Show TRAINING THE YOUNG CHILD kindergarten idea Is to take childs destructive desires and turn them into educative play the kindergarten idea is ie to take a childs destructive desires ard turn them into educative constructive play so a child may make pictures with his otherwise dangerous scissors the scissors should be a small blunt pointed pair then furnish him with black or dark brown paper wrapping paper will suit 1 it there is nothing better and let him make silhouette pictures the cuttings from the dark paper will be mounted on white paper to show up well at help the little fingers to cut a few geometric forms a square an oblong a circle or a triangle then let the child repeat these in larger or smaller size cutting culling straight strips of the same game size or varying sizes is good work for the little artist too when this has been fairly mastered suggest combinations tor for making pictures select a subject connected with his own play as for instance his little cart A black oblong makes the body ty tv circles are the wheels and aad a narrow narro strip of black paper pasted to the rant Is the handle the childs set of garden tools may be expressed in this yay and such familiar objects as tables and chairs vai va y the occupation occasionally by cutting from light paper and pasting on to the dark dont let this paper cutting play become too ordinary keep it tor for occasions ca jons and too insist that all scraps be parked up when the play Is over |