BOXVILLE CARDBOARD BUILDINGS HOW TO

The box rims stand if you cut them with corners. The farmyard is made from box rims cut from any shallow cardboard box you have. (See Diagram Three, B.) Let the roof dry, and then slip it over the triangular supports pasted at each end of the box building to hold the roof in place.Ĭut a little weather-vane from a strip of cardboard, if you like, and paste it to the front of the barn roof.

The roof is made from your two box covers lapped one rim under the other, lengthwise, to form a gabled roof shape. (For cutting these supports for a gabled roof, see Diagram Three, BB, page 169.) Glue one to each end of your box, at the upper part. These supports must be cut from cardboard, and each must be the width of an end of your box, and be made as high as your box is wide. Next, you will need to make the two triangular supports for the box-cover roof. The two sections cut in the cardboard make the doors. The base of your door should be at the edge of the box rim. (For double door, see Diagram Two, B, page 167.) Cut the top line and down the center line. To make this, first mark a three-inch square upon an end of your box. In one end of the barn, cut a double door. Some cardboard is needed from which to cut supports for the roof.īegin by turning your box over upon its rim so that its top becomes the base of the barn. Two shoe-box covers make its gabled roof. You will need to have a shoe-box to make the building. You may easily make a barn like the one in the picture.

BOXVILLE CARDBOARD BUILDINGS HOW TO

Material Required to Make a Barn and Farm-yard: the lower half of a large shoe-box and two shoe-box covers that fit it, a ten-inch square of card-board, and the rims cut from a shallow box.įarms are such very interesting places that I am sure you will enjoy knowing how to make one with a big barn and a farmyard where your toy animals may be kept. The fence for the Barnyard is made of a box rim.

The roof of the barn is made of two shoe-box covers.

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