SPECIAL ARTICLES OF FURNITURE
Pictures and Clocks (Trade journals, scissors)
Cut from trade journals and attach to walls.
Lamp (Twist spool, toothpick, half egg-shell, wax)
Paste a bit of paper on top and bottom of twist spool. Through this stick a toothpick, which the paper should hold firmly. Upon the top of the toothpick fasten a half egg-shell for a globe with bit of wax or glue.
Stove (Cardboard, black ink or paint)
Make oblong box of cardboard. Turn upside down and cut openings for top of stove. Make a small hole in the back of the stove and insert in it a piece of paper rolled into a stove-pipe and pasted. Cut openings in front for the grate and ovens, leaving a door for the latter. Ink or paint black.
Windows (Thin white paper, oil, glue)
Brush a piece of white paper over with ordinary machine oil, or olive oil, or dip it in the oil and when dry glue in for windows, telling the children that not very long ago that was the only way in which light was admitted to many houses before glass became so common.
Isinglass may also be put in for windows.
Doll's Bedstead (Cigar-box, glue, gilt-headed tacks)
Saw the cover of box into two pieces, one for the head and one for the foot. Fasten in place to the box with the decorative tacks. Legs may be attached if desired.
Curtains (Cheesecloth or lace, needle, thread)
Cut small squares of cheesecloth and let the child hem and put in windows for curtains. Do not insist on very fine sewing for beginners. Curtains may be edged with lace, or the entire curtain may be made of lace, tacked or glued to inside of window.
Telephone (Two spools, nail, tin mucilage top, string, small flat block)
Take a flat piece of wood about two inches square. Glue to it the flat end of small spool. That is the 'phone. Another spool is the receiver hanging, when not in use, upon a nail driven into the wood. The mucilage top has the slot into which to drop the imaginary nickel.