(c) Dining Room Furniture 1. China Closet. Construction. Take two four inch squares folded into sixteen squares. Cut on heavy lines in diagram a and paste to form a box. In diagram b cut on heavy lines. Square marked "doors" are folded double. Paste one-half of these square inside of box, the other half forming the door. The strip of four squares at top of diagram is cut and pasted to back of box to form the board around the top. I Round Table 2. Round Table. China Closet Material. White construction paper four by eight inches. Construction. Fold short diameter and then crease into sixteen squares. At one end crease one-half inch line ab. Cut on heavy lines, forming a square and oblong. Paste the oblong lapping one-half-inch, forming a cylinder with the top spreading so as to form a base for the round top. Take the square and fold its two diameters and trim the corners until top is round. Paste this on the base formed by the spreading of cylinder. 3. Chair. Method. Use the sixteen squares from paper four inches square, cut off four squares at front, fold the right edge to the first crease, cut off the half squares at crease. Cut on solid lines. Make the back of the chair from square A, fold down the sides, front, back, and paste. Legs may be cut by cutting squares or triangulars from the four sides. (d) Kitchen Furniture. 1. Kitchen Range. A range may be made in same way as dresser by leaving squares at the top of back of range and folding down for a shelf. Cut out in suitable way to look like range. Cut a round hole in top of shelf. Insert pipe made from a piece of construction paper, made cylindrical by wrapping around a lead pencil. Put pipe through the hole. Doors, also lids, may be drawn or they may be cut out; for little children pieces of paper this size may be pasted on. 2. Kitchen Cabinet. A kitchen cabinet may be made in same way by pasting half box of this kind around the shelf, making top of cabinet. Doors may be cut in. For the table top part a wider piece of paper may be pasted on. |