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BOOKS BY LINA BEARD AND ADELIA B. BEARD Illustrated by the Authors ON THE TRAIL THINGS WORTH DOING AND HOW TO DO THEM RECREATIONS FOR GIRLS INDOOR AND OUTDOOR WHAT A GIRL CAN MAKE AND DO, AND NEW IDEAS FOR WORK AND PLAY THE AMERICAN GIRL'S HANDY BOOK; or, HOW TO AMUSE YOURSELF
AND OTHERS LITTLE FOLKS' HANDY BOOK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Little Folks' Handy Book By LINA BEARD AND ADELIA B. BEARD With Many Illustrations by the Authors Charles Scribner's Sons
NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Printed in the United States of America J
SPECIAL NOTICE All the material in this book, both text and cuts, is original with the
authors and invented by them; and warning is hereby given that the
unauthorized printing of any portion of the text and the reproduction of
any of the illustrations or diagrams are expressly forbidden.
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PREFACE
"LET me do it. Let me make it," is the cry when a child sees an
older person putting together the different parts of an interesting
piece of work; and it is this desire to do things himself, this impulse
toward self expression, that, when properly directed, forms so great a
factor in his all around development and education. Using the hands and
brain together stimulates interest and quickens observation and
intelligence, and, as the object takes form beneath the little fingers,
the act of making, of creating, brings with it a delight and
satisfaction which the mere possession of the same thing made by another
can not give. "Look! See what I have made," comes with a ring of
triumph as the childish hands gleefully hold up the finished article for
inspection. In this book we have endeavored to open a new and large field of simple
handicrafts for little folk, giving them an original line of toys and a
new line of materials with which to make them. We hope in these pages to
bring to children the joy of making creditable and instructive toys of
such ordinary things as empty spools, sticks of kindling wood, wooden
clothespins, natural twigs, old envelopes and newspapers, and in this
way to encourage resourcefulness, originality, inventiveness, and the
power to do with supplies at hand. Everything described in the book has been actually made by the authors,
and made by such practical and simple methods that a child's mind can
grasp them, and a child's hands be easily trained to manufacture the
articles. It is, therefore, our hope that the "Little Folks' Handy Book"
will be found useful both in Kindergarten and Primary grades of the
schools and in the home nursery; a helpful friend to teachers and to
mothers. LINA BEARD.
ADELIA B. BEARD. FLUSHING, N. Y., February 10, 1910.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. PAPER BUILDING CARDS 1 II. TOYS MADE OF COMMON WOODEN BERRY BASKETS 5 III. STRAW AND PAPER FURNITURE 9 IV. A NEWSPAPER BOAT WHICH WILL SAIL ON REAL WATER 15 V. PAPER JEWELRY 19 VI. WHAT TO MAKE OF EMPTY SPOOLS 28 VII. OLD ENVELOPE TOYS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM 47 VIII. TOYS OF CLOTHESPINS 55 IX. SCRAP BOOKS 64 X. TOYS MADE OF COMMON KINDLING WOOD 70 XI. LITTLE TWIG PEOPLE 79 XII. VISITING CARD HOUSES 90 XIII. PLAYING INDIANS WITH COSTUMES MADE OF NEWSPAPERS 98 XIV. CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATIONS 106 XV. A HOME MADE SANTA CLAUS 124 XVI. NATURE STUDY WITH TISSUE PAPER 130
LITTLE FOLKS' HANDY BOOK
CHAPTER I PAPER BUILDING CARDS
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