MAKING A TOY BASKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 11, 13 January 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)

MAKING A TOY BASKET.

If you Lave not room for a nursery, and your children Lave to play in the living room, it is very important that they should have somewhere to keep their toys. A cupboard is splendid for storing toys, if it can be spared, or a few shelves placed near the ground so that the children caii reach them, and protected from dust by a curtain, will serve. If there is no suitable place, provide a basket —any large cheap basket will do. The basket should then be covered with any odd piece of .gaily coloured material. Not only will this make it more attractive to the child, but it will also prevent the scratching of floors and furniture .vhen the basket is dragged about. Several small piece 3 may be joined to form a strip long enough and deep enough to go round the outside. This should be joined to fit the top rim of the basket, and the lower edge gathered into a circular piece of material the size of the base. The inside should be covered in the same way, and the two coverings sown together round the top rim of the basket. The child should be taught to keep all its small toys and boxes in the basket and to put them away tidily before going to bed. In this way, not only will the living room be kept tidy when play hours are over, but none of the children's precious treasures will be lost.