We’ll have a little farmyard
With a fence around it, too!
BOX BROTHERS’ ANIMAL SHOW
Material Required to Make an Animal Show: small boxes of all shapes and sizes, spools, and candy-box favors, a round bandbox cover to make a circus ring.
The cover of a round bandbox will make a splendid circus ring. Any small boxes and spools you may have can be the benches for your trained animals to perform upon. A really good circus may be made with Noah’s Ark animals, or with the candy-box favors that come to one at Christmas and other holiday times.
Shall I tell you how I made my circus? You can make one like it.
First of all, I collected animals. At a small candy shop, I found a polar bear, a rhinoceros, a fox, and a pig. Each came with a loose head, because the animals were supposed to be filled with candy, but I glued the heads on tight. I bought these animals because they were so cheap.
They could stand upon spools to make acts for the circus ring. I painted each spool red, and pasted over its hole a disk of colored cardboard.
From round box covers I made pyramids, and from square ones I cut benches. (To cut bench for animal show, see [Diagram Six, A], page 175.) Cut a leg at each corner of the box-cover’s rim. Remove the cardboard from between cuttings.