FOR THE LITTLE ONES

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 154, 2 July 1927, Page 3 (Supplement)

FOR THE LITTLE ONES

A RACE FOR CHAMPIONS, MR. STUBBY AND HIS BROTHER.

Dear Little Friends, — I wonder how many of us there are who don't like being out in the open, running round with plenty of .pace to play tiggy or hide-and-.eek, or any other game we choo«e? Very few, I'm sore. The first moment we have a chance out we go, straight into the garden or to the nearest paddock, there to play and run races to oar hearts' content. Now, it's a sad fact that we can't always be out in those nice open places, free to rush about as much as we wish. Sometime, we have to stay indoors because of a grey sky overhead and wet grass underfoot. That's when it's so hard to know what to do. We can't play tiggy because it makes too much noise, and after a while we grow tired of hide-and-seek. Let's run a race, not a real one of course; there's not enough room for that. We'll make two little men out of cardboard to do it instead. The bert way to do this is to draw one and trace it on to two pieces of stiff, white cardboard. You'll find that a rather fat little man, about six inches high, i» best for the purpose. When you've cut out your drawing, make a hole in the place where the mouth should be. Now you need two long piece, of string. Take a chair and tie a piece to each of its back legs. Next thread on your cardboard figures. You wul by this time have chosen name, for them both. I think that "Stubby" and "Tubby" would be rather appropriate, don't you? If you jerk the string gently, they'll _^^^^^^ travel along quite easily. The winner / 1/ is, of course, the one who reaches his I chairleg first.