Sheepfold and Shepherd’s Cote. Corrugated cardboard is used for roof
and fences.
The Bridge over Mirror Lake. It is made from a
long shallow box with a cover.
BUILDING A BOX BRIDGE
Material Required to Make a Box Bridge: a long cardboard box with cover, a strip of cardboard about ten inches long.
When you look at the picture of Box Bridge, you will easily see, I think, how it is made. It may be used in many ways for play. Your toy railway system may have a bridge as well as a freight station and tunnel. A box bridge may connect opposite shores of Silver Paper Lake, and the delivery wagon from Boxville’s General Store may jog happily over the bridge to deliver goods at Boxville Cottage. Guests from Hotel Bandbox may fish from the bridge. I am sure you will find many other things to play with it, so I will tell you how to make one, even though it does seem as if you might almost make one without directions!
Take the box that you wish to use for a bridge. Remove its cover.
Turn the lower half of the box over so that the bottom of the box becomes top. Cut a semicircular piece from each long rim. This makes the long arch of the bridge. (See [Diagram Four, A], page 173.)