Symbolic / Pictorial

SYMBOLIC / PICTORIAL (Lines, Shapes & Images)

Slate pictures to copy	Slate pictures to copy - from McClinton 96	slate.gif
Chalkboard Briefcase	In the car or on the floor in living room, this set is great for children. One side is a dry erase board and the other a chalk board. Each set comes with colored chalk, a dry erase marker, eraser, and a sliding chalkboard so all the supplies can be stored inside. - $12.99	schylling-CBB-2
Magic Drawing Slate	Draw on slate with special pen, then simply pull handle out and the slate is clean to draw on again.	schylling-MGSL-2
Ardoise magique - Mister Griboo	French toy from www.avenuedesjeux.com - Joustra	avdesjeux1.png
Ardoise magique - Grafidoo	French toy - Joustra - draws with magic crayon and erases with a magic eraser Mister Griboo is two sided	avdesjeux1.png
Magic slate	the traditional lift-off plastic
MagnaDoodle	draws with magnetic pen, erases with slide
kindergarten painting book	‘My Present For You’ kindergarten painting book	opie6
MB Little Folks Color Kit, 1905	Little Folks Color Kit, Milton Bradley c1905 - from McClinton 93	colorkit.gif
Kenner Presto-Sparkle paint sets	Kenner’s Presto-Sparkle paint sets with Three Stooges, Rocky & Bullwinkle, etc. - “Biggest selling line of paint sets in America”
Wood burning kit	TW - maybe just a minor form of decoration for leather, wood objects
Pyrogravure	for engraving jewelry, by Ravensburger, French toy from www.avenuedesjeux.com - ditto per wood burning; not sure exactly how this works, but involves electricity & heat	pyrogravure.png

Ohio Art, 1966	Ohio Art drawing toys incl Etch-A-Sketch and others, 1966 Toy Fair trade ad - can it be sharpened? Kaleidocolor, Sketch & Graph, 3D <something>, and a thing that looks like a red bird with wings, a hat and a drawing beak. No eBay hits for “ohio-art 3d”	ohioart1.jpg
Etch-a-Sketch	TW
Le Vrai Telecran	French version of Etch-A-Sketch from www.avenuedesjeux.com	avdesjeux2.png
Etch-a-Sketch Mini	TW
Etch-A-Sketch ad	col scan: full-page Etch-A-Sketch ad, “as new as 1960”	OBrien7.png
Etch-a-Sketch Animator	TW http://www.circuitcellar.com/pastissues/articles/ftb88/text.htm The Animator has an LCD screen of 30 high x 40 wide square pixels. Each pixel is about one-tenth of an inch. Two familiar knobs move the cursor (one square pixel) around the screen. With square pixels, it’s impossible to draw perfect circles. Eight new pushbuttons adorn the electronic sketch pad. Three buttons set the creating mode--move, draw, and erase. With these, you move without affecting the pixels you pass over, leave a trail of “on” pixels, or leave a trail of “off” pixels using the x and y direction knobs. The next three buttons--save, recall, and next--control frames. A frame is where you place your finished picture (you’re allowed up to 12). The frame controls let you store the active picture to the present frame number, copy the last frame to the next frame, and move to the next frame. The last two buttons are special effects. The reverse button changes the state of all pixels (on to off and off to on). The animate button enables you to play any of the 12 frames back in sequence. The sequence can be up to 96 frames in any order. After three minutes of nonuse, the Animator turns itself off. As long as the batteries remain in the unit, all the frames are stored. Changing the batteries erases all the frames. As you can imagine, this interface could be controlled by most any device. It simply needs nine digital outputs. I chose to use a Domino microcontroller to check for signs of life... (eBay) many available, Dec prices $2-15 Bought for $10.50+6
Sketch-A-Graph (Ohio Art)	Basically a pantograph [ebay 1.11.05 half dozen avail] - BIN $5.00. Mickey Mouse Club Sketch A Graph w/pantograph (c) 1955 Includes instructions, idea book, sketch pad, 2 Disney heads (Mickey/Donald), 3 stylus and pantograph - another $1	sketchagraph.jpg sketchagraph2.jpg sketchagraph3.jpg
Doodle Dome	TW
Gyrograph	b/w scan: Gyrograph, early version of “Doodle Top” from Sci Am 1895	mcclary1.gif
Doodletop	French version of toy from www.avenuedesjeux.com	avdesjeux5.png
Magic Designer	TW
Spirograph	TW
Spirograph drawing	Drawing made with a Spirograph, 1975. Pattern drawn by a memeber of the Science Musem Workshops staff using a Spirograph, a popular graphic toy that can be used to draw combinations of curves. Picture Reference: 10302776 ({sas}) - wmk	scitech4
Dial-a-Graf battery-op drawing	TW
Tantalizer	TW

Marquetry sets	Marquetry sets by Haba with hammer, nails, wood pieces, French toy from www.avenuedesjeux.com	pyrogravure.png
Corliss Gemstone Sand Garden	Designed by Katherine Corliss (see Pipe Cleaner Weaving) - arranging gemstones or shells in sushi boxes or wooden trays - [really more of an activity]
Peg Mosaic kit	TW
Lite-Brite (Hasbro)	[ebay] lots available litebrite1.jpg closeup of mosaic grille	sommer2.png litebrite1.jpg litebrite2.jpg
Felt-O-Gram	TW 1931, listed in Kawin for ages 4-10 Mentioned in 1958 movie Rhode Island College AV collection, “The Feltboard in Teaching”. Says the feltboard is also known as the visual board, feltogram or flannel- graph. [or flannelboard]	feltogram1.jpg feltogram2 feltogram3 feltogram4
Flannelgraph also generic Felt-board Flannel-board	Google: 6750 hits for “flannel-graph”, 2070 for “flannel-graph education”. No eBay hits for “flannel-graph” (REALLY surprising); 112 for “felt-board”; 202 for “flannel-board” (lots of variety, but few if any Bible topics I can see, looks like new sets from several vendors). Apparently “Flannelgraph” is pretty much reserved for Sunday School. Sounds like a trade name, wonder where from? http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm& CONTENTID=4709 - John Fischer, “In Praise of Flannelgraph” “Just hearing the word flannelgraph conjures up images of sitting on the floor in someone’s living room, hearing and watching a Bible story about Jesus as a flannel shepherd out looking for woolen sheep lost in the wilderness. And I can see a gray-haired matronly woman with soft hands smoothing out the disciples on the flannelgraph board as she talks. Though it has largely disappeared from the scene, flannelgraph may very well be the closest thing to a strictly evangelical art form, for I never encountered it anywhere but in Christian endeavors, and I haven’t seen it anywhere else since. ... For those of you too young to appreciate this rare art form, flannelgraph is a Bible teaching aid for children that consists of a large flat board set on an easel and covered with a soft woolen material painted as a background scene from biblical times upon which the teacher would place figures of people, animals, and various objects to illustrate the story being told. These figures are made of the same soft material so that they “magically” cling to the board like a sort of biblical Velcro. Various backgrounds can be used depending on the lesson. It might be a lakeside scene with Galilean hills, or a backdrop of what appears to be a temple court surrounded by stone buildings and Corinthian columns, or maybe a scene on a stormy sea. As a story is told, new characters enter and are added to the board, and others are taken off or moved about to indicate action. Flannelgraph was a primary tool in the 1950s in a neighborhood ministry called Child Evangelism, which was held for preschoolers in a believer’s home where neighborhood kids could be invited to come hear the stories of the Bible. It was a way of getting the gospel out to children who would never come to church, and flannelgraph was the big draw. We used to crowd around the easel to get a closer look and sometimes the teacher would let us touch the soft material afterwards.” http://www.wibsite.com/flannelgraph/6.htm - “Anyone who has been to Sunday School in the last four or five decades has either experienced the excitement of a Flannelgraph Bible story... or really wasn’t paying attention. Here on the Wibsite we decided that this ‘fuzzy-felt’ Bible-teaching apparatus has lacked recognition in recent years, and so we have a number of action-packed Flannelgraph features lined up to help put that right.” The Wibsite Flannelgraph: Teach your own Sunday School lessons using well-known Wibsite Characters with our very own homemade Flannelgraph. Arrange Farmer Wibblethorpe, the OHP Worshippers, the Stunt-sheep and many other characters, then add a caption and print out the result. The Wibsite Flannelgraph can be downloaded from the site - it’s a 1.4 Megabyte download and so may take a few minutes using a dial-up connection. flanneltoon6, Wibsite Flannelgraph Cartoons - “This collection of cartoons in celebration of the flannelgraph features some lesser-known Bible incidents. “ http://www.wdbydana.com/flannel.html - Bratton Specialties, sells Bible flannel backgrounds flannelgraph3D.jpg - VeggieTales 3-D Inlaid Flannelgraph Puzzle by Talicor, ages 4-7, $10.47 from http://www.e316.com/5900243524.htm , a Christian online store JACOBSON Z. THE USE OF THE FLANNELGRAPH IN HEALTH EDUCATION. Public Health. 1964 Jan;64:37-41. http://www.oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/kemp.html gives an illustrated summary of a 1953 book by Roy A. Kemp, “Stories in Revelation for Tots to Teens”. A set of 155 pictures printed on “flannel-adhering paper” is meant to be used with the book, to illustrate the stories as they are told using a piece of blue flannel, three feet square, which ingeniously can represent both heaven and earth. http://www.thefeltsource.com/ - Experience how easy & fun it is to teach and play with our 250+ best-selling flannelboard sets. Join the 1,000’s of teachers, parents, librarians & others from around the world that already enjoy our guaranteed products! - Educational, Playtime, Bible Classroom-Bible.jpg categories - Educational includes pre-cut letters, human body set HumanBodyLarge.jpg, Felt Food Pyramid / Anatomy Sets, Animals & Environments, Math & Counting Manipulatives, Classroom Felt Activities, Social Studies Lessons, Geography & Astronomy Felts, Smarty Kat Bilingual Fingerplay Sets , Nursery Rhymes Story Sets, Fairy Tale Flannelboard Story Sets, Kindergarten Lesson Plans, Betty Lukens African Savanna Set, Plain - Single Color Flannel boards	flanneltoon6.jpg flannelgraph3D HumanBodyLarge.jpg Classroom-Bible.jpg
Magna Shapes kit	TW
Magnastiks	Ohio Art - perhaps a 3D construction item? magnetic, i.e. unusual and open-ended	magnastiks.jpg
Colorforms	[eBay search turned up nearly 300 Colorforms items, but I was amazed that none of them were the simple-shapes edition I remembered from childhood (or for that matter as reissued by MOMA I think in the late 80s). Instead there were scads of sets involving licensed characters. I suspect on that evidence that there must be a whole collector’s niche for Colorforms sets. But it’s interesting that the Flannelgraph was used for telling Bible stories. I’ll bet the feltboard has a long tradition related to story-telling. ]
Corliss 3D Play and See	Designed by Katherine Corliss (see Pipe Cleaner Weaving) - attaching geometric Colorforms to lucite sheets arranged in a holder for see-through landscape
Corliss Mandalas In Motion (Spinamajig)	Designed by Katherine Corliss (see Pipe Cleaner Weaving) - attaching Colorforms to lucite discs that rotate on a spindle; can do optical illusions
“junior” cameras
Yankee Photo Printing Sets	trade ad for Photo Printing Sets from Yankee Photo Products, e.g. Three Stooges, Famous Monsters, Famous Cars; “Personal negatives may be printed too!”	yankee1.jpg
Flights of Fancy Photography kit	$17.50 - see sci kits

Mov-I-Graff	Mov-I-Graff: The Man of a Thousand Faces - wiggly chain makes profile	opie1.png