This is one of a series of products developed in cooperation with Fred M. Rogers, creator of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," the award-winning public television program for children. Both the program and the materials based on it encourage children to be themselves, to imagine, to create, to cope with feelings and new ideas -- and through all these things, to learn and to grow.
These puzzle blocks give children two delightful ways to meet their urge for hiding things, then finding them. They can rearrange the cubes to separate the picture parts or to bring them back together again. And they can use the boxes themselves as hiding places for little treasures. Hiding and finding is another way of playing about going away and coming back. Children will find many ways to use these blocks.
The concept here is pretty simple. Punch out the somewhat sturdy cardboard pieces and fold them to form six cubes. The cubes can be arranged to form any one of six images -- Mister Rogers' sneakers, his sweater, the fish tank, Picture Picture, the Trolley, or the stop light.
Below are examples of two unpunched pages.
It's taking everything I have in me not to punch out these blocks for my kids to play with -- but considering these pages have gone untouched for almost forty years, it's probably best that I leave them alone.
6 comments:
I'd scan them and print to a card stock. Then, create perforations to make your own usable set!
Maybe some spray adhesive on the back of the pieces would give them more sturdiness for lasting play. It would preserve your own set and still give you play value.
I'd love to see some scans of the rest of their "model neighborhood" if there are any. I see one side of a cube that shows the yellow-green-blue building trio of Brockett's-Negri's-Betty's theatre.
Vickie -- I thought about that. I did that with the Build-a-Castle and it worked out pretty well. The problem is the size of this book. It's large enough that I cannot scan each page individually on my scanner and piecing together multiple scans per page is more trouble than I'm interested in deal with right now. I good idea for a rainy day though...
Aaron -- Stay tuned. I'll try and get some of the other sketches seen in this book scanned and shared in the next few days.
you could possibly find a local print shop to copy these for you?
OOOH, fun!!!! I would have LOVED those as a kid! Why did my parents not buy me any of this stuff??? Seriously?? :)
mrmeadowlark -- Thanks for the idea. I hadn't thought about that as an option.
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