In response to my chalk recommendation, Rachel wrote in asking about making your own chalkboard. Making your own chalkboard is so easy, there really is no reason to go buy one. Here’s a quick tutorial.
The first thing is to find the flat material that will be your board. Some people have sectioned off portions of [...]
Ironically, a complex industry has arisen around simple Waldorf toys. I remember when my oldest started attending a Waldorf kindergarten I saw on one of the toy shelves a basket full of 20-30 simple wooden figures. I immediately went home and searched online to find them. I found that these beautifully simple figures were made [...]
From the time a newborn baby’s vision becomes clear enough to distinguish them, human faces are the baby’s most frequently studied form. The blissful gazes that the newborn bestows from the crook of her mother’s arm (when that distance is the exact measurement of the baby’s limited focal length) let every parent know that what the [...]
Naturally beautiful, Waldorf toys are designed to inspire the imagination in an open-ended, creative way. The best toys are inexpensive, simple and made of natural materials. In her book Work and Play in Early Childhood, Freya Jaffke depicts the child simply playing with whatever is around. Ironic, then, that such an industry has arisen around Waldorf [...]
When I first began teaching at a Waldorf school I quickly found that there were resources for teaching that everyone used. Usually the not-to-be-missed resource titles were passed down from teacher to teacher, as each one of us shared with the teacher of the class behind us what worked, what didn’t, and what resources we couldn’t have lived [...]
