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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

from the simple copying of individual acts. The small child who tried to poke the fire as his mother did, or shovel snow like his father, could not have invented a game so compli­cated as the one which has just been described. Nor does the primary child content himself with such mere imitations as the Beginners enjoy. Rather does he select certain acts which he has seen others per-form and make them over, combining them in differ­ent ways or introducing material of his own imagin­ing. At some time in the late Primary period the child is likely to show an interest in making collections. This characteristic does not reach its height until the Junior period and is therefore more properly considered a Junior characteristic. However; since children of eight and even as young as seven some- 64 LIFE IN THE MAKING times start making collections, and since it is also possible to make good use in the schoolroom of this fondness for collecting, it will be well to watch for it at this time. But just playing does not by any means include the

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