Material: Cardboard 5 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in.; needle and coarse thread; scissors and patterns like Fig. 1 and Fig. 3.

Place the canoe pattern (Fig. 1) on the cardboard.

Mark, and cut out.

With the point of one blade of the scissors crease a line down the center of the cardboard. (Line a, Fig. 1.)

Fig 3

Bend, and sew the two short ends together.

When the canoe is finished, press the ends very gently toward the center. This makes the opening a better shape.

Seats made of strips of cardboard may be pasted in. (Fig. 2.)

Give each child a pattern (Fig. 3) by which to cut out two paddles.

Note. The Indians used the following material in making canoes: Birch-bark for the cover; cedar for the frame; the fibrous roots of the larch tree for sewing together; the gum of the fir tree to smear the seams, and hedgehog quills to trim.

If birch-bark, twigs and pitch from the pine tree can be secured, this lesson may be made more realistic. Even the cardboard canoe may be trimmed with beads.

If desired, a framework of two pieces of rattan or thin twigs may be made first, and the cardboard sewed to this at the upper edge.