“It is true that the few forms which are seen in the Kindergarten Gifts are the geometric types that underlie all forms of creation, and therefore are most helpful in the rational organization of what to the child is the chaos of the outside world, but to Froebel this was a means to an end. This end was to lead the young heart, through thus discerning the organized nature of form, to feel that underneath all forms lay one form, that one law governed all creation, that all were but varying expressions or utterances of One Mind.”
‘The Kindergarten Building Gifts‘ by Elizabeth Harrison & Belle Woodsen
Links of Interest:
Froebel USA – The Garden Of Children Film
The Kindergarten Building Gifts
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Articles:
Crystal Engineering in Kindergarten by Bart Kahr