The School of Childhood (Pittsburgh) list includes the following miscellaneous articles for house and store play:
spoons
various sized boxes
stones
pebbles
buttons
shells
spools
bells
enlarged sticks of the kindergarten
ribbon bolts filled with sand
rice
shot
bottles, etc.
CRAFT AND COLOR MATERIALS
Materials of this kind are a valuable part of any play equipment. Of the large assortment carried by kindergarten and school supply houses the following are best adapted to the needs of the play laboratory:
Modelling Materials--Modelling clay and plasticine, far from being the same, are supplementary materials, each adapted to uses for which the other is unsuited.
Weaving Materials--Raphia, basketry reed, colored worsteds, cotton roving, jute and macramé cord can be used for many purposes.
Material for Paper Work--Heavy oak tag, manila, and bogus papers for cutting and construction come in sheets of different sizes. Colored papers, both coated (colored on one side) and engine colored (colored on both sides) are better adapted to "laboratory purposes" when obtainable in large sheets instead of the regulation kindergarten squares. Colored tissue papers, scissors and library paste are always in demand.
Color Materials--Crayons, water color paints, chalks (for blackboard use) are best adapted to the needs of play when supplied in a variety of colors and shades. For drawing and painting coarse paper should be furnished in quantity and in sheets of differing sizes.
"If children are let alone with paper and crayons they will quickly learn to use these toys quite as effectively as they do blocks and dolls."