Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Home Occupations for Boys and Girls

The busy but thoughtful mother will find in the contents of the market basket many possibilities for happily employing the creative instinct of her child. We give a few suggestions which demand activity of both mind and body.

Chapters

8. CHAPTER VIII

Festivals have always held an important place in the life of home and community. The anniversary of the day of birth, or of marriage, the day of graduation, or of coming of age-...

1. CHAPTER I

The busy but thoughtful mother will find in the contents of the market basket many possibilities for happily employing the creative instinct of her child. We give a few suggesti...

12. CHAPTER XII

The kindergarten gifts proceed, as will have been observed, from the solid through other forms to the point. The objects made with these are but temporary, and the same material...

3. CHAPTER III

What is known as free-hand cutting has been for some time recognized as of genuine educational value and is a source of great pleasure to the child when once he learns his capac...

7. CHAPTER VII

In playing games children learn lessons of fair play, of mutual forbearance and patience, and of letting a playfellow "have a chance," which they learn in no other way. Apart fr...

2. CHAPTER II

Collect various pretty little stones and pebbles on river shore, coast or roadway, and classify in different ways--according to color, shape, size. This exercises the child's ob...

6. CHAPTER VI

What little girl does not love a doll? The more variety in their size and style the better pleased is she. Below are a number of suggestions for simple home-made dollies that ma...

11. CHAPTER XI

Friedrich Froebel, after observing and studying thoughtfully the play and playthings of little children, selected from among these, and arranged in logical order, a certain seri...

9. CHAPTER IX

Train the children little by little to bear certain light responsibilities in the home. Even in a home in which all the household tasks are done by trained servants let the girl...

10. CHAPTER X

Every child should be encouraged to possess his own books even in this age of public libraries. Birthdays and Christmas afford occasions when the parent can increase the little...

5. CHAPTER V

Let the child early be given charcoal or colored chalks, and later the three pigments--red, blue and yellow--wherewith to express his ideas. Allow him some choice in the medium...

4. CHAPTER IV

While busy with thread and needle, the mother may find it necessary to suggest some happy employment for the little one who asks for something to do. What do the contents of the...