When mother lets us make paper box furniture

by G. Ellingwood Rich

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WASH TUB AND BENCH.

For the bench use a long, narrow and shallow box and its cover. For a small bench use a spool box; for a larger one, a stocking box.

1. Use the box for the legs, and the cover for the top.

For the tub use a pasteboard ribbon “bolt.” For a larger tub, use one of the fancy miniature hat boxes used for silk flowers.

1. Cut out the top of the ribbon “bolt.”

2. Paint black “hoops” and little vertical lines to show the strips of wood of which a tub is made.

3. Make handles out of hairpins. Use thread to bind a tiny strip of paper around the wire for the “wooden” part of the handle.

For the washboard use part of the cover of a jewelry, corset or shoe box, according to the size of the tub.