Chapter I: Front Matter

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The Child's Rainy Day Book

_Other Books by Mary White_

HOW TO MAKE POTTERY
HOW TO DO BEADWORK
HOW TO MAKE BASKETS
MORE BASKETS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM

THE CHILD'S
RAINY DAY BOOK

BY
MARY WHITE

ILLUSTRATED BY
THE AUTHOR

NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1905

Copyright, 1905, by
Doubleday, Page & Company

Published, October, 1905

_All rights reserved,
including that of translation into foreign languages
including the Scandinavian._

TO MY SISTER
Anna White Sherman
AND HER CHILDREN
Roger, Herbert, Elizabeth, Rosamond and Anna

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A FOREWORD TO MOTHERS 1

II. SIMPLE HOME-MADE TOYS AND GAMES 5

III. BASKET WEAVING 35

IV. KNOTS WITH RAFFIA AND CORD 53

V. WHAT A CHILD CAN DO WITH BEADS 73

VI. CLAY WORKING 103

VII. INDOOR GARDENING 125

VIII. GIFTS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM 143

IX. PAPER FLOWERS AND TOYS 173

X. GAMES FOR TWO OR THREE TO PLAY 201

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Building a Piece of Pottery with Coils of Clay--as
the Indians do _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Playing the Bean Bag Game 8

Planning a Book House 12

Basket Weaving 42

Knots with Raffia and Cord:

1. The beginning of a ping pong net. 2. A Turk's-head
knot. 3. Raffia work bag. 4. Doll's hammock.
5. A rattan napkin ring 68

A Little Garden for a Little Girl 136

Making a Chrysanthemum 198

A Ball-and-Fan Race 208

LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE PAGE

1 9

Rattan Ring 9

2 14

3 15

4 17

5 19

6 20

7 21

8 22

9 23

10 24

11 26

12 A 29

12 B 29

12 C 30

13 30

14 31

15 38

16 39

17 40

18 41

19 43

20 49

21 55

22 56

23 58

24 59

25 60

26 6l

27 62

28 62

29 63

30 63

31 64

32 65

33 66

34 67

35 67

36 68

37 70

38 70

38 A 79

39 80

40 81

41 82

42 84

43 87

44 90

45 91

46 91

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48 92

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55 99

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57 107

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63 112

64 116

65 117

66 119

67 132

68 135

69 138

70 148

71 148

72 149

73 151

74 151

75 156

76 158

77 160

78 162

79 163

Leather Tag Case 166

80 169

81 171

82 171

83 175

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90 185

91 187

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100 195

101 195

102 198

103 206

104 213

A Foreword to Mothers

CHILD'S RAINY DAY BOOK