Show V V handicraft FOR BOYS AND GIRLS bys 5 A NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS A VV V by JL A neely acely hall BACKYARD CAMP STOVES the place for a boy to learn th tha building of camp campfires fires and camp cooking is at home and the back yard Is us as good 9 a location as any for the homemade camp stove the fireplace in fig 1 Is started b inclosing nc losing a space about IS 18 laches inches in diameter except on one side with tomato cans or cans of that size filled with earth for the fire pot fig 2 4 bank earth around and over them as shown in fig 1 then to provide tor for hanging cooking utensils over the fire drive a threefoot three foot stick into the ground each side of 0 the fireplace and can hect nails in the tops of 0 the sticks with wire pots are to be suspended from this wire by means of 0 pothooks pot hooks books bent out of 0 wire fig 3 fig 4 shows chous a camp stove with sides built of earth re enforced with un tin cans the walls are straight instead of round and they are placed about four inches apart at one end and ten inches apart at the other it ts is best to provide cross wires to support the utensils on bend these an at the ends as id fig 5 to extend down leto the cans fig 6 shows how bow a similar stave can be made by omitting the cans and fastening the cross wire supports to nails driven into the tops of stakes placed along each side of the stove rill fill in around and between the stakes to the height of their tops to protect them from fire and bank up the earth to enclose one end as in fig 4 the bake oven in fig 7 la Is a unique homemade stove which Is easily constructed ted the oven shelf bhelt Is made of theet sheet iron tor for which the open sides of tomato cans calls may be used tack the ends of three pieces of cans to I 1 k IMP A B two sticks B fig 9 to lo hold them to gether then at the erds edds ot of sticks I 1 B fasten the legs A fig 8 so the shelf will come ten incites inches below their tos toa to a s thebe leg lee sticks need not be over two feet acet long the top of the oven is covered with a wooden platform made ot of short boards nailed to two sticks C mg fig 10 fasten this platform to the tops of 0 legs lees A with the oven framework up the next thing to do Is to bank up earth around the two sides and one end and over the top as shown j 3 fig 7 dampen the earth so it will pack easily one end of the oven must tie be enclosed with earth the other provided with a board hinged to the platform by meaux of leather or heavy stape figs 7 and 11 II OUTDOOR FISHPOND FISH PO POND AND OTHER JOLLY GAMES you can play fishpond fish flah pond in the backyard where hero the side sidewalk alk can bo be the make believe pier irom from which to fish and homemade dummy fish can be scattered about in the te grass to stock the make believe pond fig 1 first prepare a large enough supply of 0 fish to made a worthwhile catch fig 2 shows an idea tor for a queer though easily made variety this tellow fellow has a spool body and a cardboard bead and tail cut the head by the pattern of 0 fig 3 and the tall tail by fig 4 punch a hole through the head and tic a loop of string through it as shown in mg fig 3 then mark eyes and a mouth on the head you can make different varieties ot of as IL av 4 e ew D alt fish by using all sorts of shapes an and sizes of 0 spools and by varying the form ot of the head bead and tail after making the fish mark each with a number fig 2 then make poles out ot of long sticks with string fastened to one end tor for a line and a bent hairpin tied to the end of the string tor for a hook book fig 5 with a fishing poe tor for each player it Is not necessary to take turns fishing the object of the game of 0 ca course urse Is to see who can make the largest score by hooking the fishhook fish hook book through the loops upon the fish heads beads beanbag bean bag and ball tossing are always lots ot of fun the skill of the players can be determined best by using 2 5 a target to throw at and three boxes nested that Is placed one inside another as shown in fig 6 makes an excellent target A bag or ball thrown inside of the center box counts 25 points one thrown in the next larger box counts 15 points and one in the outside box five points probably you will not find three boxes of the proportions shown in fig 6 but this will not matter the swinging target shown in fig 7 requires greater skill in throwing than the stationary target it if there are but two tuo players they mist take turns throwing and swinging the target the target is a barrel hoop suspended from a tree branch by means of 0 strong L 16 wrapping cord ana it Is swung by gwng a cord tied to the side of the possibly you know how low to make bake beanbags bean bags bage but inasmuch as a few of you may not dot know I 1 have shown in figs 8 and 9 how two squares of cloth should first be sewed together along three edges chen turned inside out the bag filled with beans and the edges 0 of the fourth side turned la in and sewed |