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Toymaking With Children
by
Freya Jaffke
Toys that Surround children during their first five years are essential tools for their awakening imaginations and creativity. Out of her long experience as a kindergarten teacher, Freya Jaffke makes many helpful suggestions for adults to select age-appropriate toys for children, as well as to make a variety of toys themselves. There are also sections on the meaning of pla...more
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Published
by Floris Books
(first published June 1987)
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I'm a sucker for natural, hand-made and unique. These ideas are along the lines of Montessori and Waldorf ideas for children's play.
Lots of great ideas for making simple toys using felt, wool, wood, hand-sewing, crochet, and knitting. I prefer toys that I can make with my kids' help, not just for them, and there are lots of options for that here. Of all the toy-making books I have read, this one offers the most variety, and I was happy to see that I could feasibly complete a large number of these projects even with my own very remedial wood-working, sewing, and crochet skills (and no knitting skills). This book offers man...more
This book has a lot of good ideas about different toys to make with cloth, wool and wood, but I wouldn't recommend it for a beginner. While there are suggested patterns (I need patterns!), the author does assume that a person knows basic sewing, knitting and woodworking skills. I'm getting some good ideas for nature table figures to make, and perhaps I'll even try a marionette with silks and wool. I'd like to get some lessons in whittling before I attempt any of the woodworking projects.
I keep coming back to this book for ideas. This helped me to not worry that we can't afford a thousand toys for our child because her imagination will do a lot better with some simple, often handmade, toys.
awesome book with lots of easy to make toys. currently i am knitting chickens
Many great projects and ideas, although the author is a wee bit preachy.
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