Where kindergarten materials are kept in bookstores, cards on which outlines of animals, flowers, or geometrical patterns, are drawn, are used for the pricking; and needles for the purpose come with them. Just as good a result may be had at home by tracing a pattern on stiff paper. Lay the pattern to be copied against the window-pane, and the paper over it, and draw the outlines very carefully. A coarse needle, or a large black-headed pin, is best for the pricking, which must be very closely done, the pricks almost touching one another. Very pretty lamp-shades are made in this way, in from tour to eight pieces; a flower or some other design being pricked on each piece, which is lined with colored paper, bound, and fastened at top and bottom with small bows of ribbon. For little children, the simple pricking out a house or animal is always an amusement.