When mother lets us make paper box furniture

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Use three pieces of cardboard cut from bottoms or covers of boxes.

1. Hinge the pieces together at their edges with thread, wire or ribbon.

2. Cut out the slats at the top.

3. Cut out the three large holes and gather in silk or muslin; or paste pretty paper or figured cloth flat on the cardboard; or paint flowers or landscape right on the cardboard.

4. Paint the “wooden” parts gold or white.

THE PARLOR SCREEN.

If the screen in your parlor you use, You might burnish it all with gold; Then colored silk so pretty and bright, On each of the sides you might fold. But if in the bedroom it finds a place, White enamel is better to use; Then for each side, instead of the silk, Some dainty white muslin I’d choose.

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

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