Part 5 (1/2)

The School of Childhood (Pittsburgh) list includes the following miscellaneous articles for house and store play:

spoons various sized boxes stones pebbles buttons shells spools bells enlarged sticks of the kindergarten ribbon bolts filled with sand rice shot bottles, etc

CRAFT AND COLOR MATERIALS

Materials of this kind are a valuable part of any play equiparten and school supply houses the following are best adapted to the needs of the play laboratory:

_Modelling Materials_--Modelling clay and plasticine, far fro the same, are supplementary materials, each adapted to uses for which the other is unsuited

_Weaving Materials_--Raphia, basketry reed, colored worsteds, cotton roving, jute and macrame cord can be used for ,and construction come in sheets of different sizes Colored papers, both coated (colored on one side) and engine colored (colored on both sides) are better adapted to ”laboratory purposes” when obtainable in large sheets instead of the regulation kindergarten squares Colored tissue papers, scissors and library paste are always in demand

_Color Materials_--Crayons, water color paints, chalks (for blackboard use) are best adapted to the needs of play when supplied in a variety of colors and shades For drawing and painting coarse paper should be furnished in quantity and in sheets of differing sizes

”_If children are let alone with paper and crayons they will quickly learn to use these toys quite as effectively as they do blocks and dolls_”

[Illustration: Children playing agon]

TOYS FOR ACTIVE PLAY AND OUTDOOR TOOLS

A deserve ”honorable on Sled Horse reins ”Coaster” or ”Scooter”

Velocipede (and other adaptations of the bicycle for beginners) Football (small size association ball) Indoor baseball Rubber balls (various sizes) Bean bags Steamer quoits

As in the case of the carpenter's bench it is poor econoarden Even the best garden sets for children are so far inferior to those made for adults as to render them unsatisfactory and expensive by coht pieces in the sreater convenience The one exception to be noted is the boy's shovel supplied by the Peter Henderson co and well ulation sizes and a complete series to the same scale and of the same standard would ht is imperative and hard wear unavoidable

In addition to the garden set of shovel, rake, hoe, trowel and wheel-barrow, a sht snow shovel is an advantage

JEAN LEE HUNT

[Illustration: Small wooden toy]

[Illustration: Small wooden toy]

[Illustration: Small wooden toy]

A small permanent exhibit of the play equipment described may be seen at the Bureau of Educational Experiments, 16 West 8th Street, New York, and is occasionally loaned

SUGGESTED READING

For convenience it has see list into two parts--the first devoted to the discussion of theory, the other offering concrete suggestions

Such a division is arbitrary, of course No better exposition of theory can be found than is contained in soe and furnishi+ngs On the other hand the two books by Dr Kilpatrick, with their illu analysis of didactic estions, at least on the negative side

PART I

CHAMBERLIN, A E

”The Child: A Study in the Evolution of Man,” Scribner, 1917

Chap I, ”The Meaning of the Helplessness of Infancy”