The children did such an amazing job. Can you tell which ones were painted yellow first, and which we’re blue first?
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Painting with two colors
Yesterday we painted with just blue and green paint in the wet on wet technique often used in Waldorf Education. First we painted a yellow circle, then painted in blue from the outer edge and using control not to let the blue touch the yellow so as not to create any green. Then we...
Drawing Jacob’s Ladder
Today we are working on a stick drawing to accompany a writing about Jacob. Layering bees wax crayon colors one on top of another creates such a beautiful affect! Yellow into orange into yellow orange into red into red purple into purple….. It’s so magical to see the images appear on the paper!
Trying To Help Our Bird and Squirrel Friends In This Cold Weather.
Today we hung felted wool sweater scraps from trees in the yard. We hope the birds and squirrels find them and line their nests with nice soft warm wool.
Tissue Paper Collage Birds and a Wool Woven Nest
A nice project for a freezing cold January day! We made a huge mess making these little birds! But they are so bright and shiny and uplifting! We cut the bird shapes from card-stock and made little collages with old newspaper and scrapbook paper and old maps. Then we layered and layered and layered...
Watching the Squirrels
Can you see the squirrel sitting on the stump eating a pumpkin? Rainey loves the squirrel family and has been worried about them since the big Halloween storm took down many branches in their oak tree home leaving their nest exposed. She’s been leaving dried corn, gourds and now pumpkins out for them. It’s...
Waxed leaf mobile
We remade our wax mobile with some new leaves. They hang from a tree root we found after some trees fell a few years ago. We also added acorns made of felted balls a d real acorn tops.
