Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1915 — To Amuse the Children. [ARTICLE]

To Amuse the Children.

Soak a cupful of dried peas overnight. They then can be easily pierced. At the same time provide a box of wooden toothpicks. By combining the two your children will find amusement by the hour in making playthings of every description. Kindergarten cards to amuse children may be fashioned from the colored pictures found in vegetable and floral catalogues. Put a piece of heavy white paper under the colored picture and prick with a pin all around it. You will find an outline of the same thing on the white paper, and the design may be sewed from hole to hole with a bright-colored yam or embroidery cotton. A sand pile is a capital place for the youngest children to play, and it will hold their interest longer if some colored marbles, shells, pebbles, even bright bits of broken dishes, are mixed through it, on the sly, fur them to discover as they dig.