Paradise of Childhood. Edward Wiebe. 17-19.
Kindergarten Guide. Kraus-Boelte. 47-81.
Froebel and Education by Self-Activity. H. Courthope Bowen. 141, 142.
Kindergarten Toys. H. Hoffmann. 27-30.
FROEBEL'S FIFTH GIFT
"The material for making forms increases by degrees, progressing according to law, as Nature prescribes. The simple wild rose existed before the double one was formed by careful culture. Children are too often overwhelmed with quantity and variety of material that makes formation impossible to them."
"The demand of the new gift, therefore, is that the oblique line, hitherto only transiently indicated, shall become an abiding feature of its material."
"In the forms made with the fifth gift there rules a living spirit of unity. Even members and directions which are apparently isolated are discovered to be related by significant connecting members and links, and the whole shows itself in all its parts as one and living,—therefore, also, as a life-rousing, life-nurturing, and life-developing totality."