Material: For bow, a branch from a tree, 30 inches long, 1/4 inch thick; a yard of strong string. For arrow, a branch 14 inches long and 1/4 inch thick; a piece of strawboard; five small nails, a ruler and a knife.

Notch the two ends of the 30-inch branch, and from one notch to the other tie the string, tight enough to bend the branch into a bow. (Fig. 4.)

Take a strawboard rectangle 1 1/4 in. x 2 1/4 in. Half an inch from the upper right-hand corner, on the short edge, make a dot. Drop a half-inch line from this dot.

Fig.1

Fig 2.

Fig 3.

Three-quarters of an inch from the upper right-hand corner, on the long edge, make a dot.

Join this dot to the end of the half-inch line, (a, Fig. 2.)

Bisect the lower short edge of the rectangle.

Connect this dot with the dot on the right-hand edge, (b, Fig. 2.)

Follow these directions on the left-hand side of the rectangle. Cut out the arrowhead. (Shaded part, Fig. 2, should be cut away.)

Split one end of the 14-inch branch.

Push the arrowhead into the slit, and nail, (x, Fig. 1.)

Take another rectangle, 1 1/4 in. x 3 in.

Bisect the lower edge, as in Fig. 3.

Five-eighths of an inch from the lower right-hand corner, on the long edge, make a dot.

Connect this dot with the bisecting dot on the lower edge. (s, Fig. 3.)

Bisect the upper short edge, and from the dot drop a 5/8-inch line.

Connect the end of this line with the upper right-hand corner of the rectangle. (/, Fig. 3.)

Follow these directions for the left-hand side, and cut out.

(Fig.3)

Split the other end of the 14-inch branch for 3 1/2 inches. Insert Fig. 3 into the slit, and nail. (Fig. 1.)