Waldorf Homeschoolers

[Nursingnaturalmom]

Lets see your nature tables! I was going to wait for until the equinox for spring tables and such but the kids are really feeling spring this week. So we did hte nature table this morning for circle time. Read Root Children and spending lots of time outside.

So lets hear about YOUR nature table and verses etc.

Chandi

[dogretro]

Since there is still a lot of snow outside our house, our table still has snow, a pinecone, and a winter gnome on it

[LuxPerpetua]

Our nature table is on hold during Lent. We currently have a picture of Jesus, Holy Week candles that we made, and a crown of thorns "advent" calendar counting down until Easter. After Easter we'll put up our spring table. I have, however, started changing out our season tree, which is a large felt tree on our wall. I've removed most of the snow, and added raindrops a robin holding a shamrock. Soon, I'm going to add a nest with eggs and a bunny, and maybe a rainbow or something. We've been reading spring books, like Beatrix Potter bunny books and Jemima Puddleduck, and have been pretending to be robins and singing spring songs that I've written. I love the nursery rhyme, Little Robin Redbreast, so we set that to music. Last week's fingerplay was one on leprechauns and this week's is a robin one:

Leprechauns! Leprechauns!
Little elves of green
Your feet are so swift that you're hardly ever seen
You scatter seeds of shamrocks, and whistle in warm wind
You shoo away the snowflakes and wake our furry friends
You slide down bright rainbows
And land in pots of gold
You call in Father Sun
To shine away the cold


Little Robin Redbreast likes to eat eat eat
And hop around on her feet feet feet
She says the seeds are sweet sweet sweet
And they make her sing, tweet tweet tweet

(I made both of these up, the latter one on the fly today since I didn't have time last night to make up a new one, so it's not that great.)

[annettemarie]

Right now we have Mother Earth and the root children, who are tucked in and sleeping. I have a couple layers of silks that we'll slowly peel back-- the snowy silk on top, a cold gray one under that, a brownish golden earth one under that, and finally a pale green grass silk. I'd love to get or make a little broom for Mother Earth to sweep the snow away.

We have another little shelf with a rainbow and a leprechaun house that my daughter made, and we'll add more to that as we get closer to St. Patrick's Day.

[LuxPerpetua]

Originally Posted by annettemarie

Right now we have Mother Earth and the root children, who are tucked in and sleeping. I have a couple layers of silks that we'll slowly peel back-- the snowy silk on top, a cold gray one under that, a brownish golden earth one under that, and finally a pale green grass silk. I'd love to get or make a little broom for Mother Earth to sweep the snow away.

We have another little shelf with a rainbow and a leprechaun house that my daughter made, and we'll add more to that as we get closer to St. Patrick's Day.

What kind of Mother Earth and root children do you have--like are these wooden figurines? Do you have pictures?

[annettemarie]

Let me know if you can see these:
Early spring nature table-- I needle felted the root children but I want to finish them and make them fatter
Mother Earth and Baby- I bought these years ago from another Waldorf mama
Flower child and postcard

[Laurel]

I just finished making the Mother Earth and Root Children out of Crafts Through the Year. They're just out of wool. Not felted or anything, just plain uncarded wool rolled into shape for the bodies, with colored wool to dress them. It was so easy, and they turned out beautifully!

[MammaG]

Saint Patrick visited our otherwise Lenten purple Nature Table this morning. I've never tried to put a picture up on a message board. Can anyone help me show off our table without doing something like publicly linking to my FB page? Ta

[numericmama]

Our spring nature table is on our blog.

http://pnwlifelearning.blogspot.com/

Best!

Jennifer

[mum21andtwins]

Thats what flickr is for lol! honestly its for me the quickest and easiest way to show pictures at any forum or anything else online. and you can set it up to show up in your FB pages

[MammaG]

OK, created Flickr account and I hope this works!

Here's our very first Nature Table with a St. Patrick doll we made yesterday.

[mum21andtwins]

it worked! cute St.Pat