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'Die Formenarbeiten Part 6: Die Papparbeiten' (Cardboard Modelling) by Alois Fellner was published by Wien, A. Pichler's Witwe & Sohn during the years 1874/79. The designs fall into three categories, boxes, polyhedra and life forms (in this case buildings).

A full copy of the work can be accessed online here.

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Introduction

Inter alia, the author says, roughly translated: 'Das Pappen has limited use in kindergarten, as it requires considerable dexterity ... and tools that require careful handling. To banish it entirely would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater ... Therefore the kindergarten teacher should give her pupils all the necessary materials for making boxes, fully prepared ... The five to six year old children will soon have completed a number of boxes and will look with great joy at the seeds needed in kindergarten ...'

The sides of these boxes are joined together using paper strips.

The author goes on to say that the construction of polyhedra and life forms by the cardboard modelling technique is more suited to the sixth, seventh and eighth grades of elementary and secondary schools.

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