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It’s the freedom piece that gets me. • For me there is a real connection between joy and freedom. I think the roots of these feelings tie to my childhood. I was allowed so much space for free open ended play. Space to create, space where I felt so much joy. • • • • • #waldorfeducation #waldorfinspired #steinerinspired #waldorfschool #steiner #steinerschool #rudolfsteiner #anthroposophy #steinereducation #steinerqoutes #waldorfkids #waldorfmom #vrijeschool #waldorfkindergarten #instawaldorf #waldorflife #waldorfhomeschool #education #freedom #openendedplay

Could this multiplication chart be any more beautiful? Thanks for the great idea @cinciwaldorf ! ⭐️ ・・・ #waldorfschool #waldorfeducation #waldorfchild #queencity #waldorfeducation #steinereducation #rudolfsteiner #steiner #waldorflife #waldorfliving #waldorfkindergarden #waldorfpreschool #educate #waldorfinspired #whywaldorf #education #waldorfcommunity

For the fourth post in my #purposefulsensoryplay I'm going to show you how to make wet felted soap with your little ones. Wet felting is a wonderful sensory experience, warm water, soapy bubbles and soft wool roving. Felting soap is a great first felting project as it's so forgiving, it doesn't matter if it turns out a bit lumpy and it continues to felt as you use it! A while back we switched all the soap in our house to bar soap to cut out the plastic bottles of bubble bath and hand soap. We grate soap bars to make dish soap (another great activity for little ones) and use bar soap for everything else. Since then we've been making felted soaps fairly regularly for the girls to use in the bath. It's less slippery, it doesn't get lost under the water and it lasts longer too. When the soap is all gone you can still use the felt as a soapy wash cloth for a few days and then we just pull it apart and add it to the compost heap. These soaps can also be beautiful gifts for little ones to make for family and friends. If you're making them do a few at once and put some away ready for your next birthday party! If you'd like to see how we make these I've put a tutorial in my stories and will save it to my story highlights. Let me know if you give it a go, I love seeing the things you make!

Thursdays is project day for us. There are a few hours between swimming lessons and soccer training that are free for the girls to work on their project of choice, which usually ends up being some sort of handwork or artwork. Today my eldest girl went across the creek with a saw, cut herself a hawthorn branch and set to work whittling a Fairytale Fungi from the book Forest Craft by Richard Irvine. She needed a little help figuring out how to baton the knife to cut out the stalk, so we figured that part out together. Now she's excited to teach her sisters how to make one too. I'm super proud to be raising strong, capable girls who feel confident to try their hands at pretty much anything. Their confidence inspires me to try new things.

Magic toadstool paintings by my three and five year old. I love how they had the same three colours and yet their paintings turned out so very differently. Occasionally I like to surprise the little ones during their weekly painting session by drawing a seasonal picture in white beeswax crayon on the watercolour paper before soaking. Once they start painting the picture "magically" reveals itself. ✨

Term 1, Week 10 ~ Permaculture Principle 3: Obtain A Yield. Learning about crop rotation today and drawing up a crop rotation plan for each of their own garden beds, working out garden planning for both the main growing season and for the cooler winter months. It’s such a lovely warm sunny day here after a gorgeous misty start, we can’t wait to get outdoors and plant our main garlic crop this afternoon

Our nature tiles are all finished and sitting by the windowsill to dry. It was a really lovely way to talk about the different leaves, seeds, bits and pods the bush land in our area produce. These will be given a coat of Modpodge sealant when completely dye to help secure the lose parts. The last thing we want is little pieces being in little mouths. . . . #waldorfinspiredliving #waldorfhome #waldorfkids #waldorfathome #childhoodunplugged #motherhoodunplugged #woodentoys #ecotoys #ecotoysaustralia #plasticfree #naturaltoys #steinereducation #rudolfsteiner #craft #waldorfcraft #airdryclay #naturecraft #naturekindergarten #seasonaltable #naturetable

Something that's been in my feed and on my mind a lot lately is the idea of preparing sensory activities for small children. I've noticed that a lot of the activities that are shared here on Instagram and that pop up on Pinterest use food or cheap products that are full of chemicals and colourings. Much as I'm sure these activities are fun and well intentioned they seem to produce a lot of waste and lack the element of purposeful work that young children find so satisfying. Over the next week or two I plan to share some simple "sensory" activities you can do with children that are fun and messy but also contribute to the real work of the home. I'm starting with making butter! It is so very easy for children to do this independently. The joy and sense of pride that children feel as they squeeze their very own butter between their hands, press it into moulds and spread it on their bread, it's the best! All you need is cream, a heavy jar (canning jars are the best) and a marble. A mould and special plate to turn it out onto are nice, but totally optional. We make butter most weeks alongside our Monday bread dough unless we don't have any cream in the fridge. All you need to do is fill your jar half full with cream, pop in the marble and screw the lid on nice and tight. Then get shaking! First it will turn into whipped cream, at this stage you'll stop hearing the rattling of the marble but keep shaking! Next your whipped cream will start to curdle and turn a pale yellow colour...keep shaking. Next you will begin to see the buttermilk and butter separating...keep shaking! Eventually you will have a solid mass of butter surrounded by butter milk. Open the jar and tip it all into a bowl and let your little ones squeeze and squash the butter between their hands to remove the last of the buttermilk. At this stage you can add salt to your butter if you choose, again squeezing to combine. Finally press the butter into your mould and pop it in the fridge. Wash hands and then drink that delicious buttermilk after all the hard work of shaking and squeezing and pressing. I've written up the sweet little verse we like to say during the shaking process in the comments.

Term 1, Week 7. Photo 1: Today we finished up the last few outstanding bits and pieces of our Term 1 maths block (Grade 4: Fractions and Grade 3: Times Tables), and we began a joint Farming & Gardening Block, using the 12 Principles of Permaculture as a framework for our learning. For this block we will be exploring maths, measurement, science, literacy, poetry and music in the garden; lots of opportunity for cross disciplinary learning which will span both grades. Photo 2: We are using @spiralgarden’s wonderful Permaculture course for families, ‘Seedlings’, as well as the amazing books and resources I’ve collected over the years. Video 3: And thank you to @beauty_of_play for reminding me of the musical fractions activity using glasses of water: volume, measurement, fractions and music all rolled into one! He is playing the folk song ‘Dinah’ he learnt from @Hoffmanacademy lessons ☺️)