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Title: Play and play materials for the pre-school child
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, Harriet
Subjects: Play Children
Publisher: Ottawa, Canadian Council on Child Welfare
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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dramatization of the details ofhome life. The child imitates the ideas as well as the actsof the people he sees around him in his home. He mustrepeat the actual expression of the life he sees in hisattempt to comprehend it. There is a great deal ofimpersonation or make-believe. Now the overturnedchair becomes a carriage, delicious food can be enjoyedfrom empty plates, the child rides his hobby horse furi-ously up and down. The dramatic instinct is ex;)ressedin the simple housekeeping plays. Pla>ing ^doctor,being mother, bathing and feeding the bab\. By themethod of impersonation, that is by living through thepart of doctor or mother, the child learns to s\mpathizewith and understand the feelings of others. The smallchild pla\ing with her mother, who pretends that she is 14 the mother going to call on a neighbour will likely learnsomething about the manners called for on such anoccasion, but even more about putting herself in anothersplace—an invaluable step in her socialization.
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HOUSEKEEPING TOYS OF RELATIVE SIZE FOR THE LITTLE MOTHER. TOYS FOR THE DRAMATIC PERIOD. Toys at this period are essential, but it iswhat can be done with them or imaginedabout them that is important. They shouldbe selected to help the child reproduce the life processesthat are going on around him. He will need housekeep-ing toys, doll furniture, washing, ironing and cookingoutfits, gardening tools like fathers, telephones for carry-ing on conversations and giving grocery orders, chairs andtables and dishes for parties, dolls, wooden if possible,with clothes that can easily be taken off and put on. Asfar as possible toys should be chosen in relation to eachother. Eighteen inch dolls and twelve inch beds do notgo well together. Dolls should be strongly constructedand made to withstand frequent washings. The Schoen-hut dolls answer all these re()ui)-oments and are very 15 attmctive. These dolls are wooden with <ruaranteed steelsprin.ix joints, and will sit and stand, in a most natural

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