e cents a pound.
Artists' clay costs five cents a pound. A cheaper kind can be obtained
of manufacturers of sewer pipes. The teacher will find suggestions
regarding the use of clay in Frye's _Child and Nature_, pp. 36-8;
Kellogg's _Forty Lessons in Clay Modeling_; Prang's _Art Instruction in
Primary Schools_, First Year, pp. 27-39, Second Year, 32-43; and in Kate
Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith's _Froebel's Occupations_, pp. 32-43.
Excellent articles illustrated by the work of children appear in _The
University Elementary Record_, which is published by the University of
Chicago Press, Chicago.

_Basketry._ The materials of which baskets are made are less pliable
than clay or sand, yet the child of seven is able to manipulate some of
them. Where possible he should be encouraged to exploit his environment
in the search for raw materials that are adapted to this purpose.
In many localities tough grasses, willows, rushes, or other pliable
materials are present, and even though the child finds little that is
adapted to the purpose, the mere search for materials enables him to
appreciate the value of the commercially prepared ones and aids him in
picturing these materials in their raw state. The pleasant days of
autumn should be used for collecting such supplies as are available at
that time. These may be prepared for use and stored until they may be
needed later in the year. If the child makes a ball of braided grass he
will find many ways of using it later in making baskets, mats, cradles,
sandals, or anything which he may choose to make of it.

Where natural materials cannot be obtained, commercially prepared ones
may be substituted. Raffia, uncolored or colored with vegetable dyes,
rattan reeds, and splints may be obtained wherever kindergarten supplies
are kept, as well as in large seed stores and in most of the department
stores in large cities. Of the many books that are appearing upon the
subject probably none is more suggestive with reference to the
significance of the art than George Wharton James's _Indian Basketry_,
and none more helpful with reference to mastering the processes than
Mary White's _How to Make Baskets_.

_Drawing and Painting._ Since these arts were originally derived from
gesture language, it is not strange that gesture and pantomime are the
best means of preparing the child for these modes of communication. The
child who has difficulty in expressing his image by means of drawing and
painting