Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1918 — SAND PILE KEEPS TOTS BUSY [ARTICLE]

SAND PILE KEEPS TOTS BUSY

Affords One of .the Greatest Amusement for Youngsters—Can Model Clay Designs. What else Is there with which little children’s hands can be kept more satlsfactorily occupied than sand? Just turn the children loose In a pile or table of sand, with a spoon, a pall, a cup or anything with which they can dig or shovel. You do not like sand In the house? If you have a suitable place for .it. it need not make any trouble. An old kitchen table turned upside down, with the legs' cut short and put on the other side, makes a good table for sand. A piece of burlap or denim placed under the table keeps the sand from being scattered over the house. With clay, a simple little cradle may be made. The child first rolls a piece into a ball, cuts It in half with a string. One of these halves forms the lotver part of the cradle. The other he cuts in two, using one piece for the top and remodeling the other Into a “ball for baby.” Birds’ nests with eggs can be made with day; also apples, oranges, cfips and saucers, and even animals may be attempted.