. How to make Indian and other baskets . the students at Teachers College. Excite the interest of children informs of baskets in actual use, and then urge them to imitate or re-produce in minature. The result will be an interesting collection, showing market baskets, clothes baskets, grocers baskets, cotton HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 45 baskets, hampers, etc. All these are simple and need no detailed in-structions further than those already given. The children will readilyovercome the problems involved. Here adaptability to purpose, touse, can well be exemplified and important lesso
. How to make Indian and other baskets . the students at Teachers College. Excite the interest of children informs of baskets in actual use, and then urge them to imitate or re-produce in minature. The result will be an interesting collection, showing market baskets, clothes baskets, grocers baskets, cotton HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 45 baskets, hampers, etc. All these are simple and need no detailed in-structions further than those already given. The children will readilyovercome the problems involved. Here adaptability to purpose, touse, can well be exemplified and important lessons given, which willreadily suggest themselves to the teacher, such as: How each basketis used; how carried; what it is to carry; whether carried by one ortwo persona; locality used, etc. Show how environment influenceseverything and that the use of different baskets in different localitiesfor the same purpose is the result of different growths, different meth-ods of work, etc. CAXING CHAIRS.—To cane chairs is not a difficult art, yet. FIG. 45. MARKET AND OTHER of Students, Teachers College, New York. is practically useful, and has a decided value in teaching the handlingof splints. It legitimately comes under the head of mat weaving. To practice, purchase from a kindergarten suppy house a small,square frame, in which holes an inch apart are bored. Buy or makepegs to fit these holes. Cane is coarse, medium, fine, and fine fine. Itmust be soaked in water before using. Hold the frame on thelap top uppermost. Count the holes, top and bottom, and pull a pieceof fine cane up through the center bottom hole, and down throughcenter top hole, leaving an end two and one-half inchee long. Pjiipeg into both of these holes to keep cane in place. Now bring long endof cane, at bottom row, up through next hole on the right, keeping 46 HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. it flat. Peg it. Take cane now to corresponding hole on top ; continue this lacing process until righ
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