A Scallop-Shell Album

June 30th, 2007 by admin


Picture of a scallop shell turned into a small album

CRAFTS

Young folks who are fortunate enough to have a pair of good-sized scallop-shells (picked up, perhaps, at the sea-side during the last summer vacation), can make a very pretty little autograph album in this way:

Take a pair of well-mated scallop-shells. Clean them with brush and soap.

When dry, paint them with the white of egg to bring out the colors, and let them dry again.

Now insert between the shells a dozen or more pages of writing-paper, cut of the same shape and size as the shells, and very neatly scalloped around the edges.

Then secure the whole loosely by means of a narrow ribbon passed through two holes previously bored in the shells. Of course, holes also must be pierced in the sheets of paper to correspond with those in the shells.

     St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5,
Nov 1877-Nov 1878; No 1, Nov 1877
(Now in the Public Domain: Not copyrighted in the United States)

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