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When mother lets us make paper box furniture

Chapter 23: DINING TABLE.
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About This Book

A practical craft manual for children and supervising adults gives step-by-step instructions for turning discarded boxes into toy furniture, covering materials, tools, measuring, scoring, cutting and fastening with brass fasteners, plus safety tips. It presents illustrated, proportioned patterns and detailed construction for room-by-room pieces—parlor, bedroom, dining room, kitchen and hall—including beds, tables, chairs, stoves, pianos and storage units—along with variations, decorative finishes and assembly details. Introductory notes suggest suitable box sizes, ways to adapt designs, age-appropriate tasks, and community uses such as gifts, club projects or hospital donations, encouraging creativity and practical skill development.

DINING TABLE.

Use a deep box and the cover of another larger box. The cover must be about the same shape, but enough larger to project over the box like the top of a table.

A correspondence card box may be used. Quite deep and strong boxes for this purpose may be got from a drug store or dry goods store.

1. Place the box bottom up.

2. Place the cover on top and put fasteners through it into the box. A piece of cardboard may be used, if you haven’t a cover of the right size.

3. Cut the legs as shown in the picture.

4. Paint to match the other furniture.

Details of Dining Table.

  • Cover of slightly larger box
  • “Correspondence card” box
  • Fastened—bottom of box up
  • Legs and rails cut

THE FAMILY AT DINNER.

Put this arm chair at the head of the table,
And into it put father doll;
Before him place the platter for meat,
And play that he serves them all.
At the opposite end, where the tea set stands,
Of course mother doll should be,
And on either side of the table,
Their little children you’ll see.

Arm Chair.