Overview

As the inventor of kindergarten, Friedrich Froebel designed and crafted the world's first educational toys. Known as Froebel's Gifts, this deceptively simple set of playthings, based on the principles of self-activity and creativity, changed how children think and interact with the world. By influencing Maria Montessori, Frank Lloyd Wright, Vassily Kandinsky, Albert Einstein, Paul Klee, and many more, Froebel's gifts have had an immense impact on our world's art, design, and education. In 'Making Classic Toys that Teach', this concept of hands-on learning comes full circle as Doug Stowe, a woodworker and teacher, outlines step-by-step instructions on how to build each toy-and the box to hold it-so Froebel's timeless lessons of creative and interactive thinking can be passed on to a new generation of young minds.

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Author:   Doug Stowe
Publisher:   Spring House Press
Imprint:   Spring House Press
ISBN:  

9781940611334

ISBN 10:   1940611334
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   01 April 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I: Introduction: Learning to play with toys that teach II: Gifts of Awakening *Gift 1: Balls of yarn introduce color, shape, and motion. *Gift 2: 3 geometric shapes: the sphere, the cylinder, and cube III: Gifts of Construction & Building *Gift 3: Make a simple box and the 8 blocks to go inside *Gift 4: Rectangular tiles in a box *Gift 5: A larger box with smaller cubes and triangles *Gift 5B: The larger box with half-rounds and coved blocks *Gift 6: Flat tiles and columns create a more complex version of gift 4. IV: Gifts of Design *Gift 7: Wooden Tablets *Gift 8: Sticks for Drawing *Gift 9: Steel Rings for drawing *Gift 15: Interlacing slats *Gift 16: Linking Sticks V: Going Forward: Using Froebel's Concepts to Create Life-long Learners

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Doug Stowe has been a self-employed woodworker since 1976. In addition to working is his wood shop, Stowe teaches children at the Clear Spring School a program called The Wisdom of the Hands, a course dedicated to the concept that working with one's hands is essential to learning. The author of eight books, his most recent is Beautiful Boxes, Design and Technique published by Taunton Press in September 2014. He also writes for Fine Woodworking and other woodworking magazines. He currently lives with his wife Jean on a wooded hillside overlooking the beautiful historic community of in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

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