Did the child make a choice to engage?
Who is in control of the situation? Did the child make a choice to engage? First, Barney chose the Art Area over all others. Once there, he chose the modeling dough table over painting easels, puppet making, and drawing. Taking a closer look at Barney’s table, we see various modeling dough tools such as cookie cutters, carving sticks, cutting wheels, and at least three other types of wooden mallets. We also see other tubs of modeling dough. So, Barney definitely chose to pound yellow modeling dough with the small, flat mallet.