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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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132 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS April, 1911
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A beehive made of crepe paper and orna- mented with flowers A rooster with a mail-bag made of crepe paper containing Easier favors A Jack Horner egg made of crepe paper and cotton batting be glued in place and the bill gilded. When the feathers are on, the eyes, made of round bits of yellow paper with ink spots in the center, may be put on. In the same way a rooster can be made for carrying mail- bags containing Easter favors. These mail-bags may be made of buckram, in the shape of an egg which has been cut lengthwise through the middle. The top should be left open, after the manner of a wall-pocket, and the out- side covered with crepe paper. A tiny chick for each guest is attached to the ends of the favor ribbons hanging from the mail-bags. The tail feathers should be made double, with a wire between the layers, so that they may be easily curved into shape. The egg Jack Horner is very easily made by covering an egg-shaped wire frame with crepe paper or cotton bat- ting. The frame is supported by four large bunnies, and chicks are attached to the ends of the favor ribbons. A discarded toy cart decorated with flowers and colored paper or ribbon is the foundation for the chariot. It is drawn by a home-made chick, and driven by a little girl doll. If the chariot is made from a large cart, it will serve as a Jack Horner Fie, and a very small cart may be used as an individual favor. An adaptation of "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe" is carried out in the shoe swarming with chicks and presided over by a distracted hen, also made of flat card- board and covered with feathers. The block shoe is easily made from buckram. The seams should be overcast to- gether and the whole covered with crepe paper. Short lad- ders made of cardboard provide a foothold for the numer- ous brood. The little carriage with its doll coachman shows another use for a child's cart. It is filled with leaves and moss and topped with flowers, and the harness is decorated in the same way. A Saturday morning sewing bee may terminate in a luncheon with a beehive centerpiece. The foundation is a frame made of thin pieces of wood nailed together, with a flat board top covered with plain crepe paper. This material, cut into strips narrow enough to look like grass, is fastened to the posts, and clusters of flowers are used for decoration. For the top of the hive use a shallow, round bandbox of a size in proportion to the base. Around the top fasten a cone of stiff paper and cover with paper rope, beginning at the bottom and winding upward, using a little paste to secure it. The rope may be made by twisting two strips of crepe paper tightly, and then twisting the two to- gether in the opposite direction. A few artificial bees on the hive will give a realistic touch. Under the hive, place a hen and her brood of chicks. The accompanying illustrations show three or four ways

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