ade by another
can not give. "Look! See what _I_ have made," comes with a ring of
triumph as the childish hands gleefully hold up the finished article for
inspection.

In this book we have endeavored to open a new and large field of simple
handicrafts for little folk, giving them an original line of toys and a
new line of materials with which to make them. We hope in these pages to
bring to children the joy of making creditable and instructive toys of
such ordinary things as empty spools, sticks of kindling wood, wooden
clothespins, natural twigs, old envelopes and newspapers, and in this
way to encourage resourcefulness, originality, inventiveness, and the
power to do with supplies at hand.

Everything described in the book has been actually made by the authors,
and made by such practical and simple methods that a child's mind can
grasp them, and a child's hands be easily trained to manufacture the
articles. It is, therefore, our hope that the "Little Folks' Handy Book"
will be found useful both in Kindergarten and Primary grades of the
schools and in the home nursery; a helpful friend to teachers and to
mothers.

LINA BEARD.
ADELIA B. BEARD.

FLUSHING, N. Y., _February 10, 1910._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. PAPER BUILDING CARDS 1

II. TOYS MADE OF COMMON WOODEN BERRY-BASKETS 5

III. STRAW AND PAPER FURNITURE 9

IV. A NEWSPAPER BOAT WHICH WILL SAIL ON REAL WATER 15

V. PAPER JEWELRY 19

VI. WHAT TO MAKE OF EMPTY SPOOLS 28

VII. OLD ENVELOPE TOYS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM 47

VIII. TOYS OF CLOTHESPINS 55

IX. SCRAP-BOOKS 64

X. TOYS MADE OF COMMON KINDLING WOOD 70

XI. LITTLE TWIG PEOPLE 79

XII. VISITING-CARD HOUSES 90

XIII. PLAYING INDIANS WITH COSTUMES MADE OF NEWSPAPERS 98

XIV. CHRISTMAS-TREE DECORATIONS 106

XV. A HOME-MADE SANTA CLAUS 124

XVI. NATURE STUDY WITH TISSUE-PAPER 130

LITTLE FOLKS' HANDY BOOK

CHAPTER I

PAPER BUILDING CARDS

MAKE your building