Articles by Topic

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Anthroposophy

• Anthroposophy and Attachment Parenting
• What are Fairies?

Artistic activities

• Make Coloring Pads
• Over in the Pumpkin Patch :: Puppetry Apron,  Nursery Rhyme and Felted Figures
• Wet on Wet Watercolor Painting Set up
• Wet on Wet Watercolor Painting Tutorial

Attachment Parenting

• Anthroposophy and Attachment Parenting
• Op Ed on Sandy Hook

Autumn

• Over in the Pumpkin Patch

Birthdays

• Waldorf Kindergarten Birthdays

Boys

• The Dance of Mother and Son
• The Expansive Energy of Boys

Breastfeeding and Weaning

• Anthroposophy and Attachment Parenting

Care

 

Coming of Age

• How to Discuss Menstruation with Your Daughter (or Son)
• How to Prepare for Your Girl’s First Period
• Create Magic with Your Child

Cooking with Children

• Bread Baking
• Soup Making
• Soup Stock Preparation

Crafts

• Felt Butterfly and Turtle
• Felted Flower and Spring Poem
• Make Coloring Pads
• Make Knitting Needles
• The Waldorf Handwork and Craft Curriculum

Curriculum

• Active Arithmetic
• Curriculum Resources for the Early Years
• First Grade Knitting ~ From Farm to Story
• Mango Math
• Rhythm in the Early Years
• The Waldorf Handwork and Craft Curriculum
• Wet on Wet Watercolor Painting Set up
• Wet on Wet Watercolor Painting

Discipline

• Parenting with Soul ~ Queen of the Castle

Dolls

• The Role of the Doll in the Life of the Child :: An Interview

Early Childhood

• Bread Baking
• Coloring Pads
• Curriculum Resources for the Early Years
• Gardening with (for) Young Children
• Rhythm in the Early Years
• Spotlight on Margaret’s Garden
• Waldorf Kindergarten Birthdays
• Warmth with  Lavender Cloths
• Wet on Wet Watercolor Painting Set up
• Wet on Wet Watercolor Painting Tutorial

Earth Day

• Earth Day is Everyday

Easter

• Easter in the Home
• Inner Easter
• Most Beautiful Easter Eggs
• Mother Earth’s Easter Basket
• What to do with all of the hard boiled eggs?

Festival Life

Fairy Tales

• Fairy Tales in Waldorf Education
• The Frog Prince
• The Return of the Sun King
• What are Fairies?

Finger Play

• The Cicada Hums
• Five Little Peas
• Pease Porridge Hot

First Grade

• Form Drawing in the First Grade

Form Drawing

• Form Drawing and the FIrst Grade

Gardening

• Gardening with Young Children

Goodness

• How Do I Find and Create Goodness for My Children

Grains

• Barley
• Oats
• Spelt

Handwork

• Visit to the Farm
• Make Your Own Knitting Needles
• How to Knit
• Knitted Chick
• The Waldorf Handwork and Craft Curriculum

Homemaking

• Food for the Soul
• Homemaking as a Social Art

Homeschooling

• Curriculum Resources for Early Childhood
• Get Organized!
• Homeschooling with Waldorf ~ A Primer
• Interview with Eugene Schwartz
• Make Coloring Pads
• Rhythm in the Early Years
• Words of Wisdom

Homesteading

• Raising Chicks

Inner Work

• Mother’s Day ~  A Day to Question
• Op Ed on Sandy Hook

Interviews

• Interview with Janet Allison
• Interview with Nancy Parsons
• Interview with Lynn Jericho
• Interview with Eugene Schwartz

Knitting

• Knitted Chicken

Lunchbox

• Beauty and the Bento Box

Martinmas

• Lighting the Way to Martinmas

Math

• A Lesson in Mango Math

May Day

• Green Wonder of May

Nature Table

• Nature Tables

Nursery Rhymes

• Over in the Pumpkin Patch 

Nutrition

• Edible Wild Plants
• Food for the Soul
• Natural Radiation Detoxification

Painting with Children

• Wet on Wet Watercolor Painting Set up
• Wet on Wet Watercolor Painting Tutorial

Parenting

• How Do I Find and Create Goodness for my Children?
• Parenting with Soul ~ Queen of the Castle
• Words of Wisdom

Play

• The Role of the Doll in the Life of the Child :: An Interview

Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postpartum

• La Dieta: Nurturing the Mother and her Child in the Postpartum Period in the Andes

Puppetry

• Over in the Pumpkin Patch
• Re-finding the Lazy Days of Summer with Outdoor Puppetry

Reading

Recipes

• Cantalope Cooler
• Chicken Stock
• Donut Peach and Mulberries Oatmeal
• Maple, Oat, Spelt Morning Garden Buns
• Morning Garden Soup
• Oat Porridge with Strawberries
• Pea and Lettuce Soup
• Spring Omelette
• Rhubarb Fool

Rhythm

• Rhythm in the Early Years
• Bread Day
• Coloring Day
• Ironing Day
• Painting Day
• Soup Day

Saint Patrick’s Day

• What is Luck? A story told by David Sewell McCann

Second Grade

• A Mango Math Lesson for Second Grade

Senses

• Strengthening the Foundational Senses
• The Sense of Touch
• The Sense of Life

Spring

• Green Wonder of May
• Pea and Lettuce Soup
• When Mary Went Walking, Story Poem and Felted Flower

Story

• David Sewell McCann tells the story,  What is Luck?
• The Four A’s of Intuitive Storytelling
• Affection: The First “A” of Intuitive Storytelling
• The Story of Stone Soup
• The Butterfly
• The Turtle
• The Return of the Sun King

Stress

Summer

• The Cicada Hums
• The Expansive Energy of Boys
• Re-Finding the Lazy Days of Summer with Outdoor Puppetry
• The Return of the Sun King

Toys

• The Role of the Doll in the Life of the Child :: An Interview

Tragedy

• Communicating with Children and Supporting them in Difficult Times
• How Do I FInd and Create Goodness for My Children?

Trauma

• Op Ed on Sandy Hook

Verse

• Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home
• Pease Porridge Hot
• The Cicada Hums