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When mother lets us make paper box furniture

BED.

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Use a shallow box and its cover.

For a large bed use a stocking box.

For a smaller bed use a spool or caramel box.

For a very small bed use a jewelry box.

1. Cut the cover into two parts, making one part longer than the other. The longer part is the headboard, the shorter part is the footboard.

2. Fit the headboard and footboard on the ends of the box and hold them with both hands. Slide the box up or down until it looks like a bed.

3. Lay the footboard down, but hold the headboard and box together, until you fasten them.

4. Fit the footboard on again to match the headboard, and fasten it.

5. Cut the bottom of headboard and footboard to look like legs. Also cut the slats in the headboard and the footboard.

6. Paint brown or white.

Illustration from When mother lets us make paper box furniture: A book which shows children just how to make most attractive toy furniture out of materials which cost practically nothing--toys which give as much pleasure as those from expensive toy shops

Details of Bed.

Large bed—stocking box

Small bed—spool box

Foot board

Head board

Cover—cut on dots

Head board—Foot board

Box

Body of bed

Fastened

Legs and slats cut

COSY DIVAN.

To make this divan comfortable, What would you next suggest? You might make sofa pillows, So dolly may lie down and rest.

Illustration from When mother lets us make paper box furniture: A book which shows children just how to make most attractive toy furniture out of materials which cost practically nothing--toys which give as much pleasure as those from expensive toy shops

Divan.

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