HOW TO MAKE A TOY WAGON AND SLED OR SLEIGH
Material Required to Make a Toy Wagon: the half of any oblong cardboard box. A few square inches of cardboard will be required, from which to cut cardboard disks for the wheels of the cart.
Material Required to Make a Sleigh: one oblong cardboard box with its cover. A sled may be made from the cover or lower half of any long box.
If you wish to make a toy wagon, find the half of some cardboard box. Turn this upward if it is the cover. Keep the lower half, if you use that, as it is, upright, open at the top. This is the body of the wagon.
Take your compass and with it draw on some cardboard four circles of the same size. These are the four wagon wheels. Cut each out.
Find two small sticks in the garden. They must each be a trifle longer than the width of your box. Press each through the end of the box where wheels should come—press clear through both opposite rims of your box. Then press a wheel upon each end of a stick, and put a bit of wax or some glue where the linchpin should come. Let the glue dry thoroughly before you attempt to play with your toy.
A strip of cardboard cut to fit the width of the cart and glued across its upper forward rims will make the driver’s seat.
The shafts are two strips of cardboard pasted to the forward sides of the cart. Cut each about half the length of your box.
Whoa there! Back up—back! There is your toy horse in the shafts. He is waiting for you to tie his string harness. He will be ready then to go on a trot round the floor.