Another Week’s Work for Infants

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)

Another Week’s Work for Infants

TJERE we are again at the beginning of another week, and what do you think you are going to have to make to-day? Yes, flowers: flowers of all colours and sizes and in such a quaint and pretty shape, too. They’ would look lovely made of felt, if mother has an old hat that she would give you to cut up, but if you can’t have felt, coloured paper will do just as well. Well, this is the way you make your flowers, and we will suppose first that you are going to make them from paper. Take two squares of paper, put them together and fold them in half; now, with a pencil draw the shape you see on the left of the diagram. Cut all round it, except along the fold of the paper, and then when you have dofie this open out your two pieces of paper. And what do you see? A lovely flower, just the same shape as the drawing on the right-hand side of the picture. Now, if you can find a fairly small bead, you can give your flower a centre by first threading your bead on a string and then threading your flower on as well. A lovely idea is to make a drooping spray of flowers by tying a knot in the thread and threading on

another flower a few inches away from the first. In this way you can have as long a spray as you like, and your flowers can be all the colours of the rainbow! Isn’t it fun? Fingers busy, little people! Tuesday. What do you think these cheeky little birds are doing perched away up on the top of a branch like this? They look as though they’ve run away from home and are enjoying themselves bo much they just won't take any notice of mother’s scoldings and entreaties to come back to the nest. “No! No!” I can almost hear the big one saying “I’ve grown up ,and I'm going to hunt my own spiders now! Good-bye ” And in a little while he will be gone, but not before you have had time to have such a fine game with him. You see all those dots covering the two little areas and the branches? Well, run and And some pieces of wool, any' colours you like, and a darning needle, and then I’ll tell you what the game is. All ready now? Well, .let’s start on Big Mr. Wren. Tie a knot in your wool, and start off, shall we say, at the very tip of his stiff little tail. Every dot marks the place where your needle must go through, and there must be no black lines showing when you have finished ; so just poke your needle up and down until you have covered up all the spaces. It would be a good idea to make his head, wings and tall a lovely bright blue, his legs and beak black and his eye bright orange; but you can please yourselves about this. Only be sure you make him look a gay, spruce fellow, and have the branches and leaves a fresh, springtime green if you can. Then won't you have,, a pretty bright picture to show your teachers later on!

Wednesday. More fun in store for you to-day 1 You will love making this clump of flowers look gay and colourful with circles of different coloured paper for the petals, and the pot a bright scarlet or green. Cut out little circles of paper the same size as the petals and gum them into position. Do the same with

your' pot, and then, if you like, you could paint the leaves green, or even tawny-gold. Cut the whole picture out when you have finished and paste it into your scrap-book. Thursday.

Drawing day again, and suppose today you try to draw a farmyard scene. Have you ever thought what fun it would be to have ducks and hens and geese cackling and quacking outside your back door? Well, just pretend now that they are there, and that you’re going to make a picture of them. You will all know how to draw a hen, but if you do get stuck, perhaps your illustrated story-books will help you. It would be a good idea to have a barn in the picture, too, and perhaps a tree clad in its gay autumn dress. See how nice a picture you can make of it to put in your scrap-books! Friday. And so we have come to the end of yet another week, and to-day we are going to make something quite different again—a sunshade! Then when you have tea parties out-doors for your doll family, you will be able to see that they don’t get any sun on the backs of their necks, which, as you all know, is just the place where Mr. Sun shouldn’t be allowed to get And this is how you make your sunshade. First of all you need a small strip of wood, and stick the top of this through a piece of cork about a quarter of an inch thick. Now round this cork stick pins, slightly slanting, like the ribs of an umbrella, and about half an inch apart. When you have them all in position, hunt up some scraps of wool, any odd lengths will do, and it doesn't matter how gay and gaudy the colours are. In fact, the gaudier the better, for that’s the way with sunshades, isn’t it? Tie the end of your wool to a pin. and then go right round, winding it once round every pin. You can make your shade all one colour, or it can be striped in ever bo many colours, just as you please. And the finished article will be sure to gladden any doll’s heart!