Inside view of the Village Store. The counter is a hat-pin box.
The District School of Boxville. It is made from a shoe-box.
Inside view of the Boxville School. The desks are all cut from small
oblong boxes. The benches are boxes also; and the stove is a spool
with a pencil for a stovepipe.
THE DISTRICT SCHOOL OF BOXVILLE
Material Required for Building a Toy School: one shoe-box with its cover, a half-sheet of cardboard, three small boxes about three inches long, the cover of some narrow little box which has an inner drawer, a pencil, a spool, and a box two inches long.
Did you ever before see a toy school-house? I don’t believe you have ever seen anything like Boxville School, so I am going to tell you how you may build one like it.
First, you will need a shoe-box to form the house itself. Its cover is the roof. To this, at either end of the box, are glued two side walls which hold the roof in place, slanting. The cover of some tiny narrow box which is made with an inner drawer is the chimney. Inside, the desks are made from the lower parts of three boxes about three inches long. Their three covers make the benches. A teacher’s desk may be made from any small box you have. Its cover is teacher’s chair. A spool forms the stove, and a pencil is the stovepipe.