. What shall we do now? A book of suggestions for children's games and employments;. box can be cut in the fiat, out of one pieceof cardboard, and the sides afterwards bent up and the liddown. Measurements must of course be exact. The prettiestway to join the sides is to use sarsenet instead of paper, and thelid may be made to fasten by a little bow of the same material. Paper boxes, when finished, can be made more attractive by Scraps andpainting on them, gumming scraps to them, putting transfers here there, or covering them with spatter-work (see p. 223).Scraps can be bought at
. What shall we do now? A book of suggestions for children's games and employments;. box can be cut in the fiat, out of one pieceof cardboard, and the sides afterwards bent up and the liddown. Measurements must of course be exact. The prettiestway to join the sides is to use sarsenet instead of paper, and thelid may be made to fasten by a little bow of the same material. Paper boxes, when finished, can be made more attractive by Scraps andpainting on them, gumming scraps to them, putting transfers here there, or covering them with spatter-work (see p. 223).Scraps can be bought at most stationers in a very great , which are taken off by moistening in water, pressingon the paper with the slithery clouded surface downwards, and 236 What Shall We Do Now? being gently slipped along, used to be more common than theynow are. Directions how to make many other paper things will befound on pp. 198-217. A dancing The accompanying picture will show how a dancing man is man. made to dance. You hold him between the finger and thumb, Handdra& A dancing man (back view). one on each side of his waist, and pull the string. The hingesfor the arms and legs, which are made of cardboard, can be madeof bent pins or little pieces of string knotted on each side. All the apparatus needed for a Hand Dragon consists of alittle cardboard thimble or finger-stall, on which the features of adragon have been drawn in pen and ink or colour. This is thenslipped over the top of the middle finger, so that the handbecomes its body and the other fingers and thumb its legs. What Shall We Do Now? 237 With the exercise of very little ingenuity in the movement of thefingers, the dragon can be made to seem very much alive. Theaccompanying picture should explain everything.
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