Art & Craft For Kids

Making A Crazy Path in the Garden A crazy path gives your garden an old-world appearance which is very pleasing. Most people construct such paths out of odd-shaped pieces of flag-stones; but the varying thicknesses of the pieces gives the path an uneven tread, which makes walking not at all easy. In fact, a surface of this character is positively …

Catching a Spider Web Few things are more fragile than a spider’s web and most people would think it was nonsense to try and keep one for any length of time. As a matter of fact, we have one that was made last autumn and it is as perfect to-day as it was when the spider wove it. How did …

A Novel Flower Bed Have you a pair of old motor-tyre covers that nobody wants? If so, why not make this novel flower bed with them? Just drop them down somewhere, one of top of the other, preferably on a stretch of the lawn, up near one corner. Drive four wooden stakes into the ground inside the covers and equidistant, …

Nesting Boxes Fifteen years ago we built a nesting box and hung it on a tree in a shady spot of the garden where cats could not reach it. During every one of those fifteen years it had been tenanted by blue tits. These feathered visitors have made a welcome addition to the garden, which most of us would appreciate. …

A Copper Name-Plate For The House You cannot go into a shop and buy a name-plate for fixing to your front gate, and it costs quite a bit to get one made specially. You can, however, make one yourself, and if you do it to your parent’s satisfaction what more could be desired? You will want, first of all, a …

Making a Ladder Most boys like to make a ladder at some time or other in their careers, and you may be contemplating the construction of one, at the moment. There is nothing difficult about putting a ladder together, if you do not mind it being a triffle heavy. You will want two pieces of wood, square in section, with …

An Easily Made Parachute Great fun can be had by flying a parachute on days when there is a moderate wind. You want to stand on a small hill with the breeze behind you. Be careful when letting the apparatus free that the threads are not entangled and that the paper dome is in proper shape. To make a good …

A Broom for the Garden Stiff bass brooms can be purchased quite cheaply, but while they will do many forms of sweeping admirably, they are not nearly so good as a besom for getting the leaves off the lawn or doing up a sanded path. A broom of this kind can be easily made, and will give good service for …

An Aerial Ropeway This increasingly popular form of transporting goods suggests an up-to-date mechanical toy which will provide a great deal of amusement. The first necessity is a pair of stout wooden uprights, suitably weighted so that they will not pull over. Wood one inch square in section and about six inches high will be suitable, if each upright is …

Ice and Boiling Water Take an ordinary test tube and fill it nearly to the top with cold water. Into the tube drop a small piece of ice about the size of a marble or cherry. We want it to stay at the bottom of the water, but being lighter than water it floats. To overcome this put a ring …