Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame antique painting Froebel Gifts 2 through 6

Froebel Gifts 2 through 6 (aka "the Building Gifts") are wood blocks in various shapes and quantities

and am just completely in love with them as objects

How much fun it would be to wear this carved and painted wooden mask with this long

I love little portraits

German I believe

Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame antique painting Froebel Gifts 2 through 6I love this watercolor, and the tramp frame, and think they make a happy marriage. (Forgive the glare in photos.) Santa (who happily looks more like dad as Santa than "Santa") was executed on orange construction paper mounted to green, dated Dec. 13 and signed AW at the bottom left. Fabulous beard, fabulous boots, fabulous decorated tree (which Santa appears to be hailing), and this curiously sparse arrangement of objects underneath the tree a tiny