. Seat work and industrial occupations; a practical course for primary grades . should be a general discussion with the children con-cerning this subject; they should be encouraged to look aboutthem. How are the walls at home treated ? How those of theprettiest house they have ever seen? Kitchen walls, they will decide, are generally painted, or leftin the natural way, the same being true in general as to thebath room. Ask the children to bring samples of paper from home, tovisit paper stores, and to learn all they can about them make simple designs on paper ruled on one-inchstrip
. Seat work and industrial occupations; a practical course for primary grades . should be a general discussion with the children con-cerning this subject; they should be encouraged to look aboutthem. How are the walls at home treated ? How those of theprettiest house they have ever seen? Kitchen walls, they will decide, are generally painted, or leftin the natural way, the same being true in general as to thebath room. Ask the children to bring samples of paper from home, tovisit paper stores, and to learn all they can about them make simple designs on paper ruled on one-inchstrips (or folded strips) or on the checks. Let us say that theseat work for the morning or afternoon may be entirely givento designing paper for the playhouse. After samples havebeen brought, andchildren have gainedthe idea that theycan design, consid-erable work in de-signing having beendone before on theblackboard, theywill delight in work-ing at it. The following willsuggest what maybe expected: Paper for bath room and hall, bedroom, diningroom, or living room. (Figs. 76-79.). Fig. 76. —Bath Room Paper. 1*£ 100 SEAT WORK AND INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS Fig. 77. —Hall Paper. Remember that these samples are only suggestions. Thechildren should not be told what to do; they will be able to ^ give many simple designs. Let themuse paints or col-ored pencils to markthe paper. As was said, a halfday may be givento this work. Givethe children four to , eight pieces of draw-ing paper (a half orquarter sheet), andsay: We will be paper makers this morning. You may de-sign the paper youwould like for thewalls of our play-house. (Of coursechildren have beenhelped before, andhave worked too ontablet paper and onthe board.) When it is time for a reading class, this work is put away, or left on desk until the children return to their seats. This seat work that may be continued through a half day or • * 1 1 1 J % ? i1 «t f• ? . ? J1 f1 ff <1 ft 1t fi I1 | 1 1 f * 4 | Fig. 78.— Bedroom P
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