Toymaking with Children
A New Enlarged Edition
by Freya Jaffke

The toys that surround children during their first five years are essential tools for their awakening imaginations. This wonderful handbook combines practical directions on toymaking, along with invaluable information on the importance of play.

Freya Jaffke provides the reader with instructions on making a variety of simple, natural toys for your child that are engaging, multi-purpose and beautiful - including wooden boats, log trains, doll's furniture, rag dolls, puppets and soft animals.
Toymaking with Children is also an essential first guide to selcting toys for your child to play with. Out of her long experience as a kindergarten teacher, Freya Jaffke provides many helpful suggestions for selecting age-appropriate toys for young children. There are also useful chapters on the meaning of play and how to help children play.
This greatly expanded edition is an excellent handbook with plenty of practical ideas for the parents and teachers of young children.

Freya Jaffke is the author of several books, which have sold more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide.

Paperback
Floris Books
160 pages
Colour Illustrations