Apple, Orange and Pumpkin Games
WE must have six little yellow pumpkins for our new Thanksgiving game, but we may hunt high and low, far and near, for real ones the required size, and not find them, because natural pumpkins are much too large. So we shall have to make oranges and apples into
Fig. 79.—Stand an apple on a square of paper.
Little Pumpkins
Select apples about two inches in diameter, all as near of a size as possible and preferably somewhat flattened at top and bottom. Cut a square of orange-colored tissue paper and stand an apple, stem uppermost, on its centre ([Fig. 79]). Bring one side of the tissue paper up to the top of the apple and take a wee plait in the paper, at the same time smoothing it up from the bottom of the apple ([Fig. 80]). Make several more plaits and bring the nearest corner of the paper up to the apple top. Continue plaiting the tissue paper around the apple ([Fig. 81]) while constantly smoothing it up from the bottom and over the apple until the apple is completely covered and all the edges and corners of the orange-colored paper are folded and brought together at the top of the apple ([Fig. 82]). Hold the covered apple in your left hand and with your right hand twist the ends of the tissue paper around the stem ([Fig. 83]).
| Fig. 80.—Take a plait in the paper. | Fig. 81.—Bring the nearest corner of the paper to the top of apple. |