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and knowing activities of the students with displaying the
work more prominently around the school.

The next section describes Froebel's gifts for educative
play. His gifts also possessed an inner connection between
the student's mind and the objects which he∕she creates or
studies .

3.2. Froebel's educative gifts

Froebel created three educative "gifts" for the
kindergarten. They are:

(1) The soft ball (a single effect caused by a single
power);

(2) The sphere (which represents every isolated simple
unity);

(3) The cube and cylinder (which represents each
continually developing manifold body).

Froebel's "gifts" can be introduced to Anglo-Indian
children in the kindergarten. The "gifts" can be used to
aid Indian language acquisition at an early age. The
"gifts" are functional toys which can and should be used to
create imaginative play areas for Anglo-Indian children.
They can be large enough for young children to create make-
believe homes, jungles or places in outer space. They can
be tiny, so that they can fit snugly into a child's hand.

The successful usage of these "gifts", which indeed they
are, depends on the imagination of the teacher and his/her
skills to encourage creative expression in language and
design. While playing with Froebel's "gifts" the children
should be encouraged to communicate in an Indian language.
The kindergarten is the important class in an Anglo-Indian
school where bilingualism should be introduced to
Anglo-Indians .

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