When mother lets us make paper box furniture

BOOK SHELVES.

Reading edition

Use a shallow box with a cover which entirely overlaps it, like an ordinary candy box or a note paper box. For a very small bookcase, use a box such as druggists use for powders.

1. Study the picture carefully. Notice how one end of the cover is cut off and then fastened on the top to form the little railing.

2. All the shelves are made from the box. If the case is tall enough for three shelves, use both ends and a piece of the middle.

3. If the case is not tall enough, then make two shelves, using only the ends.

When fitting the shelves, push the box in as far as it will go; then mark where it is to be cut off.

4. For books, use the corrugated cardboard in which bottles are packed. Cut strips of this, making some parts high and some parts low, to look like a row of books. By painting them different colors, and making little marks to suggest the titles, they can be made to look very much like books.

The strips must be cut long enough to be bent back and fastened to the sides.

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 Book Case.

Candy box or note paper box

Cover—cut small piece from bottom

Fasten on top—clip corners

Fit box for shelf

Mark—cut on dots

Fit other end of box

Mark—cut on dots

Fit middle of box

Mark—cut on dots

Fasten shelves

Shape bottom

DOLLY’S CORRESPONDENCE

Cut tooth picks up for pencils, And fold small papers, too; Tuck these inside the little desk, As grown up people do. Fit a piece of mother’s blotter On the shelf on which you write; Lay on this your doll’s note paper, Choosing dainty blue or white.

Writing Desk.