Papering
1. Paper with wall-paper. Scraps of it may be saved when the home is being papered.
2. Oil-cloth effects may be obtained by pasting on floors or walls designs made with the kindergarten parquetry papers. (See [page 168].)
3. Friezes may be made in the same way by using circles and squares in rows, alternately or successively.
DOLL FURNITURE
1. Cork. (See [page 37].)
2. Block (Blocks of wood or kindergarten blocks, cubes and oblongs)
Glue these blocks together, three cubes making a little chair, and cubes and oblongs making a bed or sofa. Get the carpenter to saw a number of blocks of different shapes and sizes and let the child use his invention in putting them together. The furniture may be painted or gilded.
3. Paper or Cardboard
Take a piece of paper 1 × 2 inches. Fold crosswise. Make a dot ¼ inch from the folded edge and ⅛ inch from right hand edge. Make dot ¼ inch from fold and ⅛ inch from left hand edge. From open edges opposite fold make two parallel cuts to these dots. These cuts make the four legs. When opened out a table is seen with two extensions for drop-leaf. Cut one of these extensions off and a chair is made. If the original paper is longer and wider it can be made into a bed, what were the leaves of the table being bent up into the head and foot of the bed. An ingenious child can vary and elaborate this furniture ad infinitum. The backs can be cut into fancy form and arms given to chairs and sofa.