Fig. [377].—Stick frame for apple Jap.
Make the nose crescent-shaped, and pin it on with two white pins. The mouth must be much larger than the nose, though cut in similar shape. Hold the mouth in position by running a row of white pins through it into the head. The pins will also form the Jap's teeth. Cut the hair of black paper ([Fig. 375]); if you have no black paper, make some with ink. Fringe the hair as in [Fig. 376]; then fasten the circle of stiff black hair on top of the head with black pins. Use a russet apple or a yellow one for the Jap, because, you know, these people do not have red cheeks or fair skins. When the head is finished, push it down on the top of a stick across which has been fastened another shorter stick near the top ([Fig. 377]). Make a simple kimono-like gown of paper and hang it on over the Jap's arms. If you wish, you can paste the edges or seams of the garment together ([Fig. 373]).
Find a firm, sound, round apple, and we can
Build a Tower
([Fig. 378]). Cut the fruit into rather thick slices, select the middle slice, that being the largest, and stick four toothpicks into it ([Fig. 379]). Take the slice next in size and push it down tight on top of the four toothpicks ([Fig. 380]). Stick four more toothpicks into the second slice ([Fig. 381]), placing the toothpicks in the spaces on the second slice between the lower first four toothpicks ([Fig. 381]). On the tops of the last toothpicks fasten another slice of apple, then stick in more toothpicks and so on, always remembering to place the top toothpicks in the spaces on the apple slice left between the lower toothpicks. Build up the tower at least seven slices high and do the work carefully, keeping the toothpicks straight and even, that the apple tower may stand erect and not resemble the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa; for if your building should incline to one side, as does the Pisa tower, it would not long retain that position, but the entire structure would come tumbling down, obliging you to try building again with another apple.
| Fig. [379].—Foundation of apple tower. | Fig. [380].—Second floor of apple tower. | Fig. [381].—Ready for third floor. |
A fine Dutch windmill can be made of one apple and a paper pin-wheel, and there are lots of other interesting things you may manufacture from the same fruit.
Fig. [378].—Apple tower.