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Dramatics in the home

Chapter 15: REFERENCES
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The pamphlet explains how parents can nurture children's natural dramatic impulse through everyday play and organized activities rather than preparing them for the stage. It surveys forms of imaginative expression — early doll and make-believe play, serial and cooperative dramatizations, folk dancing, pantomime, tableaux, dramatized household tasks, storytelling, and festive parties — and offers practical guidance for adult participation, supervision, and group structures such as clubs and self-governance. Emphasis falls on cultivating expression, discipline, social manners, and aesthetic sensibility within the home and community settings.

REFERENCES

The Dramatic Festival, by Annie A. T. Craig. (Containing plays and festivals for successive school periods.)

Folk Festivals, by Mary Master Needham. (Very practical and suggestive.)

Pageants and Pageantry, by Bates and Orr. (Helpful introduction and five pageants.)

Festivals and Plays, by Percival Chubb. (For schools and other institutions. Valuable suggestions on the use of music in festival work.)

The Celebration of the Fourth of July by Means of Pageantry, by William Chauncy Langdon.

Education through Recreation, by George E. Johnson.

*Education by Plays and Games, by George E. Johnson.

*Play in Education, by Joseph Lee.

Education through Play, by Henry S. Curtis.

*The Kingdom of the Child, by Heinige.

*The Play Way, by H. Caldwell Cock.

*Play Life in the First Eight Years, by Luella Palmer.

*The New Kindergarten Curriculum, Bulletin No. 16, United States Bureau of Education, Chapter on Games.

How to Teach, by Norsworthy and Strayer. Chapter 9, on The Meaning of Play in Education.

Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium, by Jessie H. Bancroft. (Gives graded descriptions of many active dramatic games for all ages.)

Easy Games for Little Players, by Margaret Boughton. (An English publication, showing how to turn the nursery rhymes into dramatic form. This would be excellent for a children’s party or for any little circle that chances to be meeting in the home. The suggested dialogue does not need to be memorized.)

Fundamentals of Child Study, by E. A. Kirkpatrick. Chapter 9, on Play.

The Dramatic Arts, by Caroline Crawford. Article in the Teacher’s College Record, September, 1915.

Children’s Play and Its Place in Education, by Walter Wood.

Manual of Play, by William Byron Forbush.

The Rhythms of Childhood, by Caroline Crawford.

Dramatic Games and Dances for Little Children, by Caroline Crawford.

Timely Games and Songs, by Clara Sawyer Reed.

Games for the School, Gymnasium and Home, by Jessie Bancroft.

Festivals and Pageants, by Percival Chubb.

Pageantry and Dramatics in Religious Education, by W. V. Meredith.

The Use of Dramatic Arts in Religious Education, by Mary Alice Jones. (An M. A. thesis on file at Northwestern University.)

* The volumes that are starred will be found particularly helpful. The volumes listed above may be secured through the publishers of this pamphlet.