Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Children's Crafts - A Clothes Peg Boat from 1949


From Hobbies Weekly, November 16th, 1949.  A British publication from a time when toys, and materials to make toys, were in short supply.  A better picture can be found at the Internet Archive
 

2 comments:

  1. That type of clothes pin is getting harder and harder to find, but that is a clever little project for a young man - or young girl, for that matter. I like the term glasspaper: it is more accurate than sandpaper but glassing it down sounds funny compared to sanding something down.

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    1. As George Bernard Shaw said, England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

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