Magical Halloween Cutting Story

We have done this story for two years now and it is magical! It is a story about a witch and a mouse finding a home in the cold. You cut along with the story and reveal the surprise at the end! Practice this one first before sharing it and have two pieces of paper because they may want you to "do it again!" Here is the link to the story.
Have Fun! Happy Halloween! If are are interested in learning some really cute Halloween songs to sing with your children, I highly recommend Wee sing for Halloween! I learned these songs and we now sing them every year!

Pumpkins

Last year, when my son was in Kindy, we had a little fall festival/get together with other Waldorf home schoolers and decorated Pumpkins and Gourds with natural materials! They turned out great! Each family collected natural materials during their nature walks and rummaged through their cupboard for the decorative items. We had thins like, dried goji berries, almonds, leaves, twigs, bark, pine needles, dried flowers, acorn caps, even seaweed! The glue was a little drippy but dried clear! :)

Dragon Bread

DRAGON BREAD
My son is now attending a Waldorf Program for first grade. But I will continue to share some of the activities we did last year during our Homeschool Kindy adventures in The Pirate School of Make Believe!
We made Dragon Bread for Michaelmas. We used the recipe from Bread making with Children. My son sculpted the dough and then added raisins for eyes and crushed almonds all over! We also read the story. "The Most Beautiful Dragon in the Whole World" and water colored a sky with a sun to go along with the story! We also dyed silk capes from Marigolds growing in our Garden with friends at a park on a camp stove. I highly recommend that you buy mortar or alum for this project so that the color stays better! Wishing you a season of courage and strength!

Apples

This week our story is The Star House from Autumn Tales by Suzanne Down. In this story a little apple tree looks up to the stars and wishes he could be a star. Mother Earth tells the little tree to be patient and he will discover that he is as special as the stars. The seasons come and go and once the apple is ripe and picked, Mother Earth shows the little tree his own stars, which he has had all along! A very sweet story. We have had apples for snack everyday ( the one I cut open after the story each day as pictured here) This apple story lends itself to many baking and cooking projects as well! We will be making caramel apples as well as apple pie ( for Thanksgiving).
Other Activities:
Apple Prints on cloth napkins with fabric paint
Drying apples slices (sliced with star showing)
Planting the seeds

Toadstools

This week our story is The Mushroom In the Rain by the teachers at Acorn Hill Waldorf Kindergarten and Nursery, From the book A Lifetime of Joy. In this story , an ant seeks shelter from the rain under a mushroom. As it rains, more and more animals continue to seek shelter under it as well. After it has stops raining the animals all leave the shelter for their homes and the little ant wonders just HOW they were able to all fit underneath! A very sweet story. We are using wooden animals and a few homemade ones as well as props to tell this story. One of our projects included crafting and then painting toadstools from a paper egg carton.
Other Activities:
Cooking with a variety of mushrooms ( cleaning and cutting)
Portabella mushroom prints
Hunting for mushrooms outside after a rainfall