Midsummer's Eve Book

The Flowers' Festival is a perfect midsummer's book! A little girl is lucky enough to spy on the flowers and vegetables getting ready for their midsummer's celebration! Even the house plants join in! It will become a family summer tradition!

May Fairy Flower Garden

We used fairy garden seeds to plant a beautiful fairy flower garden. We also attracted many lovely butterflies as well. A fun project to share with your children.

Waldorf Alaphabet Cards

These beautiful Watercolor alphabet cards are a playful entry into the otherwise abstract world of letters. we have included them on our nature table and my son , who is a beginning reader, just loves thinking of Spring words to spell out with them. Some words we have included so far have been, "rabbit", "blooming", flower" and "chickadee". Included in the deck, there are other suggestions for using the cards as games as well. Buying two deck will allow you be less limited in word choices for spelling. For the bunny garden, we added some potting soil to the bottom saucer of a clay pot and planted some cat grass. We Kept it watered and had grass within 5 days! This works nice if you want to display a tabletop Lenten garden, bare before the Holidays, transformed and full of life afterwords.

Tell Me A Story Cards!

These cards are perfect gifts for girls or boys! A Story Adventure! Shuffle cards and turn over each card , one at a time, to create a different story every time you play! Here is an example of a beginning of a story from the Mystery in the Forest deck.
"Once Upon a time there was a beautiful and peaceful kingdom. But on the night before the fairy princess' Birthday, the people of the kingdom realized that all of her Birthday Presents went missing! Raccoon decided ,since he was a creature of the night, that he should take the key to the kingdom and search high and low for them...."
Each time a new card is turned over you continue to add to the story line! SO MUCH FUN! Children will ask to "do it again" and again! Eventually they will want to try their hand at being the story teller!
Also available in a deck called Fairy Tale Mix Up.

Candlemas: Spring is coming when winter is through

Candlemas (Feb 2nd) marks the midway point between Winter and Spring. This is a great time to share the book The Story of the Root Children with your young ones. Mother Earth takes a candle in hand as she awakens all the little root children so they can prepare their flower dresses for spring!
Another way to bring this story to life is to craft these root children sack dolls for your nature table.

Advent

During Advent, we light a candle each evening ( starting Dec. 1st) to mark the path to Christmas day. We use a nightscape playsilk over a small round table and spiral 24 tea light candles towards one golden star candle in the center ( representing Christmas Day) We also decorate the spiral with pine branches and little wooden stars that we have painted golden. Each Sunday during the month of December we add something that represents each of the four kingdoms the to the spiral.
1st Sunday : rocks and minerals
2nd Sunday: plants
3rd Sunday: little wooden animals
4th Sunday: wooden human figures or (wooden nativity set)
We also read from the book Christmas Roses, Legends for advent, which contains some of our family's favorite stories.

Wooden Hand Cranked Spin Art

These are not only amazingly fun but are wooden and hand cranked (which means no batteries and no wasted electricity!) An investment worth the money! Great for Birthday Parties and Festivals or any nice day outdoors. Also fun for all ages child through adult! Experiment with different color paints and papers! Available through special order from Germany.