Handcrafts: Great range; development of skill and workmanship
Coördination of muscular action with sense judgments
Mechanics, electricity, chemistry; mechanical puzzles (interest culminates at 11 years)
Toy interest decreasing toward end of period
Doll interest with girls reaches climax at 11 years; ceases with boys at 8 years.
Beginning interest in making livelihood.
CHAPTER XIII
PLAY
“Play is the highest phase of child-development—of human development at this period (childhood); for it is self-active representation of the inner, from inner necessity and impulse.”
“The plays of childhood are the germinal leaves of all later life; for the whole man is developed and shown in these.”