Toy Making. Members of Junior Red Cross, District of Columbia, making toys for foreign children. While many of these toys are made in manual training classes where the most complete equipment is provided, it has been found possible to make them in the regular class room. In some grades boys have even made most attractive toys from cigar boxes, a pen knife being their only tool. The designing, tracing, cutting out, assembling and painting of the toys make problems in hand work which are intensely interesting to the boys

These are members of the Manhattan Junior Red Cross, children in the ungraded classes in the P.S. 63, New York City. Part of their schooling is the making of these toys, a task in which they have become adept. Every Christmas and several times a year beside, these children sent large consignments of substantial, gaily painted toys which they have made themselves, to the immigrant children who are sick at Ellis Island, and to the children in the city tuberculosis camps

French Toys. Toys made by little French children in playgrounds and summer recreational schools of Paris operated by the Junior Red Cross. These toys were made and sent to this country as a gift from the French children to their little American benefactors. The toys are now on display in the Red Cross Museum at National Headquarters Washington, D.C. They are soon to be sent on a tour of the country

Toys made by a 17-year old Czecho-Slovakian boy out of cigar boxes. He has been paralyzed since he was four, unable to sit up in bed. He has a remarkably brilliant mind and is very skillful with his hands. In looking at these toys, one must remember that he has never actually seen the animals, but has gotten his ideas from pictures. The Junior American Red Cross has arranged for a surgical operation which it is hoped will effect a permanent cure

Toy Making. Members of Junior Red Cross, District of Columbia, making toys for foreign children. While many of these toys are made in manual training classes where the most complete equipment is provided, it has been found possible to make them in the regular class room. In some grades boys have even made most attractive toys from cigar boxes, a pen knife being their only tool. The designing, tracing, cutting out, assembling and painting of the toys make problems in hand work which are intensely interesting to the boys

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Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Hdq.
Group title: Junior Red Cross At Work, U.S.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 22

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