Title: With Scissors and Paste
Author: Leila
M. Wilhelm
Date: 1927,
1948
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: none
Length: 117
pages
Illustrations:
many diagrams
Quote: “You
may cut a pattern, or draw it, or tear. it. But do not make it too small.”
This advice
comes form the first pattern, which is for a stand-up cardboard Christmas tree.
Other things primary school readers can learn to make from directions in this
book are “window pictures,” place cards, scrapbooks, dollhouses and furniture,
an oldfashioned “Fifth Avenue bus,” animals and a circus wagon, a Noah’s Ark, a
diorama, a toy village, toy cars and trains, and an “express cart.”
They will,
of course, have a quaint, almost antique look about them. They can be made
using currently available supplies. The trademark “Tempo paints” were nontoxic,
non-staining tempera paints, suitable for use on cardboard, wood, or paper.
Similar products are available in craft stores.
Instructions
are given for making the projects from paper and cardboard. The “express cart”
is problematic. It’s big enough for toys or a small child to ride in, but won’t
give much satisfaction unless adults make it in wood.
This was an
unusually well built book. The copy I
resold showed its age more in its quaint illustrations, little boys in
knickerbockers and Fifth Avenue pedestrians in hats and long skirts, than in
any other way. The thick smooth semi-glossy paper lay flat and had resisted
mildew, and the sturdy cloth binding held up through years of library use.
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