| Looking for some craft ideas that you can easily | | | | envelope a short description of the puzzle picture. |
| make with items around your house? Here are five | | | | Match-Box Construction Set: A collection of match |
| kids craft ideas! | | | | boxes (the kind that are used for safety matches) |
| Eggshell Igloos: Eggshells can be used to make some | | | | makes a splendid toy-construction set. The boxes |
| very real-looking Eskimo houses. Use a pencil to draw | | | | may be used as separate blocks or may be joined |
| doorways on the eggshells and to indicate the blocks | | | | together by pushing half of the inside of one box |
| of ice from which real igloos are made. Paste the | | | | into the covering of a second box. Various building |
| eggshell edges to a piece of cotton so it will look as | | | | projects can be made with a match-box construction |
| though the igloos are surrounded with snow. | | | | set. |
| Jigsaw Puzzles: A series of jigsaw puzzles will make a | | | | Tissue-Paper Hat: Holiday season is a good time to |
| good present to take with you when you go to play | | | | make play hats because it is then usually possible to |
| at someone else's house. Brightly colored greeting | | | | find some large pieces of fancy wrapping paper. Try |
| cards make good puzzles, especially those printed on | | | | to find a piece of paper that is around twenty inches |
| heavy paper. Cut each greeting card into ten or | | | | long and ten inches wide. First fold the paper |
| twelve irregular shapes, then put the pieces in a | | | | crosswise and pasted down on one end. Then fold a |
| clean, white envelope. A good way to keep the | | | | triangle at the top, and after that fold the peak |
| puzzles identified is to write on the front of each | | | | down. Stickers can be used to hold the hat in place. |