bolted to a cross bar 1-1/8"
x 2-1/2" x 10" long.

The uprights are secured with diagonal braces 1-3/8" x 3-1/2" x
3'-9" fastened together where they intersect.

[Illustration: A pretend airship.]*

A borrowed step ladder converts this gymnastic apparatus into an
airship.

[Illustration: A borrowed ladder helps the game.]*

The ladder detached from the support is an invaluable adjunct to
building and other operations.

[Illustration: The Parallel Bars.]*

THE PARALLEL BARS

The two bars are 2" x 2-1/4" X 6'-10" and are set 16-1/2" to 18-1/2"
apart. The ends are beveled and the tops rounded.

Each bar is nailed to two uprights (2" X 3" X 5'-0") set 5' apart and
extending 34" above ground. An overhang of about 6" is allowed at each
end of the bar.

[Illustration: The sand box.]*

THE SAND BOX

The sloping cover to the sand box pictured here has been found to have
many uses besides its obvious purpose of protection against stray
animals and dirt. It is a fairly good substitute for the old-time
cellar door, that most important dramatic property of a play era past
or rapidly passing.

[Illustration: Sand box with cover closed.]*

[Illustration: Box village.]*

BOX VILLAGE

The child is to be pitied who has not at some time revelled in a
packing-box house big enough to get into and furnished by his own
efforts. But a "village" of such houses offers a greatly enlarged
field of play opportunity and has been the basis of Miss Mary Rankin's
experiment on the Teachers College Playground.[B]

In addition to its more obvious possibilities for constructive and
manual development, Miss Rankin's experiment offers social features
of unusual suggestiveness, for the village provides a civic experience
fairly comprehensive and free from the artificiality that is apt to
characterize attempts to introduce civic content into school and play
procedure.

[Footnote B: See "Teachers College Playground," Bulletin No. 4, Bureau
of Educational Experiments.]

[Illustration: Of interest to carpenters.]

[Illustration: A boom in real estate.]

[Illustration: Boy playing pretend piano.]*

INDOOR EQUIPMENT

The requisites for indoor equipment are these:

A Suitable Floor--The natural place for a little child to play is
the floor and it is therefore the sine qua non of the play
laboratory.

Places to Keep Things--A maximum of convenience to facilitate habits
of order.

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