{"id":103,"date":"2019-03-05T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/en\/toy\/toyaward-2003\/"},"modified":"2019-04-26T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T13:10:12","slug":"toyaward-2003","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/information\/toy\/toyaward-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"ToyAward 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2809\" src=\"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Logo-Pr\u00e4mierung-Spielzeug-des-Jahres-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>First German Consulting and Information Center for left-handers and Converted Left-handers<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nSendlinger Str. 17<br \/>\nD-80331 M\u00fcnchen<br \/>\nTel.\/Fax 089 \/ 26 86 14<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\">Award of the<b>Toy of the Year 2003 for Left-Handed Children<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">to the firm<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16pt\"><b>KERSA\u00a0Spielwaren-Atelier GmbH<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16pt\">for its\u00a0<b><span style=\"color: #000000\">Finger Glove Puppets,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16pt\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000\">part of the Toy Range KERSAKletti\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The firm KERSA has made the fingers in its glove puppets, part of the KERSAKletti range, in such a way<span style=\"font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span>that they can be just as easily used with the right hand as with the left. With other comparable glove puppets you find that, for the most part, they are designed for the right hand. In this case, however, there is no stress or strain when the left or right hand is put into the glove. Thumbs and small fingers readily find their place on the left or the right side and so left-handed and right-handed children enjoy equally good possibilities with these puppets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">For this reason, we are conferring the KERSAKletti\u00a0 range of the company Firma\u00a0<b>KERSA\u00a0<\/b>Spielwaren-Atelier GmbH &amp; Co. KG with the award of\u00a0<b>Toy of the Year 2003 for Left-Handed Children.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">As one of the clearest examples, we have chosen the glove puppet Punch (Article number17000), which measures 33 x 25 cm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bild-rahmen alignleft wp-image-509\" src=\"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/17000-Kasperltheater-227x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"274\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Description of the finger glove theatre<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The hand slips into a soft, padded glove, fleecy on the outside, framed in a felt theatre setting. The neck gives a good grip to stop the hand slipping out of the glove. Puppet heads made from textiles or wood are fixed to each finger of the glove puppet heads or a crocodile or other felt accessories. In the background there is a Punch and Judy theatre, a magic wood or a castle made of felt.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Stimulating finger movements, speech and imagination<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The glove puppets encourage finger motion and stimulate children to practice playful finger movements. The creative possibilities enable children to have a joyful experience in role play. Speech and expression is stimulated through the dialogue between the individual fingers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Left-handed children often find great joy immersing themselves in their imaginary stories and the puppets help in this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">It is surely no coincidence that there are left-handers in the family which founded and still runs this company. The son of the managing director, G\u00fcnther Schubert, himself a left-hander, has concentrated on the needs of left-handed children for a long time and still does as the commercial and marketing director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Here is a firm which has succeeded in producing a lovely and imaginative toy, equally suitable for left-handed and right-handed children. It helps get their fingers moving and encourages them to make playful interactions and dialogue between the puppet figures.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Adaptation for very small hands<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">It can happen that the puppet heads topple over with children whose fingers are not so big and strong. In this case, help can be provided by sticking a table tennis ball at the end and a face can be painted on the other side. Hair can be provided for the puppet by sticking on wool fibres or cotton wool. A small cap or tunic can easily be made with a piece of cloth or felt. There are no limits to the imagination and the puppet heads are perhaps best when on the thumbs, which usually have more strength for holding them.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The firm KERSA does not have the finger glove puppets of the KERSAKletti range on its own website at present, but they can be viewed at the website of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafueliki.de\">LAF\u00dcLIKI<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Address:<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>KERSA\u00a0<\/b>Spielwaren-Atelier GmbH &amp; Co. KG, Ifenstra\u00dfe 7 D-87719 Mindelheim, Tel. 0 82 61) 76 57-0,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kersa.de\">www.kersa.de<\/a>,\u00a0e-mail: info@kersa.de<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">\u00a9 Copyright: Consulting and Information Center for Left-handers and Converted Left-handers<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> (Erste deutsche Beratungs- und Informationsstelle f\u00fcr Linksh\u00e4nder und umgeschulte Linksh\u00e4nder)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> Sendlinger Str. 17, D \u2013 80331 Munich (M\u00fcnchen), Germany \/ Europe, Tel.\/ Fax: +49 \/ 89 \/ 26 86 14<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/Welcome.htm\">https:\/\/lefthandrer-consulting.org<\/a>, e-mail: info@lefthander-consulting.org<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; First German Consulting and Information Center for left-handers and Converted Left-handers Sendlinger Str. 17 D-80331 M\u00fcnchen Tel.\/Fax 089 \/ 26 86 14 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Award of theToy of the Year 2003 for Left-Handed Children to the firm KERSA\u00a0Spielwaren-Atelier GmbH for its\u00a0Finger Glove Puppets, part of the Toy Range KERSAKletti\u00a0 The firm KERSA has made the fingers in its glove puppets, part of the KERSAKletti range, in such a way\u00a0that they can be just as easily used with the right hand as with the left. With other comparable glove puppets you find that, for the most part, they are designed for the right hand. In this case, however, there is no stress or strain when the left or right hand is put into the glove. Thumbs and small fingers readily find their place on the left or the right side and so left-handed and right-handed children enjoy equally good possibilities with these &#8230; <a title=\"ToyAward 2003\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/information\/toy\/toyaward-2003\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about ToyAward 2003\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":84,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/532"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefthander-consulting.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}