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Identifier: seatworkindustri00gilm (find matches)
Title: Seat work and industrial occupations; a practical course for primary grades
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Gilman, Mary Louise Williams, Elizabeth Baille, 1846- joint author
Subjects: Creative activities and seat work Paper work
Publisher: New York, Macmillan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s say,in the beginning, it is a wooden box about 30 inches long, 20inches high, and 10 inches across. (Fig. 75.) The janitor, or some one of the older children, will gladlydivide it into rooms ; three downstairs and two upstairs, witha space 6 inches wide between them for the hall and bathroom. The children will decide that the three rooms downstairsare kitchen (about 8 inches by 8 inches), dining room (10inches by 8 inches), living room (12 inches by 12 inches).If desired, stairs may go up from the dining room into themiddle space, designed for the upper hall and bath room. All that the child has learned in the preceding mechanicalplans for making things is of practical use to him now infurnishing his house. Boys as well as girls will enjoy this. The manner of furnishing should be suited to the ability ofthe children. Very young children will probably best furnishthe playhouse by means of the paper-folded furniture and strip-woven mats. Older children may furnish it by the check-work
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Fig. 75. —The Playhouse and Doll Family.95 96 SEAT WORK AND INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS plan. Still more mature children may use such material asraffia and wood for furniture and yarn or raffia for mats. The teacher selects for her children the plan of furnishingbest suited to them; that is, the whole house may be furnishedwith the paper-folding, or the check-work furniture, or furnituremade by definite measurements, or wood and raffia furniture, orby a combination of all. Perhaps before any furnishing is done, the walls of all therooms are considered, or this may be done in connection withthe furniture making ; and thus, as the days go on, the childrenare designers of paper, paper makers and paper hangers, alsofurniture makers and carpenters. At all times the teacher enters into the spirit of this playlife, and thus the children are, through play, living a real life,and, at the same time, are gaining information, using judgment,and learning to use the essential tools of life; namely, th

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