“Something to Make, Something to Do”

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 202, 23 May 1936, Page 25

“Something to Make, Something to Do”

The Pipe-clcaner Cat You can make a whole set of animals from pipe-cleaners, which cost a penny a bundle. First of all, let us make a cat. Take a pipe-cleaner and bend it to the shape shown in Fig. 1 ; this is the head and back. The projecting piece “A - ’ is one ear. Twist another cleaner round this one to make the under part of the body and the other ear. Two cleaners twisted round this make the legs. Now twist a number

of cleaners round and round the skeleton until you get the required fatness. You can leave pussy white, or put a few black marks here and there. The eyes can be put in with ink. or you can glue two beads for these on pussy's face.

A String Box

“Where is that string?" How often have you said that? Well here’s an easily-made string box that will stop you saying it in the future. Once inside the box, the string is always at banc when wanted.

It can be made in wood, metal or cardboard, but as the last material is the

easiest to work, we will assume that you are making the box of that. Au empty cardboard box, which you can easily get, should be glued to a round base, as shown at (A). Out of another disc of cardboard, cut a section as shown at (B), and glue the two edges together so that it forms a cone-shaped roof. A small hole for the string to pass through must, of course, be made at the apex, or top. of the cone. The lid of the original box is now needed, and should be glued to the bottom of the cone—but not before a hole has been made in the centre of it, and the string threaded through both the lid and the cone. If you glue them together, and try to thread the string through afterward, you will find it more difficult. You should now have reached the stage shown at (C), and. apart from the decoration. your string box is finished. Paint the box to represent a cottage like that shown at (D).