A Froebel kindergarten: blocks, toys and a slide, 1937
Children build inside a ring of wooden boxes, a boy pushes a toy lorry and a train with a doll aboard, and others climb a ladder frame and slide down a board.
By a window with patterned curtains three small children kneel inside a ring of large wooden boxes and pass pieces between them. At a low table a boy in braces pushes a wooden toy lorry, then a train with a doll as its cargo, while two small children play at the next table. In a bright room with a picture on the wall, children climb a wooden ladder frame and come down a long sloping board, a boy lying flat, a small girl balancing upright with her arms out.
The room, the screen and the radiator are those of the kindergarten in the neighbouring reel; the scenes belong to one and the same institution, whose city is not established. The large hollow boxes extended Fröbel's small building gifts to a scale children could climb into.
