The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-16
Choice for
Christmas
ExtenSiUe
BY JULIA BLANsHARD,

NEW YORK, Dec. lo--FSyCIlolo-
eists assist Santa Claus this year
in lining up toys for children that
actually will help to develop them
Is we'll as please them.
= Have your toys suitable to the
age Of the child to whom you give
them, select those that can do
varied things to develop imagina-
ton. and give preference to sturdy
TOYS that will stand experimental
ton" is the succinct advice OF Mrs.
Janet NJ. Knopf, director Of THE
Playroom" and toy consultant for
several of New York's modern
schools.
"From infancy to eighteen
months, toys should develop the
sense Of sound and hearing, or be
bright colors for children to watch,
Mrs. Kopf advises. They should
be washable, cleanable, sterilizable
and should be hard or soft things
for a child to feel.
Psychological Toys Help
I'm a list of toys for children of
this age you should include plush
animals and bead dolls, yaricolored
rattles, rubber frogs OF animals that
emit noises, big plush balls and toys
that have round bottoms so baby
can push them over and they won't
roll away so mother has to come
fetch them.
Balloons that babies can kick or
push are good, and washable pic
ture books with big pictures in them
and remember children always
like pictures of other children.
1.-THE next division Of toys is for
the pre-school age, for children
from 10 months to years. Chill
dren at this age are much more
interested in toys and much more
experimental.
"Give them toys that can be taken
apart and put together again. Give
them large blocks and toys that can
be found and moved easily, for the
large muscles develop before the
small, more skilled ones.
Here's Wide Variety
From 3 to school age, give them
large toys for lifting, pulling, SHOW
ing, easy construction toys, rocking
boards, easels for crayons and paint,
blackboards, large crayons and
paper, drums, horns, trapezes, rope
ladders, roller skates, auto and air
planes that they can ride about the
floor.
Then, too, there are play fur
niture. dolls with wardrobes OF
dresses, blunt scissors with ma
terial to cut, picture chairs to fit
them and low tables they can sit up
to, play screens that make stores
or houses for their imaginative play,
games that teach reading, arith-
metic, geography and other elemen-
tary subjects, and Dr. Rainbow KITS
which have washable wooden toy
stethoscopes, thermometers, pre-
scription pads and so on.
when children get into school
and up until 10 or IL, they like ice
skates as well as roller skates, arch
ery games, picnicking outfits, all
kinds of fancy dress costumes, base
ball and basketball outfits, and ma
terials for carving.
Good, also are block printing
sets, real printing sets, real type
writer's, photograph music, chemical
outfits. sleds, reading games, games
for learning French and German,
for learning the names of birds,
geography, and other learning
games.
Stoves That Cook
During these years children grow
much larger as their smaller muscles
develop and their coordination is
perfected.
Real little sewing machines for
dolls clothes, stoves that cook, radio
sets that actually can be assembled,
stencil and paint to make real pic
lures, water colors and one of the
new patented surfaced boards that
washes off, if you want to wash it.
Dramatic toys are valued at this
age: Screens that will lend them
selves to store uses or stage are
good.
Games that let them play con-
ductor and train, with cap, Ian
tern and tickets to clip off, airplane
construction sets, boats that can be
assembled, and bicycles to ride also
are good"