Nature objects, model for use in play store.
Illustrate an excursion, stories, games, home activities, activities of
Indians. Use for class posters, sand table projects, or for individual
illustrations in posters.
Make and dress paper dolls for rainy day play. Faces put on by upper
grade art classes or faces cut from magazines and pasted on. Dresses
decorated by crayons or cut strips of paper.
Make designs for wall paper and linoleum for doll house; for book
covers and boxes.
Work out stencils for use in decorating covers of work books, curtains,
favors.
Make paper plates, napkins, doilies and runners for serving meals in
connection with the study of the home, or for the doll house, or a
party. Decorate.
Make animals, persons, and objects taken up in the study of the home or
in Indian life, for booklets, posters, or for sand pan.
Let children experiment with the paper or clay, then criticise each
other’s work. Teacher makes suggestions and children try again.
Cut out pictures which have definite outlines and are attractive to
children. Use for (1) making posters, (2) labeling and advertising in a
play store, (3) paste into scrap books for gifts.
Tree cutting and coloring of fruits and vegetables, or cutting of them
from seed catalogues for canned goods in grocery store. Modeling of the
same.
Toy coins made to be used in buying and selling games.
Modeling of cookies, doughnuts, and cinnamon rolls used in connection
with cooking and serving plays.
Modeling of utensils and dishes used in the cooking and serving plays
and in the study of Indian life.
Planning and designing for jute or yarn rug, by making sample patterns
first in paper.
Modeling of toys for toy store at Christmas time as dolls, animals, set
of dishes, ten pins, candles. Modeling of gifts as paper weight, tea
tile candle holder, bowl and flower holder. Press in a model of card
board to make an impression of a bird, flower. Note: (Fire, paint and
shellack these.)
Modeling of Indian bowls; decorate.
Modeling of marbles and colored beads; decorate. Recipe for Indian
Beads.--4 cups of salt; 2 cups of corn starch; 2 cups of water. Mix
the corn starch with the water. Heat the salt. Mix the corn starch and
water with the salt. Roll into beads. Put holes in with darning needle
before hard.
Draw two concentric circles of any size. Cut paper or cardboard used so
as to make a circular picture frame. Decorate or cover with raffia. Put
in any picture desired for a gift.
Make paper Christmas trees, folded, cut, and pasted so that they will
stand. Make paper toys for same.
Draw toys, Christmas trees, pictures from “The Night Before Christmas,”
and pictures resulting from activities of out of doors after the first
snow fall.
Make simple room decorations for Hallowe’en, Thanksgiving, Easter,
Christmas, as Brownies, fall leaves, pumpkins, toys.
Make and design Valentines, Easter eggs, bunnies. Mount the last ones
for Easter cards.
Cut out circus parade. Invite children from another room or the
parents. Each child tell the characteristics of a certain animal, or
about its training.
Make toys, pinwheels, balls--a number of strips of paper 1/2 × 6
inches. Fasten all together at both ends with a very fine paper
fastener. Pull out the strips to make a ball--Horse reins, nests of
boxes, wagons, Jack-in-boxes, caps, lanterns, boats.
Illustrate parts of a story by drawing or cutting. Teacher and other
members of the class guess the story chosen.
Make portfolios in which to place work, or make work books.
Cut oblongs of any suitable paper, correct size for flower pot covers.
Decorate. Fasten around flower pots.
Furnish a doll house made of cracker boxes. Children paint.