The boat-house is to have windows, and each window is to have an awning over it. To make windows with awnings, first draw on each long side of your box, two one-inch squares. Each square should be drawn about an inch and a half from a corner of the box. Each square should be half-way between top and bottom of the building. (For windows with awnings, see [Diagram One, C], page 166.) Cut down both side lines and across the base line. Bend the cut cardboard outward and upward to form an awning. Color this awning with red stripes, using your crayons or water-color paints.
When all windows are cut, then you may place your little building at the rear of the shoe-box cover which forms the wharf.
Over the top of your building, fit another shoe-box cover to form a projecting roof over the wharf.
A long pencil will be a fine flagstaff. Run its point through the front of the boat-house roof, and glue to the top of the pencil a triangular piece of colored paper to make the pennant.
My little Boxville people
Have a club-house where they go
When they want to do some fishing,
Or they want to take a row.
It stands beside a paper lake,
Upon my play-room floor;