BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1930, Page 20 (Supplement)

BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

fr’’■ ■ ' -■ ••” (. HOW TO MAKE A NOAH'S ARK.

PRESENT FOR A SMALL BROTHER.

Here is an interesting.little toy which, you can easily-mike from pieces of packing-case wood, about a quarter of Ap inch thick. ,- : : Mark pjitvthe two ends of the houpe to the sizes given at A, and cut these to 'shape. The little window in the centre of each piece can be painted-in afterwards. Plane all edges and finisji off the surface of each, part with glasspaper. _> J •' ( Epch side of the housq measures- n|n<? inches by, four inches. Mark out three windows and a door bp ope side, and three windows only on the other. Glue

and nail thd side pieces. to-tl)e ends. When the’ glue has set, bevel the top edges of the sides at 8.8. to the same angle as the sloping roof. For the deck C, saw and plane a piece of wood, fourteen and a ! half 1 inches long and six inches wide, and round off the corners. Nail the sides of the house, to the deck with fine wire nails driven in from' underneath.. ’ . One side of the roof is eleven inches long by four inches wide and the other is the. same length, but a quarter'of. an inch'wider to allow for the overlap at the ridge ..shown in Diagram; D. Nail the back part of the roof qn first. The front 'is' divided at a. distance, qf one inch from the top edge, and hipged to form a lid. The narrow part; at the (top is nailed on, so that, it overlaps the back" roof ? part as shown. • Cut these "two pieces of wood to the sizes given at E, for the sides of the hull, g,nd two' more pieces F, for the bo-w--and stern- Nail these parts ' together so that the parts F come between the sides, and' then bevel the edges of each end.piece. A piece of three-ply wood will do for the Mttom' G, which can be cut to the required size and nailed oh. ’The deck, with the house mounted on it, can how be glued and nailed to the hull. To finish the toy, paint it in different colours, or, better still, paint the hull and deck only and decorate the house

with doll’s house: paper—brick pattern for the sides and ends, and slate •' tiling pattern for 'the roof. Outline the window frames in white, paint the panes blue -and the door dark brown. You will, of. course, want some toy animals to put into the Noah’s . Ark, and next week I will tell you a simple way' to make these. The Hut Carpenter.