The wheels are circles cut from stiff cardboard. Find your compass to help draw them round. If you have no compass, use the outline of a small round saucer about two inches and a half in diameter to guide you in drawing the four wheels in outline. Draw a hub and spokes on each, if you like.
When you have drawn them, cut each out, and press through the axle of each one a round-headed paper-fastener. Bend its prongs to either side after you have pressed the wheel into place on the cart. The wheels may be glued, if you have no paper-fasteners to use for making axles.
Your cart will need a seat for the driver. This is made from the lower half of a small, narrow box about two inches in length. Cut off the short end rims, and glue one long rim to your wagon in front, so that it makes the dashboard and floor of the front of the cart under the seat. Paste a small pill-box on this to make the seat itself.
At the rear of your cart, you may make some steps by folding a strip of box rim twice and fastening it under the door with mucilage.
Shafts for the cart are two narrow strips of cardboard pasted to the forward part of the wagon.
There! The gipsy cart is finished. Penny dolls or tumble toys will be the gipsies.
Here come the gipsies a-jogging up the road!
They’re going up to Boxville. The horse has quite a load!
Good fortune’s coming to you, and it isn’t far away:
We’re going with the penny dolls a-gipsying in play!