FUN WITH PAPER—MAKE A SOLDIER’S HAT

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 17

FUN WITH PAPER —MAKE A SOLDIER’S HAT

Paper folding is an amusing and interesting pastime, and as "The Dominion” is always at hand you will never be at a loss for some paper with wh to amuse yourself, and your fun will cost you nothing. You may have already learned to make a few paper models, but in case you havent well start at the very beginning this week, and if you keep this portion of the paper you will be able g to follow the directions for making more intricate models, toys, and puzzles, which will be given from time to time. The soldier’s hat Is the easiest paper toy to make, and If several are made, and. your friends invited in afterwards, you can have any amount of run drilling the “regiment.” ... To begin with, take a sheet of newspaper and fold It in half, as shown in Fig. 1. Turn down the top corners A. A, of Fig. 1 along the dotted lines, to the centre B, and fold up the bottom strip C, about two inches. Turn the paper over and repeat the bottom fold on th'e other side, thus forming Fjg. 2. Now place both thumbs inside the bottom opening, pull the paper open, and refold it so that the dotted line of Fig. 2 is on the outside, the edges A B forming the centre line on either side, this folding will give Fig. 3. Finally told Fig. 3 along, the dotted line, bringing A to B, and the cap is complete as Fig. 4. And now. having made the hat, it is necessary to provide arms for the fray. A simple one can easily be made from paper by tearing a strip about 6 inches, wide off a double sheet of newspaper and rolling it up fairly loosely, similarly .to Fig. 5. The end can be secured with a piece of gummed paper, or with a short strip of. ordinary paper well covered'with paste on the back. ■Then pull this roll out from the centre to the fullest extent of the roll, when it will be found that a good substitute for a sword has been made, as Fig, C. Although not adapted for protective or aggressive purposes, it will at least serve its purpose as an article of drill. ,