This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... PAPER FOLDING Materials: Squares, triangles, and circles (usually four inches in diameter) of engine-colored, glazed, and coated papers, dyed in all colors, shades, and tints. Oblongs and hexagons are also sometimes used. Paper has long been so cheap and abundant a Paper Fold- fabric that for many ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... PAPER FOLDING Materials: Squares, triangles, and circles (usually four inches in diameter) of engine-colored, glazed, and coated papers, dyed in all colors, shades, and tints. Oblongs and hexagons are also sometimes used. Paper has long been so cheap and abundant a Paper Fold- fabric that for many years mothers have Modema used itto delight their children. In the occupation. firelit winter evenings, before the days of the useful (and ugly) match, our grandmothers folded dainty lamplighters, under the watchful eyes of an admiring little group, and when the pretty work was over, marvelous paper boats and boxes and windmills were fashioned for the expectant audience. Many times in the quiet home-life of the German peasant, Froebel with that all-inclusive gaze of his saw parents and children united in this simple art, and noticed the unfailing delight which it evoked, and since his desire was, as he says, to attain the universal elements of proper work for childhood, he gathered this flower also to twine into the garland of kindergarten occupations. Cheap and simple are the materials which these employ, and yet so "frugal is the chariot that bears the human soul" that a mere valueless bit of folded paper may prove a "prancing courser" to bear us " lands away." "There are indeed great ways of borrowing," as Emerson says, and when Froebel took his means of occupation from the home-life of the common people, he proved himself one of those geniuses that "borrow nobly." In Folding we again make use of the material which forms the basis of most of our Materials of kindergarten occupations, and the only Foldmlimit to the talks and poems and stories on the subject will be the time at our disposal and the interest of the children. For the...
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