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When mother lets us make paper box furniture cover

When mother lets us make paper box furniture

Chapter 30: BOOK SHELVES.
By G. Ellingwood Rich
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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.

BOOK SHELVES.

Use a shallow box with a cover which entirely overlaps it, like an ordinary candy box or a note paper box. For a very small bookcase, use a box such as druggists use for powders.

1. Study the picture carefully. Notice how one end of the cover is cut off and then fastened on the top to form the little railing.

2. All the shelves are made from the box. If the case is tall enough for three shelves, use both ends and a piece of the middle.

3. If the case is not tall enough, then make two shelves, using only the ends.

When fitting the shelves, push the box in as far as it will go; then mark where it is to be cut off.

4. For books, use the corrugated cardboard in which bottles are packed. Cut strips of this, making some parts high and some parts low, to look like a row of books. By painting them different colors, and making little marks to suggest the titles, they can be made to look very much like books.

The strips must be cut long enough to be bent back and fastened to the sides.

Details of Book Case.

  • Candy box or note paper box
  • Cover—cut small piece from bottom
  • Fasten on top—clip corners
  • Fit box for shelf
  • Mark—cut on dots
  • Fit other end of box
  • Mark—cut on dots
  • Fit middle of box
  • Mark—cut on dots
  • Fasten shelves
  • Shape bottom

DOLLY’S CORRESPONDENCE

Cut tooth picks up for pencils,
And fold small papers, too;
Tuck these inside the little desk,
As grown up people do.
Fit a piece of mother’s blotter
On the shelf on which you write;
Lay on this your doll’s note paper,
Choosing dainty blue or white.

Writing Desk.