Diagram 2
“Ou!” chuckled Katherine. “Store!”
“We’ll cut round disks for money—yellow paper for gold, silver striped paper for nickles, dimes, quarters and fifty-cent pieces. We’ll make green paper bills—”
“And write on each how much each is—”
“We can do it with crayon—”
“Hush!” sighed Mother. “I want to read Katherine’s crow letter. Listen!”
“There are other things beside pin-wheels that you can make—how about bright-colored butterflies? The papers that are yellow, blue, green, red, purple make lovely butterflies. You cut them like this. Fold your paper double and cut. And then unfold it and you will have a butterfly! Tie a dark thread to the upper part of the butterfly’s body and run with the end of the thread in your hand. The butterfly will fly behind you, if you trot as fast as feet can go. It is nice to play this outdoors in the garden for you can make your butterfly alight on shrubs and bushes.”
“Oh,” interrupted Jimsi, “we can make some butterflies for Katherine out of the wall papers that have plain patterns on them. Just keep the patterns even and cut. That will make lovely wings! I want to try it—”
“Shoo!” cried Mother. “I want to finish the letter. My coffee is growing cold. Shoo!” Again she read:
“I’ll tell you another toy little girls and big girls and even boys can make. It’s a bird with wings—”