Paper toys and how to make them by Koch Fritz 1875-

Author:Koch, Fritz, 1875- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Paper work
Publisher: Phila., Pa., Koch paper toy company
Published: 1907-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

9- Children can practice economy while planning new forms. They may learn to so place their own designs on paper that there is little waste, and then to make of this waste other small objects.

ID. In most children there dwells a desire to keep their books and papers neat and clean, but much greater is this ambition when it comes to producing neat manual work.

Paper construction stimulates a habitual desire for exact, neat and accurate execution.

The above-named educational possibilities of construction are perhaps the most important, but they do not exhaust the subject.

IV. DIRECTIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION. General Remarks.

He, who wishes to construct an object, must have at the start a more or less perfect conception of whatever he intends to make. Perhaps it is best, if he can clearly see in his mind each part separately as well as the relation of each part to the whole. Yet, this clear foresight is to the beginner almost impossible. In working out these paper forms, for instance, the child learns first after a certain amount of practice how the parts of an object are combined.

The flat diagram is to the uninitiated a puzzle. He cannot at once explain all before the forms are cut out and bent into shape. He may even need a certain amount of assistance. This does not mean, however, that each step be explained. If the work is made too easy for the child, it will have no more attraction for him. He does not want the answer immediately after you place the puzzle in his hands. In order to prevent children from making mistakes, adults all too often deprive them of their best opportunities for growth, by taking upon themselves the performance of the task.

The school should not be a factory for producing perfect objects, but rather a place for the normal development of self-dependent individuals. Practicing the ability to solve problems stimulates the desire to overcome difficulties without help.

The child that mechanically works out these printed paper forms according to accurate directions, dictated step by step will never derive the profit from them that the child does,

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