Autumn Projects & Trips!

We love Autumn!

Creating an Outdoor Seasonal Spot (Daddy wove the Cornucopia and dyed it in indigo, Joey needlefelted the acorn child finger puppet)

Visiting the Sacramento Zoo

Taking a Nature Walk After the Rain

Knight and a Lady Song/Performance! (with cousin Sydney as the Lady)

Minerals and Rocks

Watercoloring Autumn Colors

Visiting the Bohart Entomology Museum at UC Davis (and eating lunch in the residence hall dining commons w/college students!)

Oatmeal Raisin Spice Vegan Cookies (see comments below for a link to the recipe)

Window Stars

Harvest Song Writing and Kalimba Playing
Sun & rain (BDC)
Flowers wane (BDC)
Now it's time to (BDCE)

Harvest grain! (DFG)

Re-decorating our Indoor Seasonal Spot for Autumn (aka Nature Table, Seasonal Table)

Calligraphy & Drawing with Pokeberry Ink (the pokeberries are finally ripe this week! --thanks to Lisa of 5 Orange Potatoes for the inspiration)

Spinning Yarn & Dyeing Silk (birthday present for our wonderful neighbor-- yellow-orange silk dyed with a mushroom found under our tomato plants!)

Planting our Winter Veggie Gardens

Happy Autumn!

Happy Autumn!

We are taking our time celebrating Autumn this year. Something little each day.

Star Lanterns from our old watercolor paintings.

Sandbox for Letters/Numbers, Finding Treasures, Meditation (see www.thewaldorfway.blogspot.com for more info. on making the sandbox)

Needlefelting Dwarves Mining and Wet-felting Cave (instructions and more pics to come!)


Reading Autumn Poems and Singing Autumn Songs

Making Cornhusk Dolls

Cutting, Needlefelting, and Sewing Autumn King & Queen Crowns

Baking Vegan Harvest Herb Bread and Carrot Cake

Exploring the Magical Five Seeds in Apples

Felting Acorn People Finger Puppets

What are you doing to celebrate Autumn?

Creative Family Workshop

http://www.syrendellacademy.com/

We hosted a Creative Family in the Dell workshop this past weekend. Three lovely families joined us for watercoloring, Steiner philosophy, fiber arts, music and more!

Steiner College provided yummy, biodynamic veggie enchiladas, and we had a salad with veggies from our garden and Sacramento Waldorf school's garden. We explored the garden and yard, looking for nature's treasures.

For fiber arts, we carded wool with two different sizes of hand carders and a drum carder. We did some needlefelting and spinning on spindles. With wooden finger puppet bases, we glued on acorn caps and some of our felted fiber to make little woodland people puppets.

We played some percussion instruments, sang songs and wrote verses to our children. We ended the day with a song that we made up as a group:

The day is done
Our work's begun
Singing in a circle
Thank you friends
For this time
The kids have played
And had some fun

The day is done

Thank you to the wonderful families who made this such a special day! More workshops to come. For more details about what we learned and shared, please see Rick's blog: www.thewaldorfway.blogspot.com.