Cut from trade journals and attach to walls.
=Lamp= (_Twist spool_, _toothpick_, _half egg-shell_, _wax_)
Paste a bit of paper on top and bottom of twist spool. Through this stick a toothpick, which the paper should hold firmly. Upon the top of the toothpick fasten a half egg-shell for a globe with bit of wax or glue.
=Stove= (_Cardboard_, _black ink or paint_)
Make oblong box of cardboard. Turn upside down and cut openings for top of stove. Make a small hole in the back of the stove and insert in it a piece of paper rolled into a stove-pipe and pasted. Cut openings in front for the grate and ovens, leaving a door for the latter. Ink or paint black.
=Windows= (_Thin white paper_, _oil_, _glue_)
Brush a piece of white paper over with ordinary machine oil, or olive oil, or dip it in the oil and when dry glue in for windows, telling the children that not very long ago that was the only way in which light was admitted to many houses before glass became so common.
Isinglass may also be put in for windows.
=Doll's Bedstead= (_Cigar-box_, _glue_, _gilt-headed tacks_)
Saw the _cover_ of box into two pieces, one for the head and one for the foot. Fasten in place to the box with the decorative tacks. Legs may be attached if desired.
=Curtains= (_Cheesecloth or lace_, _needle_, _thread_)
Cut small squares of cheesecloth and let the child hem and put in windows for curtains. Do not insist on very fine sewing for beginners. Curtains may be edged with lace, or the entire curtain may be made of lace, tacked or glued to inside of window.
=Telephone= (_Two spools_, _nail_, _tin mucilage top_, _string_, _small flat block_)
Take a flat piece of wood about two inches square. Glue to it the flat end of small spool. That is the 'phone. Another spool is the receiver hanging, when not in use, upon a nail driven into the wood. The mucilage top has the slot into which to drop the imaginary nickel.
=Grocery Store= (_Wooden soap-box_, _small cardboard box_, _scales_, _toy barrels_, _tiny pill boxes_, _sand_, _pebbles_, _etc._)
A small wooden box makes the store. A smaller cardboard box turned upside down will make the counter, or small pieces of wood can be nailed together by the little amateur carpenter. Buy toy scales or make some as described below. Small barrels can be obtained at toy store or little bottles and boxes can be filled with small quantities of tea and sugar, with tiny bags of pebbles for potatoes, apples, etc. Cranberries make acceptable play apples. Corn and nuts also will find places. Tacks can be hammered in on which to hang tiny brooms, and by hammering in two long nails and laying a narrow board upon them a shelf can be made for the canned vegetables. Let the children make their own brown paper bags, looking at a real one for a model.