52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 50 We should not underestimate the significance it once held for mankind to focus the whole attention during the year on a festival-time. Although in our time the celebration of religious festivals is largely a matter of habit, it was not always so. There were times when people united their … Continue reading A Festival Season for All
Festivals with young children can be a magical experience. They are still starry eyed and so connected with all that we cannot see that creating these experiences for them is a gift from our own hearts in keeping the world good and beautiful. But how do we keep that magic alive as our children grow? … Continue reading Celebrating Festivals with Older Children
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 10 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) The Christmas Festival has begun! The last few years I have taken advent as a time to slowly read … Continue reading The Christmas Mood
We have incredibly simple advent traditions in our home. Each Advent Sunday we light a candle and watch a movie together. The first week of advent we decorate the outside and begin decorating the inside. We stretch our indoor decorations out, adding things throughout the month. Depending on when advent falls we might decorate the … Continue reading Simplicity in Advent
Glimmer lantern, glimmer!Glimmer lantern glimmer, little stars a-shimmer.Over meadow, moor and dale flitter flutter elfin veil.Pee-wit pee-wit, tick-a-tack-a-tick, coo-coo-roo-coo. Glimmer lantern glimmer, little stars a-shimmer.Over rock and stock and stone wander tripping little gnome.Pee-wit, pee-wit, tick-a-tack-a-tick, coo-coo-roo-coo. This is one of the traditional songs sung during a Waldorf lantern walk. There is a wonderful free … Continue reading The Festival of St Martin
A Celtic Blessing of Light"May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within.May the blessed sunlight shine upon you and warm your heart till it glows, Like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it, as well as the friend.And may the light shine … Continue reading Festivals of Light
I've always been about simplicity. Living in a small space helps keep that impulse alive because it quickly gets cluttered and overwhelmed with "stuff"! I've spoken a few times on the blog about how we've never used a nature table. We just didn't have the room or visual space to include it in our home, … Continue reading Seasonal Displays in the Home
It is that time of year again. (For A Happy Halloween 2022, click here) A time when many of us gentle parents are wondering how Halloween got to be front yards full of doll heads and clowns with knives. When my children were young, they loved to dress up and of course enjoyed the treats, … Continue reading A Happy Halloween 2023
In Waldorf homes and classrooms around the world, nature tables are slowly being crafted for this new season that is upon us. We live in a small space and did not have room for a dedicated nature table or shelf when my children were growing up. What we did have was a stick hanging above … Continue reading Autumn Kite Paper Leaf Tutorial
The spirit of the season is one of love and coming together. No matter what you celebrate, in all the festivals this is the underlying impulse. As we travel through the holy nights, it reminds me that this practice of looking inward, backwards and forwards is a practice of keeping that impulse alive through the … Continue reading The Keeping of Christmas
