Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms painted wooden apple quite rare to find

quite rare to find

he receives their letter

but I rather like the simplicity of this little one

Paper size 9" x 7 1/4"

It feels great to hold in the hand

Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms painted wooden apple quite rare to findOne of the things I read over holiday break was Norman Brosterman's Inventing Kindergarten, about Frederick Froebel and his philosophies about early learning, which lead to his creation of kindergarten and the "gifts" which were central to it. One of the things it made think about was the centrality of play in leading to understanding, and also about how things (like a wooden block) placed in relationship to other things (like a wooden sphere)