A preschool teacher in Japan tells how she uses "the artifacts of advancement," such as the songs children have become familiar with through watching television, to educate "the feeling heart" of young children and lead them to involvement with and appreciation of nature. After a description of the Sasanoha kindergarten in Kamakura City and a set of drawings schematically depicting movement exercises set to music, ideas in practice are told in a series of narrative accounts. The stories concern the use of words to express feelings and develop close contact with others, teachers' attainment of child-like dispositions through contact with children, the educational use of music in the preschool classroom, drawing music, and musical drama. Also narrated are experiences concerning group drawing, drawing experiences of nature, reaching "the child's heart," nature walks, transforming stories into plays, and the production of a musical drama through collaboration between children and their teacher. Themes running through the accounts are those of (1) building children's physical strength and health through a progression of activities beginning with "doing music" and including developing feeling for color and form, exericising the imagination, and cultivating creativity, and (2) the enrichment of children's emotional life through drama and other activities which can lead children to an awareness of sociability, civility, and proper behavior. (RH)