As a part of my Little Elves and the Shoemaker unit, I always introduce several hand working projects. One of my favorite things to do is weaving. It is simple and the children love the process. I found this grapevine “ribbon” at Michael's for $5 and...
This is a project from Mrs. Goodroe's kindergarten across the hall from me. Each student is given an egg cut out to transform. They then wrote the sentence, “It was an egg, now it is a . . .”. I thought they turned out so lovely!
This week we are dwelling in the world of flowers and plants. I told the children I knew a “scientific illustrator” – a person who draws illustrations of nature. We had our own bean plants growing and I took one and displayed the roots, stem, and...
This is a great activity for building handwork capacity. It requires holding the newspaper tube and wrapping it. The children love the challenge and the end result. We made hearts but you could make any shape. I am such a firm believer in the arts as a powerful...
This is such a great skill to teach children. It teaches rhythm, eye/hand coordination, and a deeply refined level of fine motor skill. One of my students this year has not been overly excited about any project. After learning how to do simple finger knitting...
When a child exercises muscles in the hand, she/he is actually forming the brain. Handwork, in the traditional sense, are activities such as sewing, darning, mending, embroidery, weaving and knitting. One of my Waldorf mentors told me that handwork is deeply...
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