At the back of the fort, you may easily devise a sallyport by cutting the cardboard door shaped. (For cutting a door, see [Diagram Two, A], page 167.)
A toy cannon may be made with a small round hair-pint box by pasting it upon the side of a spool between the wheels of the spool. A thumb-tack pressed beneath one wheel of the cannon will keep it upright and prevent rolling. I painted my guns black. If you like, you may easily do this with water-color paints.
An encampment of tents may be made from small white box covers cut through each long side rim up to the top of the cover and bent, to each side of the center downward. (See [Diagram Three, E], page 171, for making a tent.)
If you happen to have a penny flag, it will be just the very thing to wave over Fort Box.
You can arrange your fort upon a sheet of crape paper and make streams and woods all about it. The streams will be strips of silver paper pasted onto the green crape paper. The woods will be bits of twigs pressed into the holes of spools so that the trees stand upright. Bushes are just bits of twigs that may be laid down flat. Rocks and mountains may be made from stones.
I had a leaden soldier,
His name was Tommie Tin!
Oh, he was brave in battle,
And always fought to win!
I made him into general,