([Fig. 528]) is made by breaking the egg in the desired shape, first drawing a line with pencil, so that it may be correct, then piercing the pencil line with a fine needle. The wee cradle thus formed is pasted on rockers made of stiff paper and bent down at each end ([Fig. 529]).
| Fig. 529.—Cut the rockers by this pattern. | Fig. 530.—An egg-shell bird’s nest. |
Fig. 531.—The little sail boat.
Bird’s Nest
The bird’s nest is simply half of an egg-shell, the outside covered first with a thin coat of glue and then with moss. This is to be filled with candy eggs ([Fig. 530]).
Sail Boat
The egg-shell boat will sail very prettily in a basin of water. It is half of a shell, with a tissue-paper sail ([Fig. 531]), the mast cut of stiff paper ([Fig. 532]), folded at the dotted line. [Fig. 533] is the sail cut from colored or white tissue paper. The straight edge of the sail is placed in the fold of the mast and the two halves of the mast pasted together down to the cross line at the bottom. This lower part is slit up, as in diagram 532, and the flaps bent in opposite direction. These are used for braces in holding the mast upright and are glued to the bottom of the boat. The pennant ([Fig. 534]) is cut of bright-colored tissue paper, and fastened on the top of the sail ([Fig. 531]).
| Fig. 532.—Make the mast of stiff paper. | Fig. 533.—A tissue paper sail. | Fig. 534.—The pennant. |