The Child's Rainy Day Book

It is wonderful what your head and hands can do when you begin to plan gifts for family and friends at Christmas, birthdays and the in-between times when "un-birthday presents"-...

Long, long ago when the world was young, the child who wished for a gay and pretty necklace for her little brown throat strung berries and seeds or pieces of shell and bone that...

It sometimes seems, on a rainy day, as if there was nothing to do because you have not the materials that are needed for certain occupations--but there is always paper. You may...

Have you ever noticed how, when it rains, one road will dry at once, and on another your footprints will hold the water like a cup for hours? Do you know the reason for it? The...

=Materials Required:= A flour-barrel top, 3/4 yard of yellow cheesecloth, 5 large wire nails, 3 lengths of No. 4 rattan, A bunch of red raffia, A bunch of green raffia, A bunch...

The rattan of which the baby's go-cart and mother's armchair are woven came from a far-away forest in India. Troops of monkeys may have swung upon the very pieces on which your...

All summer long the out-of-door gardens kept us busy, planting, weeding and watering. When we had had a week or two of sunshiny weather we began to wish a cloud would sail over...

Sailors' knots are of course fascinating to boys, but why should not girls enjoy making them, too? Think of the dolls' hammocks, the work bags and twine ball nets one can make,...

On stormy days the children of a family are likely to be alone--unless they are so fortunate as to have a little visitor in the house, or a friend who lives near wraps up and co...

=Materials Required:= 1/2 yard each of blue, red, yellow and green gingham, 3 quarts of small white beans, A length of No. 6 rattan, A bunch of red raffia, A tapestry needle, 3...

How shall we answer the ever recurring rainy day question, "What shall I do?" We hear it wherever children are kept indoors--from whatever cause. All of us are concerned with th...