Part 1 (1/2)
A Catalogue of Play Equipment
by Jean Lee Hunt
INTRODUCTION
What are the requisites of a child's laboratory? What essentials must we provide if ould deliberately plan an environment to promote the developmental possibilities of play?
These questions are raised with ever-increasing insistence as the true nature of children's play and its educational significance coe and the selection of play equip importance in the school and at home
To indicate sos and toys and to show a variety ofthe basis of selection has been our aiue
We do not assume the list to be complete, nor has it been the intention to reco an exclusive right to the field On the contrary, it is our chief hope that the available number and variety of suchincrease of intelligent de real dignity and play value
The inally assembled in the Exhibit of Toys and School Equipment shown by the Bureau of Educational Experi and Sument, therefore, to theto the substance of the following pages Chief ah, The Ethical Culture School, The Play School and other experimental schools described in our bulletins, numbers 3, 4 and 5
The cuts have been chosen for the raphs of the Play School, where conditions fairly approxiestions easily translatable by parents into terms of their own home environment
While this equipment is especially applicable to the needs of children four, five and six years old, most of it will be found well adapted to the interests of children as old as eight years, and soer children as well
BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTS
New York City, June, 1918
[Illustration: Children at play]
OUT-OF-DOOR FURNIshi+NGS
Out-of-door Furnishi+ngs should be of a kind to encourage creative play as well as to give exercise
Playground apparatus, therefore, in addition to providing for bigrequisites:
Intrinsic value as a toy or plaything ”The play of children on it and with it must be spontaneous”[A]
Adaptability to different kinds of play and exercise ”It ly that new forms of useit”[A]
Adaptability to individual or group use It should lend itself to solitary play or to use by several players at once