whether parlor, bed room, or kitchen. If they decide parlor, after it is properly furnished, another room may be added. This may be done until you have a house of four rooms. Teachers who have not tried this plan will be astonished at the materials brought and made by the children, the taste, suggestions for home making, and the ingenuity displayed by them. Each week some little girl may be appointed to care for the house. In what way may the furnishing and caring for this little home correlate with the formal teaching? These are some of the practical lessons a certain first grade teacher has worked out with her pupils. Out of the variety of wall paper brought in by the children, came the lessons in color and design. A color lesson used as busy work in connection with the doll house, was the following: Each child had a sheet of 6x9 drawing paper and a box of Dixon's colored crayons. The children tinted their papers a light green. Each child was then given a small conventional fleur-de-lis, which the teacher had cut out of cardboard. This was placed on the tinted paper by the child to make a simple wall paper design. From this lesson came additional lessons of whether this design was to be used for side wall, ceiling, or border pattern. With pegs and sticks children may originate designs for either wall or floor covering. drawing them on squared paper, and perhaps at another time working out these same patterns in color. With slats, children may weave shades for the little windows. The floor of the doll house gives abundant scope for lessons in color and design. As the children bring in carpet for one room the teacher may direct the children's attention to the harmony with the wall covering, the appropriateness of color to the practical use of the room. The children may decide to paint the floor, in which case it gives an impetus to the weaving of a little rug. It is not necessary to buy looms for weaving. 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