The Froebel gift to the world was to point us in the right direction for educating our children and ourselves.

The Froebel gifts are intended to give the child from time to time new universal aspects of the external world, suited to a child development. The occupations, on the other hand, furnish material for practice in certain phases of the skill.

The Froebel gift leads to discovery; the occupation to invention. The gift gives insight; the occupation, power.