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Title: A Catalogue of Play Equipment

Author: Jean Lee Hunt

Release Date: April 1, 2009 [EBook #28466]

Language: English

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A CATALOGUE OF PLAY EQUIPMENT

_Compiled by_

JEAN LEE HUNT

BUREAU _of_ EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTS 16 WEST 8TH STREET, NEW YORK 1918

[Illustration: Wooden wheel-barrow and cabinet.]*

[Illustration: Children at play.]*

INTRODUCTION

What are the requisites of a child's laboratory? What essentials must
we provide if we would deliberately plan an environment to promote the
developmental possibilities of play?

These questions are raised with ever-increasing insistence as the true
nature of children's play and its educational significance come to be
matters of more general knowledge and the selection of play equipment
assumes a corresponding importance in the school and at home.

To indicate some fundamental rules for the choice of furnishings and
toys and to show a variety of materials illustrating the basis of
selection has been our aim in compiling the following brief catalogue.
We do not assume the list to be complete, nor has it been the
intention to recommend any make or pattern as being indispensable or
as having an exclusive right to the field. On the contrary, it is our
chief hope that the available number and variety of such materials may
be increased to meet a corresponding increase of intelligent demand on
the part of parents and teachers for equipment having real dignity and
play value.

The materials listed were originally assembled in the Exhibit of Toys
and School Equipment shown by the