Friday, October 27, 2006

Waldorf arts and crafts projects


As promised here is a picture of Aloka's lantern that she made. Next to it, you'll see another SweetPeas project; We decorated a terracotta pot with grout and glass pebbles, and then planted a paperwhite bulb in it. She loves these projects!
Today at SweetPeas we grated crayons with a cheese grater onto wax paper, of all different colors. Then we placed another layer of wax paper on top, and ironed it! It made a beautiful colorful melty thing, that resembles stained glass. We then made a pretty border/frame out of construction paper, and it's hanging on our window now. Another project we did at her other Waldorf Playgroup was a leaf collage on contact paper sandwiched together. That too, is hanging on our window. We're turning into one of those houses where the children's artwork and projects are hanging everywhere! I love it!
Parents: What do you do with this stuff?? We can't possibly throw it away, of course. I suppose we're supposed to stick it in a box until Aloka is 30 and then unload it all and a sentimental gesture, ha ha!
Gosh, if these projects are starting at 3, we're going to be filling up many many boxes! Although, when Kate and Winston got older, their art projects became quite impressive. Beautiful crafts, paintings, marble sculpture. I'm excited for Aloka to experience the same thing.
Here's a photo and a video clip of our playdough project. We made playdough the other day, one of Aloka's favorite things to do lately!


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