The playwork book . Materials Required:— A narrow^ strip of soft wood, a cork, four luggagelabels or post cards, a penholder, strong glue, apenknife, an upholsterers nail, a gimlet. This is made of two pieces of woodsocketed as in Figure S3, and with slitsmade in each end into which a luggagelabel is inserted. Use glue to hold thesefirm, and also to stick on to the center ofthe cross of wood a slice of cork, pierce ahole through the cork and the cross ofwood, and through it run a nail with a fair- 72 THE PLAYWORK BOOK ly large head. Now make a hole at eachouter left-hand corner of each label a
The playwork book . Materials Required:— A narrow^ strip of soft wood, a cork, four luggagelabels or post cards, a penholder, strong glue, apenknife, an upholsterers nail, a gimlet. This is made of two pieces of woodsocketed as in Figure S3, and with slitsmade in each end into which a luggagelabel is inserted. Use glue to hold thesefirm, and also to stick on to the center ofthe cross of wood a slice of cork, pierce ahole through the cork and the cross ofwood, and through it run a nail with a fair- 72 THE PLAYWORK BOOK ly large head. Now make a hole at eachouter left-hand corner of each label and. Fia. 65. loop through this with a needle and a firmthread. Tie the thread round the nail andrun the nail into your stick. AN AIR PROPELLER Materials Required:— A piece of soft w^ood three-quarters of an inchthick and about six or seven inches longf^ a gimlet,a soft wood skewer, penknife, sandpaper. This is a little air propeller which israpidly whirled between both hands andreleased: if properly done it should returnto the hands. The propeller is cut out ofwood on the same principle as in Figure52, but it may be of thicker wood with agreater amount of angle to the blades. The AN AIR PROPELLER 73 stick must be carefully fitted to the hole inthe blades and must be thicker at the other 0 Fig. 66. end. Both blades and stick should be wellsmoothed with sandpaper. A REVERSING PROPELLER Materials Required:— Two pieces of wood as above, also two largerround sticks, such as are used to roll paper upon,a cork, two long nails, a piece or thin tin or card-board for the tail. This windmill is
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