Humpty-Dumpty Eggs (Shell, shot, water-color paints, a bit of cotton-batting, and a bit of tough paper)
Take a shell and empty of contents as described above. Enlarge the hole at one end sufficiently to drop in a dozen tiny shot obtainable at hardware store. Paste over the opening the bit of paper, and on that a little cotton to simulate hair. Paint upon the surface eyes, nose, and mouth. A comical little toy which always regains its balance, however placed, is the result. In playing with this the child unconsciously imbibes a few ideas about equilibrium, equipoise, etc. Tell him you want him to be a man that, however placed, will always be able to get upon his feet again.
Foot-ball, or rather it might be called Breath-ball (Egg-shell, water-color paints)
Take an empty shell and paint to resemble a football or in some college or High School colors. See [page 99] for directions for game.
Toy Lamp (See under Doll-Houses)
PRUNES AND RAISINS
Turtle (Raisin and five cloves)
Take a plump raisin and stick into it five cloves for head and legs.
Man (Raisins or prunes, toothpicks)
Make a man by running a toothpick through three raisins for a body. Into the top one stick two other toothpicks, with two raisins each for arms and two other toothpicks with raisins make the legs. Each leg has a projecting raisin for a foot and another large raisin makes the head. These are fun-makers for a children's party, one at each plate.