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Frank Lloyd Wright spoke confidently about the influence that Froebel's Gifts and Occupations had on his architecture and graphic art work. Froebel's Kindergarten is a comprehensive education program filled with diverse, yet highly integrated exercises, and Wright's reference to them as a youngster leaves little doubt that he had seriously studied upward to twelve of the twenty-four kinds of Gifts and Occupations eventually integrating Kindergarten design methods and principles into his life-long work.
The German Kindergarten experienced in 1876 as a nine-year old boy consisted of a series of multiple exercises of Gifts and Occupations. The genius of Frank Lloyd Wright thrived on the curriculum-rich series of hands-on learning where he could visualize and study spatial relationships using geometrically shaped objects that were manipulated on proportionally scaled grid-topped tables.
Kindergarten Gifts are given to children, played with and returned to their original forms with the exception of a few, which may be saved and displayed in albums. Occupations are modified into new and creative forms, prized by the children usually in albums, and sometimes given as gifts to others.
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