Waldorf days of the week gnomes

Thank you all for your kind comments about my gnomes in the last post! Here are some in-progress additions: Lightning gnomes to go with my other weather gnomes. Chore gnomes! It was harder than I thought, finding simple pictures that would (mostly) universally represent common tasks. I tried to avoid having images of people and hands - very difficult. Days of the week gnomes! The "angel" shaped ones are a tiny bit smaller than the average peg person. The "boy" gnomes are the teeny ones that…

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Our mornings start with one of the children changing our day of the week gnome. They seem to take turns and work it out between them. It is a rare day when I get to change the gnome *smile* The day of the week gnomes are made from simple peg dolls. Painted using a good quality water colour palette and wet brush. To deepen the colour and protect the wood I polished them with beeswax and olive oil. I thought about making them little hats but was taken with their simplicity. They are painted…

My youngest son (who was born with Down Syndrome) is very interested right now in the days of the week, asks which day it is, what the day is called, when it is the day his babysitter comes etc. He…

day of the week gnomes, must make!

Last year when Martin Luther King Jr. Day came, I did not tell Rainbow Girl much about who the wonderful man was. This year, I decided Rainbow Girl was ready to learn more about him and the basics of the Civil Rights Movement. We began the day by breifly talking about who MLK was and what he had done to help the world. Then I let her watch a great video I found and watched the night before that addressed how segregation was when MLK was growing up and what he did to change things. She said…

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