Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1917 — Play That Helps. [ARTICLE]

Play That Helps.

Play that leads the children to use their own ideas and perhaps HISO to make their own toys is infinitely to he preferred to amusements that offer no stimulation to their Imaginations In a family where word games were liked the mother saved all the newspapers that had large black letters and let the children cut the letters out neatly. An envelope was labeled for each letter, and all the “A’s” -put in one, all the “B’s” in another, and so on. Then squares of cardboard were cut out and the letters tfere pasted on. Material for a game was economically supplied thus, and extra occupation for the children, too. Another time some paraffin was given to them to mold. It was first gut in the oven until in a workable condition. Beginning with marbles and blocks, the children soon attempted more ambitious modeling, to their own pleasure and advantage.