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Evening Star, Issue 23065, 17 September 1938, Page 8

THE MONKEY ON THE STICK

THIS amusing little toy can be made by-almost anyone, as you will be able to And the materials in your own home, and you require practically no tools. It may be made either of cardboard or of tin, or of three-ply wood. If you have the tools and can make it of wood or metal so much the better, but if you have only cardboard available you can cut It out with scissors and it will work lust as well as if you made it with wood or metal First get a niece ol cardboard tor three-ply wood) and mark it off in haltinch squares as shown in Fig. 2 if you require a larger monkey set out the squares three-quar-ters ot an inch or an inch long. Carefully copy the patterns for the body, leg. and arm, as shown in Pig. 2, and then cut them out. Place the leg and the arm pieces on your material and trace round the shapes, and then cut a second arm and a second leg. Now get two pieces of wood, each onequarter of an inch square. one of which is about a foot long and the other 15in. long. Drill a small hole through each stick near the end. Assemble the parts of the monkey by fastening his arms and legs on to the body with paper fasteners or by a small piece of wire with a bead on each end. The main thing to see is that the arms and legs can move freely. Now fasten the monkey’s feet to the shorter stick by passing a pin through his feet and the hole in the stick, bending the point of the bln

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