Little Folks' Handy Book

by Lina Beard; Adelia B. Beard

CHAPTER X

TOYS MADE OF COMMON KINDLING WOOD

Just a glance at a pile of ordinary every-day kindling wood could hardly suggest to one the possibilities existing in the crude material for building all sorts of interesting and realistic things for the little folks, but experiment and you will find that Klondike log-houses, rail-fences and lumber camps, bridges, and substantial little rafts which will float on water in laundry or bath tub, pond or stream, can be easily and readily built from the little sticks we use to start our fires.

Let us build

The Bridge

first, that Indians and men may cross the water to the lumber region beyond, and cut logs for their rafts ([Fig. 125]).

Fig. 125—The little bridge built of kindling wood.

Select two sticks of kindling wood as near of a size as you can find, and lay them side by side, a short distance apart; then connect the two by placing sticks across the ends, log-cabin fashion. These four sticks form the square foundation of one bridge pier.