The third gift consists of eight cubes. Fröbel divided a bigger cube by cuts. The “cube, which was divided once into all directions” – it was the third gift – was tested by him in an especially intense manner, in cooperation with the children from the kindergarten. It is indeed astonishing and for us today as instructive as it is inspiring, which richness in forms he developed out of this, and how he inspired the children to always new efforts of imagination.
Forms of recognition (examples):
When the cube is taken apart, the different forms of division will be recognized:
a whole
two halves
four fourths
eight eighths
Forms of life (examples)
Forms of beauty (examples)
“Forms or figures show the “Dance of the Cubes” in five sequences, including the starting figure and the concluding figure, which are always the same!”