Measure the size of its ends, and cut two triangular pieces of cardboard to fit over them and form gables. Glue each to an end of the house. (For cutting triangular roof supports, see [Diagram Three, BB], page 169.)
Cut a door and a window in the front of your house. Both must first be outlined on the box in pencil. Mark the door an inch wide and two inches high, an oblong with base at the edge of the box rim. (For door, see [Diagram Two, A], page 167.) Cut the top line and down one long side. Bend the door outward as if it were on a hinge. One-inch squares may be cut in the box rim to make windows. (For cutting a window, see [Diagram One, A], page 166.) Cut the square on all four sides.
Place a window under the roof in the point of the gable, if you like.
The roof of the cottage is made by measuring, first, the size of the building you wish to cover. Measure this on your corrugated cardboard, and add three inches to its length and breadth. Fold the corrugated cardboard together to make a pointed roof. (See [Diagram Three, C], page 170.) Glue this to the building, and the little shepherd’s hut is finished.
You may make a landscape of mountains behind it, where the sheep may go to graze. These are blocks or boxes covered with crape paper. Do not use glue or paste in doing this. The paper is merely folded over them.
A pretty stream may be made from an irregularly cut strip of silver paper. The woolly sheep love to drink at a stream, I am sure. You can see the lake I made for my landscape. It was a mirror. A rocky ledge on the mountain-side or by the lake is made with pretty pebbles such as you may find in the country.
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow;
A little shepherd guarded it in sheepfold, don’t you know!
It didn’t go to Boxville School, it grazed about in play
Upon the green crape-paper field that Mary made one day.