for your camp. Select a rather long, narrow wooden packing-box ([Fig. 263]), and on each end tack an extra pointed pasteboard end ([Fig. 264]). To make the pasteboard end you will have to measure the height of the packing-box, and cut from an old pasteboard box a strip of pasteboard wide enough to fit the height of the wooden box and long enough to allow for tacking on the end of the wooden box and extending far enough out beyond the box to form half, or one side, of the pointed end with two inches over. Score the extra two inches and bend ([Fig. 265]); the bend A forms the extreme end when the pasteboard point is bent in shape. Cut another strip of pasteboard two inches shorter than the first strip, and sew it on the two-inch bent flap of the first strip ([Fig. 266]). Score the two ends of the long strip and be careful to score them on the side that will cause the pasteboard to bend outward in the right direction, then bend ([Fig. 267]).
| Fig. 266.—The second pasteboard strip is sewed on first strip. | Fig. 267.—The pasteboard is now ready to be tacked on to box making pointed end. |
Tack the pasteboard strip on the end of the wooden box and make another pasteboard point for the other end of the box ([Fig. 264]). Cover both pasteboard ends with stout paper by gumming the paper over and down on the outside top edge of the pasteboard points.
Fig. 268.—With the seats in place it is a boat.
Make the boat seats of short boards laid across from side to side of the wooden box and nailed in place ([Fig. 268]). Use broom-sticks for oars, and make believe the boat is off on the water, a long distance from the tent.
Fig. 269.—The row-boat is turned into a sail-boat.