The ball until today is of great significance in every playing age (also for adults).

For Fröbel the ball was the first toy of the child, it was the first gift.

The ball was soft-packed and it was manufactured in the colors red, blue, green, yellow, purple, and orange.

­"The third gift consists of eight cubes. Fröbel divided a bigger cube by cuts. The "cube, which was divided once into all directions" - it was the third gift - was tested by him in an especially intense manner, in cooperation wit­h the children from the kindergarten. It is indeed astonis­hing and for us today as instructive as it is inspiring, which richness in forms he developed out of this, a­nd how he inspired the children to always new efforts of.....

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"The fourth gift consists of eight bricks, which are formed by four longitudinal cuts through the cube. These bricks were handled in the same way as the cubes of the third gift. The bricks are kept and put in order in a little box. This is a good way of keeping things in order and it is always easy to control if all bricks are united again. With this Fröbel was trying to show to the child how DIVERSITY CAN EVOLVE FROM UNITY and how DIVERSITY can be put in an order to.....

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"The fifth gift was created by Fröbel as a modification of the third gift. The cube is divided into three layers, creating 27 cubes in smaller shapes. Three of them are further taken apart into another six prisms by diagonal cuts. Three additional cubes are divided through two diagonal cuts in overall twelve corresponding smaller prisms.

The "roof shapes" created by this, stimulate the building of miniature houses. By lining them up, duplex houses.....

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"The integration of the version after Goldammer, a modified version of Fröbel's fifth gift with round elements, followed the spirit of that time, which asked for combining round shapes with a cubic gift.

The Goldammer box - Goldammer was a Fröbel expe­rt and admirer - is an interesting construction kit for different uses. It cannot form an integrated unit of one body, which Fröbel's gifts could. 

Forms of recognition (examples):
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­"Friedrich Fröbel's thoughts on game material suitable for children like ball-roller-cube and their divisions lead him to today's lay material.

Starting out from these bodies, which he gave in the hand of the little child for playing (that is why he calls them gifts for playing), he finally discovered also the beautiful clear shapes and surfaces of the previously mentioned three bodies as an independent game material, which.....

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