What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . course be prettiest way to join the sides is to use thin silk insteadof paper, and the lid may be made to fasten by a little bowof the same material. Scraps and Transfers Paper boxes, when finished, can be made more attractiveby painting on them, gluing scraps to them, putting trans-fers here and there, or covering them with spatter-work(see p. 275). Scraps can be bought at most stationers in avery great variety. Transfers, which are taken off bymoistening in water, pressing on the paper with the slitheryclouded surface downwar
What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . course be prettiest way to join the sides is to use thin silk insteadof paper, and the lid may be made to fasten by a little bowof the same material. Scraps and Transfers Paper boxes, when finished, can be made more attractiveby painting on them, gluing scraps to them, putting trans-fers here and there, or covering them with spatter-work(see p. 275). Scraps can be bought at most stationers in avery great variety. Transfers, which are taken off bymoistening in water, pressing on the paper with the slitheryclouded surface downward, and being gently slipped along,used to be more common than they now are. Directions how to make many other paper things will befound on pp. 243-262. Ink Sea-SerpentsDissolve a teaspoonful of salt in a glass of water, dip apen in ink and touch the point to the water. The ink de-scends in strange serpent-like coils. INDOOR OCCUPATIONS 289 A Dancing ManThe accompanying picture will show how a dancingman is made to dance. You hold him between the finger. A Dancing Man and thumb, one on each side of his waist, and pull the hinges for the arms and legs, which are made of card-board, can be made of bent pins or little pieces of stringknotted on each side. Velvet AnimalsThe fashioning of people and animals from scraps ofvelvet glued on cardboard was a pleasant occupation whichinterested our great-grandfathers and great-grandmotherswhen they were children many years ago. A favorite picturewas of a boy and a St. Bernard, in which the boys head,hands, collar, and pantaloons, and the dog, were made of whitevelvet painted, The boys tqnic was black velvet, and its belt a 290 WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW ? strip of red paper. The dogs eye was a black pin-head. Thewhole was mounted on a wooden stand with wooden supportsat the back, one running up to the boys head and the otherto the tip of the dogs tail. With some scraps of white andblack velvet, and a little patience and ingenuity, one
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