Other apparatus, adapted to children at different stages, is listed under each period, in this and two subsequent chapters.
For the playroom, supply an aquarium and vivarium, tools, workbench, materials for handwork.
Play Interests and Activities. Infancy to Four Years
Sensory and motor activities
Individual play
Toys
Imitation; simple, imaginative, dramatic play
Quiet games preferred to active
One to Eight Months
Simple sense plays: Seeing, hearing, touching
Play with limbs: Arms, hands, legs, toes; grasping, sucking, reaching for objects, holding, pulling, shaking, kicking
Pleasure in passive rhythmic movement of limbs, given by attendant
Play with simple toys
Apparatus: Baby pen, toys