Excerpt from One Hundred Devices for Busy Work

1. Make lists of names of objects in the room beginning with a certain letter.

2. Lists of words containing a given sound.

3. Names of trades and occupations.

4. Names of seasons, with simple characteristics of each.

5. Write stories from pictures.

6. List of names of flowers or other natural objects of a certain color.

7. Observations on flowers, plants or animals written and comparisons made.

8. A quart of common shoe pegs may be bought for a few cents, and these may be used in many ways, for example (a), Give a handful to each of the children and let them place them so as to form the Roman numerals.

9. When the children have learned to make the Roman numerals correctly give each child a box of cards on which are the figures l, 2, 3, 4, etc., and require them to place each of these in its proper place beside the numeral. Copy the entire work on slates.

10. Supply the child with pegs for making numerals and boxes containing separate cards on which are figures, words, and pictures of objects, up to 10 or 20. The pictures may be anything, as balls. Suppose the child takes up a card on which are ten balls. He must find the card that has the figure 10 on it and the card on which is the word ten, and must make the Roman numeral with his pegs.

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