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