Fig. 13.—House arranged on a table. Back view. Built by second grade. Columbia, Missouri.
Hammers, several of medium size.
Try-square, a very valuable tool for setting right angles, provided the teacher and pupils know how to use it.
Fig. 14.—House plan.
Arrangement of Rooms.—The sort of house a man can build is governed by his resources and his site. Considering the number of boxes as resources and the table or shelf on which they are to stand as the site, the same big factors which enter into any house-building problem control the size and style of the schoolroom playhouse. What sort of house is desired? What sort of house can be built from the materials at hand? What sort of house can be built in the space at our disposal?
The boxes may be arranged on a shelf with all the open sides toward the class, as in [Fig. 9]. This economizes space, and all of the rooms are visible at once. A two-story house is easily built on this plan. If economy of space is not necessary, the boxes may be placed on a table with the open sides of the boxes toward the edges of the table, as in [Figs. 11], [12], and [13]. This permits a more artistic grouping of the rooms. (See [Fig. 14].)