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Article: Sandbox
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- Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
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Sandbox
The precise genesis of sand play and the original rationale for it are not known, but it is a quite natural evolution from the kinds of informal play with earth that children all over the world seem to engage in during early childhood. Sand was a cheap and hygienic solution to early educational theorists' suggestions of the value of free play with materials. The earliest references to children's sand play appear in accounts of playgrounds in mid-nineteenth-century Germany. The educational ideas in this part of the world were greatly influenced by the writings of Friedrich Froebel, who introduced the concept of the kindergarten, or children's garden. His writing stresses the ...
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