65. Any kind of a building may be made from boxes- a model church, school, department store, museum. The inside and the outside can be as elaborate as the child wishes. The fittings will provide opportunity for great ingenuity. A miniature department store could have box counters with mirrors from old pocketbooks glued on top of them to resemble glass. In the yard goods department, scraps of cloth can be wound around small, oblong pieces of cardboard; the gay colored paper that lines greeting card envelopes can be wound around match sticks for the wallpaper department.

66. Box buildings can be mounted on a large surface, and the surface landscaped. Trees, bushes, and grass can be made from sponges, paper grass, and pipe cleaners-or whatever else the child might think of to use. If it is a city building, surround it with the proper setting, such as streets and parks. Miniature trains, cars, trucks, and boats would be great additions, as would tiny figures of people and animals. Slats from old Venetian blinds make wonderful roads, streets and railroad tracks for the model town.

67. Here's the way to have a "make-believe" garden. Use a box of any size or shape. If a shoe box is chosen, cut out one of the long sides. If a hat box is used, cut out one-quarter to one-half of the circle. Now cut out flowers or vegetables from a seed catalogue and paste them on the inside of the box. Paths and plots of grass can be made of brown or green construction paper, if the catalogue doesn't have any pictures of lawns.

68. Cover the child's bed table with white dull-finish oilcloth. Draw a map of his own neighborhood on it, and use small boxes of various sizes to represent the nearby buildings he knows. Other boxes can be trucks, buses, and cars to run on the roads or streets.

69. "People" to live in the house, work in the store, or play on the baseball field can be made of clay, clothespins, or pipe cleaners.

70. Pipe cleaners are versatile! They can be bent and shaped, singly or several of them together, to make innumerable forms.

71. Dye pipe cleaners different colors with Tintex or Rit-cold water will do for this. Dyed green or brown, bend them into shapes which will resemble trees. Cut others into shorter pieces, with a pair of sturdy scissors, and dye them in bright colors. Now you have the making of a flower garden for a model village or a doll house.

Tin Cans

72. Tin cans are almost as versatile as boxes and are safe for a child to handle if they have been opened without jagged edges. Both the cans themselves, and the tops and bottoms cut from them, can be used.

73. A set of tin cans in different sizes can be used for nested blocks or building blocks. Paint each one a bright color with heavy poster paint for eye appeal.

74. Tobacco tins are useful for building blocks, too; fasten the lids on securely with cellophane or friction tape.

75. String together several tops and bottoms of tin cans, with a hole punched in each one, keeping them about half an inch apart by knotting the string. Hung at an open window, they will make a tinkly sound in the breeze.

76. Containers for holding pencils and crayons can be made from tin cans. Covered with oilcloth or decorative paper, or painted in bright colors, they are gay as well as useful.

77. An amusing project for the child is to make a telephone with two tin cans and a piece of string or heavy thread from Mother's sewing basket, from 6 to 14 feet long. On the bottom of each can punch a small hole in the center, insert the two ends of the string through these holes, and knot the ends securely on the inside. When this has been done, and the cans are held far enough apart so that the string is kept taut, one person speaks into one can, and the sound is transmitted along the string. The other person hears the voice by holding the open end of the other can to his ear.