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sunflowers, also painted with show-card color, the center one 

 showing a face painted in the brown seed circle. 



The costuming of the characters is as simple as the stage decora- 

 tion, the only one requiring much work being Uncle Sam. He, of 

 course, should have the accepted costume of red, white and blue, 

 with the high hat. 



Nurse Lady-bug is transformed by a large sheet of stiff paper, 

 cut the shape of a beetle's wings and covered with spots. This 

 is pinned to the back of her own dress. The only other adornment 

 is a twisted band of tulle or crepe-paper around the head with two 

 wired feelers in front. 



Only the heads of the vegetables show as the children either sit 

 on the grass, or on chairs covered with brown paper or canvas to 

 resemble the garden bed. For the head decorations caps can be 

 made of newspaper pinned round to fit each individual. On 

 these foundations the vegetables represented may be made in crepe 

 paper of appropriate color, leaving the front open for the child's 

 face to peep through. The beet is dark red with flapping green 

 leaves at the top ; the carrot, light orange and green ; the onion, 

 brown and green ; the potato, brown with black eyes painted on it; 

 the squash, bright orange; the bean, Nile green made on flat card 

 board foundation shaped like a lima bean. 



The farmers and farmerettes wear overalls, bloomers, smocks, 

 straw hats, sunbonnets or anything suggestive of labor in garden or 

 fields. The tools are those used around the school or home garden. 



. The "pests" costumes may be made from one piece winter 

 under garments of the small boy spotted with paint or dyed with 

 Diamond dyes, or the little suits may be made of brown cambric 

 cut on straight lines in one piece. The cabbage worm of course 

 should be green. 



The head dress, the most fascinating touch of all is the simplest 

 and cheapest. Take an ordinary paper bag, large enough to fit 

 over a boy 's head ; cut out holes for nose and eyes. Outline these 

 with black paint to add to the weirdness of the countenance. 

 Paint upper and lower sets of large teeth, Jack-o-Lantern fashion 

 for the chewer's mouths ; while the suckers have a small round hole, 

 outline the eyes, and if possible are provided with those Japanese 

 toys which curl up and unroll, when blown, like a proboscis. 



