Fig. [435].—Tissue-paper for making witch.
Each player in turn must take the shovel and dig in the mine until one gold nugget is found. He must then open the package carefully and read aloud the fortune Fate has given him, while the other players look on and listen. The fairies can readily whittle or saw out a wooden mining shovel from a shingle or thin box-lid. Tell them to make it about four inches long and three wide, with a handle eleven inches in length. Try to think of original ideas to write on the slips of fortune paper, or, failing these, look up apt quotations for the prophecies. If you can have the lines bright and witty, writing something that will cause a laugh when read aloud, without hurting anyone's feelings, your Hallowe'en mining will be a great success.
The Apple Witch
understands well the art of fortune-telling. She is a funny little creature made of a stick ([Fig. 434]), some yellow tissue-paper and an apple. A strip of the tissue-paper is gathered ([Fig. 435]), drawn tight together at the top and placed over the stick with a thread wound around a short distance from the top to form the head ([Fig. 436]). The arms are pieces of tissue-paper ([Fig. 437]) folded lengthwise ([Fig. 438]) and run through a hole punched in the body ([Fig. 439]). The face is marked with ink on the head ([Fig. 439]). Small strips of tissue-paper gathered like [Fig. 440] are sewed on each arm to form the sleeves. Hair of black thread or darning cotton tied in the centre ([Fig. 441]) is sewed on the yellow paper head.
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Fig. [439].—Arms run through hole in body of witch.
Fig. [440].—Sleeves for witch.
The Witch's Hat