Craft Activities for Kids

A Comfortable Seat for Campers Nobody expects camp-life to be as comfortable as things are at home; but we have often felt, when camping, that a nice springy seat would be a pleasant change to the hard unyielding ground. If you want to fit up a comfortable camp seat, take three stout poules. Scouts will, of course, use their poles-place …

The Realistic Snake Most people do not like snakes, though the majority of them are quite harmless, and all are scrupulously clean. If you would like to make one that nobody will object to, go out in the autumn and collect from under the oak-tress a handful of acorn cups. When you have brought them home, grade them according to …

A Feather Glider Some boys are never so happy as when they are devising gliders and flying them. A good many ingenious patterns have been thought out, and the one described here is as good as any we have seen. Take a piece of cane about eight inches long and to each end fit a cork, holding it in position …

Making A Camp Stool Camp stools are useful not only in camps but in the garden, in queues and in dozens of other places. You can make one in an afternoon, and it will not cost you much. For the job, the following strips of wood are required: 4 lengths, each 20 inches long and one inch in section. 2 …

For Camp Fires All of you who love camping will find this simple piece of apparatus of consideration use. It consists of three long strap hinges, such as can be bought cheaply in the multiple stores. Each hinge is bent outwards to form a right-angle and, then, the three tips are held together by means of a flat bolt. This …

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 …