{"product_id":"2940014561266","title":"Activities For Little Fingers: A child's natural activity should be utilized, and turned into channels which will lead to their gradual development, physical, moral, and intellectual. And the gifts and occupations become playthings in their hands.","description":"Busy mothers and teachers are constantly asking, \"What can I do with my children? They want something to do.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA child's natural activity should be utilized, and turned into channels which will lead to their gradual development, physical, moral, and intellectual. The craft work contained in this book satisfies the early craving of the child for play and the practical, and the gifts and occupations become playthings in his hands, but, unknown to him, things of educational value.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt has been found that children are most interested in an activity when it is associated with function or color; that children are interested in things in connection with people, animals, and plants, and when they can construct something in which they can feel the sense of self, as the cause of that construction, the joy of expression brings great happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConstructive craft work offers many opportunities for the development of design, and often a detail of design lends an atmosphere of greater reality to an object, especially when the object made is of miniature size and is for play-use, as a doll's table-cover, cushion, chair, hat, etc. Children feel many things in their imagination, and a little touch of reality in design furthers that imaginative thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writers have realized the necessity for keeping the cost of the articles made at a minimum, so that they can be enjoyed by all. Inside Activities For Little Fingers you will find projects for boys and girls of all ages that are inexpensive, yet fulfilling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin this eBook will be found suggestions for the teachers of little people, and the book may be the means later on in life of introducing them to much broader fields of expression through which great joy may come to them and be given to the world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSNEAK PEAK:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eActivities For Little Fingers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\" Every task, however simple, Sets the soul that does it free.\" \u003cbr\u003eFROM time immemorial man has worked with his hands, and his time and attention have been utilized in the production of things both useful and ornamental. \"Necessity\" very often was the \"mother of invention,\" and the need for food, shelter, and clothing led to the gradual development of industries, from the simple handwork to the elaborate products of the factory system of to-day.\u003cbr\u003eWhether, then, through necessity, or simply because of joy in expression through the hands, the world is to-day a rich treasurehouse stored with the wonderful products which man has created. The instinct for production is not dead, but will last as long as man, for to create is a divine and God-given instinct.\u003cbr\u003eFroebel, in his study of the child, realized that his natural activity could be utilized, and turned into channels which would lead to his gradual development, physical, moral, and intellectual. He believed in the development of head, heart, and hand. For that purpose he introduced the gifts, occupations, songs, and plays, and allowed the child to invent and create. Joy and happiness in work were the results.\u003cbr\u003eFor some time kindergarten training was a precarious feature in education, but now that this branch has been incorporated into the public-school systems and colleges, and finds a place even in university work, it seems an assured fact that children are to receive some of their early training in the kindergarten. Here their crude ideas are worked out through the materials offered, and the child improves in his ability to express himself with his hands for expression is necessary if images are to be clear. This handwork satisfies the early craving of the child for play and the practical, and the gifts and occupations become playthings in his hands, but, unknown to him, things of educational value.\u003cbr\u003eWhen the child leaves the kindergarten and passes to the grade school, too often the change is a very abrupt one. There is a lack of the old-time freedom, and an absence of the play materials. Children then begin to lose interest, and the attention is often forced rather than spontaneous, and teaching ceases to be as effective.\u003cbr\u003eAs a help in alleviating this difficulty, handwork as one of the mediums of expression has been introduced into many of the grade schools, sometimes in correlation with other subjects, but more often simply in an occupational wray. Handwork as manual training is most effective when taught in relation to the other work of the grade, so that there is unity and a harmonious development. By manual training is meant not simply work which is spontaneously interesting and keeps the child alert and active, but work which is educationally effective. This effectiveness is in the hands of the teacher, and will be worked out by her if she understands the theory back of real manual training.\u003cbr\u003eThis little book is in answer to a number of demands which have come from different parts of the country. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTO BE CONTINUED... 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