Toymaking With Children,9780863153679

Toymaking With Children

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780863153679
ISBN10: 0863153674
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-02-01
Publisher(s): Floris Books
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Summary

The toys surrounding a child during the first five years of life are of great importance. They awaken the imagination and stimulate creativity. Out of her long experience as a kindergarten teacher Freya Jaffke makes numerous suggestions for making a wide variety of toys, including ideas for making wooden boats, log trains, doll’s furniture, rag dolls, puppets and soft animals.This greatly expanded edition is an excellent handbook with plenty of ideas for the parents of young children.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7(9)
The Nature of Play
9(4)
Play: a serious activity
11(1)
Play and work
11(2)
Stages of Play
13(4)
Birth to the third year
13(1)
The third to the fifth year
14(1)
The fifth to seventh year
15(2)
How can we Help Children Play?
17(2)
The Environment and Children
19(1)
Which Toys for which Ages?
20(10)
The first year
20(2)
Toys for the first year
22(4)
Cradle doll
22(2)
Wooden doll
24(1)
Felt ball
24(1)
Embroidered ball
25(1)
Other toys for up to 3
26(1)
Up to the third year
26(1)
The third to the fifth year
27(1)
Toys for 3--5
27(1)
The fifth to seventh year
28(1)
Overview
29(1)
Play and Clean-up Time
30(2)
Building on a Large Scale
32(9)
Wooden playstands
33(1)
Playstand cloths
34(1)
Play cloths
34(2)
Small cloths
36(1)
Little sandbags
36(1)
Crown headbands
37(1)
Cords
38(1)
Play pillows
39(2)
Building on the Floor or on Tables
41(20)
Building logs
43(1)
Bridges
43(1)
Trains made of bark-covered logs
44(1)
Bark boats
45(1)
Pine cone birds
46(1)
Carved wooden figures
46(2)
Gnomes
48(1)
Standing dolls
49(12)
Doll with woolen head (No. 1)
49(2)
Doll with head made from cotton knit
51(1)
Doll with body made of felt (No. 3)
51(1)
Felt-clothed doll (No. 4)
52(1)
Standing dolls made from magic wool
53(1)
Stage for a play with standing dolls
54(2)
A shepherd
56(1)
Sheep made from sheepskin
56(2)
Sheep from carded wool
58(1)
Pipe-cleaner sheep
58(3)
The Doll Corner
61(32)
The doll: one of the most important toys
62(2)
Knotted dolls and animals
64(3)
Knotted dolls
65(1)
Knotted animals
65(1)
'Little people'
65(2)
Simple unformed baby doll
67(2)
Formed doll
69(24)
The head
70(2)
The face
72(1)
The hair
73(3)
The neck cylinder
76(1)
The body
76(3)
Flopsy doll
79(3)
Cleaning the doll
82(1)
Knitted doll
82(2)
Winged apron
84(1)
Doll's cloths and shawls
85(1)
A simple doll's dress
86(1)
Doll's bunting bed
86(2)
Doll's hammock
88(2)
Simple cloth hammock
90(1)
Carved wooden spoons
91(1)
Carved bowls and plates
92(1)
The Play Store
93(3)
Goods for the play store
94(1)
Cleaning fruit stones
94(1)
Carved wooden scoops
95(1)
Dollhouse
96(9)
Bigger dollhouse
98(1)
Furniture for the doll's house
98(2)
Dolls for the dollhouse
100(5)
Standing dolls
101(1)
Dolls with legs
101(3)
Larger dolls
104(1)
Covered doll
104(1)
Knitted doll
104(1)
The Farmyard
105(17)
Carved wooden animals
107(2)
Ducks and hens
107(1)
Animals from joined branches
107(1)
Cows
107(1)
Sheep
108(1)
Horse and wagon
108(1)
Knitted animals
109(13)
Sheep
111(1)
Horse
112(2)
Donkey
114(2)
Hens and roosters
116(1)
Cat
117(1)
Pigs
118(1)
Piglets
119(1)
Ducks
120(2)
String Puppets or Marionettes
122(13)
Simple silk marionettes
122(6)
The stage
128(1)
Marionettes for children
129(3)
Keeping the marionettes
132(1)
Hooks
133(2)
Making Pictures with Magic Wool
135(1)
Other Toys
136(5)
Tumbling Man
136(2)
Pop-up puppet
138(3)
Outdoor Play
141(10)
Logs and boards
144(2)
Stilts
146(2)
Horse harness
148(1)
Wooden hoops
149(1)
Skipping
150(1)
Appendix
151(4)
Cleaning and care of wooden toys
151(1)
Working with unspun wool
152(1)
Further reading
153(2)
Index 155

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