[CHAPTER IX]
PAPER FLOWERS AND TOYS
Fig. 83
It sometimes seems, on a rainy day, as if there was nothing to do because you have not the materials that are needed for certain occupations—but there is always paper. You may not, of course, have all the things that are used in making tissue-paper flowers, unless you have been so thrifty as to buy them, looking forward to just such a time as this. But if you cannot make the flowers at once, you can decide which ones you wish to do and plan a list of the materials you will need. Then there are numbers of things that you can fashion from watercolour paper, or even heavy note paper and cardboard; so let us get out pencil and paper, paste and scissors, and begin.
| Materials Required: | 2 large sheets of linen writing paper |
| 1 sheet of deep-yellow tissue paper, | |
| 1 sheet of olive-green tissue paper, | |
| A little cotton batting, | |
| A long wire stem, | |
| A tube of paste, | |
| Pen and ink, | |
| Scissors. |
Fig. 84