AN AFRICAN ENCAMPMENT
What about making an African encampment?. It's really most interesting, and you'll be able to play with it. ! for hours afterwards. And it Is quite easy to'do. Just get a big piece of cardboard,'cover it with dark brown paper, and then make some little AfriIcan huts, and stick them here and i there over your encampment. To' ! make each hut cut a piece oft the tube of an old long gas mantle, box about 1 three inches in depth. If you cannot get hold of such a box because you happen to have electric light in your house, cut,!a flat piece of cardboard five inches by three, roll it over, and stick it together firmly. Cut out a tiny doorway. Next cover both the hut and the ground of the encampment with dark brown modelling clay. When this is strewn unevenly over the ground it will help you to stand the huts firmly. Get a bunch of wisps of straw, tie them tightly together near one end and then spread the other ends out over the roof of the hut, allowing the wisps to stick over, the edge a little, all round. ' Perhaps you have some lively warriors among your toy soldiers. Stand these in the encampment; and, if you are very clever, you may be able to model other . little "blackies" from clay. " . •
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 20
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227AN AFRICAN ENCAMPMENT Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 20
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