, a straight stick or old pen-holder, paper, mucilage, needle and strong thread. This windmill is made of goose quills, orany other large strong quill; these must bechosen with the wider webbing of thefeather all on the same side,
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