Craft Activities for Kids

First Rate Sailing Yacht Many boys affirm that life would be robbed of its greatest joy if they had not a model yacht to sail on the nearest park lake. Without a doubt, model yacht sailing has its thrills and fascinations, and not the least interesting part of the pastime is the construction of one’s own little craft. If you …

An Easily Made Banjo As a rule it is not easy to make a musical instrument, but recently we constructed a toy banjo which many boys may care to imitate. By chance we saw an empty biscuit tin lying on the kitchen table. It was circular in shape and about 4 inches in depth. We picked it up and wondered …

The Acrobat For this toy you will want two thin strips of wood each 6 inches long, and a third 3 inches long. Ordinary I inch laths will serve, but wood a ¼ inch square in section is better. The three pieces are nailed together to form the letter H, but the horizontal strip is fixed two-thirds of the way …

Feed the Brute You and your friends can get endless fun with this easily-made toy. Obtain a piece of cardboard tubing about 5 inches in length and I ½ inches in diameter. Cut out a large circular hole in the side, as shown in the illustration. Draw a face around the hole, using the latter as a big mouth. Then …

Monograms for Ornamental Purposes There are many things that will be considerably improved in appearance by the simple addition of a monogram. The back of a hair-brush is an obvious example, the lid of a trinket box is another, and so is the cover of a blotting book. A very easy way to provide the monogram is to cut it …

Camera Stereoscopic Slides Have you ever looked through a stereoscope at a pair of pictures and noted how marvelously everything stands out in relief? As you probably know, two picture almost identically alike are needed in order to provide the stereoscopic effect. When the pictures are made by photography, two exposures are necessary, one taken with the lens in the …

Lively Scorpion All sorts of strange experiments can be made with camphor, and here is one that will cause lots of fun and amusement. Obtain a few pieces of hard camphor and exercise some kill in cutting them into small ovals and spheres. When you have a fair supply of these, bore a hole through each with the aid of …

Inverted Flame Obtain a large cardboard box, as well made as possible. Cut out a portion about 5 inches square at one end and paste over the opening a piece of tracing paper. At the opposite end of the box make a large pin hole, but see that the hole has a clear cut circumference without any frayed pieces of …

They Change Places This experiment is rather difficult to perform because its success depends on exact conditions; it is, nevertheless, well worth all the trouble you may expend on getting it accurate. Look first at the accompanying drawing. You will see two wine glasses, one inverted over the other. Naturally, this will call for two glasses of exactly similar dimensions. …

Porous Materials Practically everything is porous, but some articles are more so than others. In the case of things which are only slightly porous, it requires tremendous pressure to reveal their porosity and, for ordinary purposes, we might say they are non-porous. A piece of sheet tin, for instance, might come under the heading of non-porous bodies, but a postcard …