The Boat-house or Yacht Club is made from the half of a deep box
about eight inches long. Its roof and floor are shoe-box covers.
The flagstaff is a pencil.
Boxcraft Houseboat is made from the lower half of a plain shoe-box.
Two shoe-box covers make the rest of the boat.
BOXVILLE BOAT-HOUSE OR YACHT CLUB
Material Required to Make a Boxville Boat-house: the lower half of a deep box about six inches long, and also two shoe-box covers.
Boxville Boat-house is made from an oblong box about two-thirds the size of a shoe-box. Its wharf is a shoe-box cover, and its roof is another shoe-box cover.
If you wish to cut a lake from a sheet of silver paper, the boat-house or yacht club is the very thing for this play. Any water toys, such as swans, ducks, fish, or frogs, may swim on Silver Paper Lake, and from your yacht club, parties of fishermen may angle for magnetized fish. The boat-house may be a part of the summer attractions of Hotel Bandbox in season.
To make a boat-house building, you will first need to turn your box over upon its rims so that its bottom becomes its top.
Draw a three-inch square on one short end of your box. Let its base come to the extreme edge of the box rim. This square is to be the door you see in the picture. Draw a vertical line down the center of this square. This gives two doors for the doorway. (To cut double door, see [Diagram Two, B], page 167.) Cut across the top line and down the center to the outer rim. Bend outward the two halves of the doorway.