Mother Nature's Toy-Shop

Can Do

oing on in the world. While you think it is still winter there is a stirring going on under the blankets of brown earth, and sometimes before t

o dig into. But they do it. Not all at once with a great, blustering rush, but gently, steadily, and quietly they push and keep on p

o carry home and put into little glass bowls to be "Oh'd" over and wondered at, to be admired and loved becau

sturdier flowers and with many of these you can do all sorts of entertaining things. You don't have to look very far for them either. They

strong stems they will reach up to your waist-that is, if you are a little girl. If you are bigger they will come w

sy

to wear yourself jus

n the wreath

e stem of B und

and let them drink a little before using them; and if they have wilted while you carried them, the water will bring them u

ound and in front

position like the one marked A in Fig. 1, then with your right hand hold another daisy upri

stem of B rest

ront of its own upright part like Fig. 3. Turn it all the way around the upright part and let the stem of B rest on top of the stem of A. Fig. 4 shows this,

her daisy, C, on t

h daisy will have to cross three stems, A, B, and C. The fifth daisy-stem will cross four stems, but after that the end of the daisy-stem A will probably have been passed and you will be weaving on the others. I

way to make

rate and leave wider spaces. When you have woven enough daisies to make your crown the proper size to fit your head, cut the last stems off about two inches from the last flowe