Play loading a boat and use the cover for a plank, inclined from the deck to the ground, up which to roll a barrel (the cylinder).
Play that the cube is a heavy piano box and show how to raise it by using a stick as a lever.
The students of a kindergarten training school made fine derrick cranes with this box of blocks, and no two were exactly alike.
Games with Second Gift Ball
1. Let children sit crossed-legged on the floor in a circle and let one child roll the ball across to another child. He in turn rolls it straight over to some other child and so on.
2. Let one child sit in the center of a circle and roll the ball to each child in turn, who rolls it back to him.
3. Let several children stand in the center of a ring and try to catch the ball as it rolls swiftly by.
4. Let children stand in center and try to avoid being touched by the ball as it rolls along.
5. Draw a circle on the floor and let the children try in turn to so roll the ball that it will stop inside of the ring.
6. Place the cube in the center of the circle. Put the cylinder on top of the cube and balance the sphere carefully upon the cylinder. Then let the children try to hit this target with another ball.