r is pasted on this to make it look like glass.
With these few patterns you can make any number of useful articles to
furnish Miss Dolly's house. You can make small beds and large beds,
small tables and large tables, and many sizes of chairs.
You can make
=The Chair=
by merely looking at Fig. 22 and the diagrams, Figs. 23 and 24. No pins
were used in this, but if you want the chair to last it is best to
fasten it securely like the rest of the furniture. The straws for the
back should be six inches long and for the front legs two and a quarter
inches long. The shelf under the chair is the size of the seat.
[Illustration: FIG. 22--The high-backed chair.]
This furniture will be especially useful in playing with paper dolls,
and by using different colors, in colored papers, you can have a blue
room, a pink room, and a green room.
[Illustration: FIG. 23--Push the straw through the back of the chair.]
You can make tissue-paper sheets and spread for the bed and
pillow-slips, too, if you like. Thus dolly can be tucked away snugly for
the night.
The ingenuity exercised in the construction of these simple articles
will encourage the development of deftness and skill in the little
fingers, which are ever ready to imitate anything that teacher can make.
[Illustration: FIG. 24--Cut the back and seat like these.]
CHAPTER IV
A NEWSPAPER BOAT WHICH WILL SAIL ON REAL WATER
[Illustration: FIG. 25--The newspaper boat made water-proof and sailing
on real water.]
YOU can fold a thirteen-and-a-half-inch square of newspaper into a fine
boat measuring thirteen inches from stem to stern. It will be a good,
stanch craft like Fig. 25, to float and sail out in the open on pond,
lake, or river, or at home in basin or bath tub.
[Illustration: FIG. 26--Square of newspaper for making boat.]
[Illustration: FIG. 27--Paper folded at centre.]
[Illustration: FIG. 28--Paper with sides bent down, making four layers.]
[Illustration: FIG. 29--Paper ready to turn back lower corners.]
[Illustration: FIG. 30--Ready for folding back the upper corners.]
Cut your square of paper even and straight. Place it out flat on top of
a bare table and fold at the centre along the dotted line (Fig. 26),
which will make Fig. 27. Bend each side of this down outwardly along its
centre at the dotted line and bring the edges a quarter of an inch lower
than the bottom fold A; then your paper will be four layers like Fig.
28. Turn
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