Show I Il l Jj off 4 t i i U i y U m ji 1 many many empty spools HOW r your ur mothers throw into the tha waste basket boys and girls I Beg them not to do BO so any anymore anymore more as you can mako good use of ot them They will vill servo you jou for tor a D hun hundred dred different toys tos that you can Invent with your own sharp wits things that you ou get for tor love or money from th tha shops Take your collection of spools and make the toys pictured here firs t After Atter that you can very easily invent toys of ot your own design And it is such fun that you will keep the thing going for many a summer till you are grown up in jn tact fact And even then you will probably keep it up to amuse your little friends You need a u good jackknife paste pot and some black paint or black blac ink Take a spool cut a slit sUt in it fx fur r a cardboard nose triangular shaped put this spool on top of ot one or two other spools as you please and keep them firmly together by means of a wedge whittled out of ot a stick Fig 1 and Pig Fig 2 With your paint black up a curve to serve for tor a mouth or paint teeth if It you feel like it mako malto the Ule outline of or eyes and andears ears cars and paint in whatever you want by byway byway way of or whiskers and hair If It you want to represent a king make a cardboard crown if It a soldier make a cardboard sword if It a captain make a cardboard visor for tor the cap see Fig 6 and outline o a collar with your paint For an Episcopal clergyman clergy nan you can make mako the rim ot his low flat hat out of ot cardboard Fig 7 1 Whittle arms out of or and bore boreholes boreholes holes in the sides of the spool to stick them into Make Mako the hands out of chew chewIng chewIng Ing gum These rhese are only a few of many good suggestions that might be offered You do not need any more however for you will have plenty of ideas of ot your own figures of ot girls and ladles ladies for Instance Now Nowa a game Take marbles and flip at them to see sea how many you can knock down at a alick lick or make a Sort of ot bowling alley and bowl at them with marbles It ia 1 great grea t fun tun |