Waldorf kindergarten activities

Preview: Find inspiration and ideas in simple activities and crafts for 3 year olds. In a constant search for new developmental activities, I looked for specific crafts for preschoolers. As I found many beautiful craft ideas and beneficial activities, this time I focused on Waldorf inspired crafts. Mostly inspired by the natural materials and

Movement games for children are great for hands-on homeschooling: clapping, bean bag games, marching. Learn how to make and pass bean bags.

Here's a silly Waldorf hand game from Wilma Ellersiek. Your right hand is Pum and your left hand is Pom. They love to play--check it out!

These Waldorf inspired DIYs and tutorials are perfect for a summer afternoon. They are great kid projects to create and fabulous to play with after! Love child made toys! #howweelearn #waldorfinspired #waldorf #waldorftoys #diycrafts #diytoys #tutorial #kidsactivities

Now that 8th grade graduation is behind me, I'm starting to get all geared up for 1st grade. I've got just 3 weeks before my family and I head off for our big summer trip, so I'm wasting no time getting going on my summer prep. Years ago a former colleague of mine put together these two amazing bind

This is NOT an all-inclusive list, just a few of my favorites for the season! For Four Year Olds: For September: (and many of these could work for October or November as well!) Anything from Suza…

Handwork is a fundamental part of the Waldorf curriculum from kindergarten through the grades and high school. It’s so good for children to learn how to make beautiful and useful things with their hands. So how do we teach handwork at home? I have a broad definition of handwork

We set up an activity to illustrate a few basic principles of the Montessori approach. Today we are continuing the series, exploring what some alternative education systems are like.

Nothing connects hands, heart, and head quite like the Waldorf practice of handwork. Its importance is woven into the very fabric of the Waldorf curriculum and is a practice that nurtures not just skills, but the development of well-rounded individuals. The fact that through making beautiful and enduring objects, children are at the same time learning math skills, spatial understanding, developing their dexterity, all while problem solving, makes handwork one of the most important parts of…