Part 3 (1/2)

Stanley smooth-plane, No 3

Bench hook

Brace and set of twist bits

Manual training rule

Steel rule

Tri square

Utility box--with assorted nails, screws, etc

Combination India oil stone

Oil can

Small hatchet

Choice of lumber must be deterely by the laboratory budget, and finally by the supply locally available Excellent results have sorocery and left-over pieces froh luood experience in manipulation, and its usematerials as we find them to the purposes we have in hand

This is the natural attack of childhood, and it should be fostered, for children can lose it and come to feel that specially prepared enuity and initiative can thus be established

On the other hand, soes of experience are best served by a supply of good regulation stock Boards of soft pine, white wood, bass wood, or cypress in thicknesses of 1/4”, 3/8”, 1/2”

and 7/8” are especially well adapted for children's work, and ”stock strips” 1/4” and 1/2” thick and 2” and 3” wide lend the toy]

[Illustration: Girl playing with dolls house]

TOYS

The proper basis of selection for toys is their efficiency as toys, that is:

They estive of play and made for play

They should be selected in relation to each other

They should be consistent with the environment of the child who is to use them

They should be constructed simply so that they may serve as models for other toys to be constructed by the children

They should suggest so besides domestic play so that the child's interest may be led to activities outside the home life

They should be durable because they are the realities of a child's world and deserve the dignity of good workmanshi+p

[Illustration: Children re-create the world as they see it with the equipment they have at hand]

[Illustration: A house of blocks]

FLOOR GAMES