SAMARA EDUCATION SERIES
Spring 2001
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Use of
Building Materials
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Wright's Original Materials
Wally Rogers
Interpreter
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Materials and Occupations
Eleventh through Twentieth Gifts
The Milton Bradley Company manufactured Froebel Gifts as true to the originals, which were created in Germany starting in the 1830s.
Froebel refined his system during the 1840s and right up until the time of his death in 1852. With the help of his proteges, Froebel's Kindergarten spread across Europe, Japan, and the United States where several schools were established in Wisconsin and Massachusetts.
A descriptive list of Kinder-Garten Gifts manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company illustrates in detail the expectations the Toy Company had for Froebel's comprehensive sets of occupation materials.
Eleventh Gift
Material for perforating included heavy paper ruled like the Tenth Gift with a perforating needle
Twelfth Gift
Material for embroidering with needles and colored silks and worstered paper
Thirteen Gift
Cutting of paper using ruled sheets folded in different ways and cut with scissors
Fourteenth Gift
Material for weaving or braiding using a steel needle to pull strips of colored paper through differently colored sheets cut into strips throughout its surface, except at the margin to confine the strips in place
Fifteenth Gift
Slats for interlacing
Sixteenth Gift
A set of jointed slats with four, six, eight and sixteen joints
Seventeenth Gift
Paper strips for lacing of various colors to create different forms by bending and twisting
Eighteeth Gift
Material for paper folding using square pieces to form variously shaped objects by folding
Ninteenth Gift
Material for peas-work by sticking the peas together with pieces of wire to create geometrical figures
Twentieth Gift
Material for modeling objects using bees wax and clay.
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