Silhouette Likenesses
June 30th, 2007 by admin
CRAFTS
This is more a game than a present, but will answer well for either; and young folks can get much fun out of an evening spent in “taking” each other.
Each in turn must stand so as to cast a sharp profile shadow on the wall, to which is previously pinned, white side out, a large sheet of paper, known as silhouette paper, black on one side and white on the other.
Somebody draws the outline of this shadow exactly with a pencil; it is then cut out and pasted neatly, black side up, on a sheet of white paper.
Good and expressive likenesses are often secured, and droll ones very often. Try it, some of you, in the long evenings ahead.
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)