Category: Crafts
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A Birthday Fit For a Prince
Master C is 4! The night before his birthday we tucked him in bed and recited this beautiful verse that was included in the orientation papers from our local Steiner School, where Master C begins pre-kinder next week: When I have said my evening prayer And my clothes are folded on the chair And my…
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Nature Table Crafts (Part 3): Felted Fairies
Happy New Year! This post is the last in a 3-part series, presenting a few simple, quintessentially Waldorf crafts that anyone new to Steiner can undertake when first starting out, with little or no previous craft experience. These crafts are easy enough to make, take minimal time to finish and best of all, once completed,…
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Nature Table Crafts: Wooden Gnomes
Last post was the first in my Nature Table Crafts series, which shares a few ideas for super simple crafts that any newcomer to Waldorf (or crafting generally) can whip up quick smart without too much difficulty. Last post I shared my Felt Ball mobile, and this week…we’re taking on the gnomes. There are few…
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Nature Table Crafts: Felt Ball Mobile
Since it is our first year “doing Waldorf”, creating a nature table is a new thing for me. Our first nature table was for Autumn, and at the time I liked the idea of adding a felt ball mobile, in Autumn colours, to hang above the nature table to bring the scene all together, and also…
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Filana Organic Beeswax Crayons Review
Several months ago, an Indiegogo campaign was launched to fund the initial production and distribution of a new line of beeswax crayons notably different from all others on the market. Filana Organic Beeswax Crayons were developed by artist, Waldorf educator, and publisher of Waldorf Today, David Kennedy, who had been working for many years to develop a…
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Make your own wooden blocks
During the last week of Term 2, Big Daddy took Master C to the 3 year old playgroup that we attend each week at our local Steiner School. Usually something that I attend with the kids, this was an opportunity for my husband to experience firsthand exactly what it is that makes a Steiner classroom…
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