book binding

I just taught the faculty how to do book binding so that we don't HAVE to buy the pre made books from paper scissor stones or Mercurius....if we don't want to....

The pictures below are books my girls and I made yesterday.....we are just having so much fun with it.
we ran out of glue...so some are undone....its addicting actually.

It is SUPER simple

get cardboard
glue (spray glue is best)
fabric or water color painting.


Take your paper and fold to the desired size. Sew up the center of the fold with simple needle and thread.
have the cardboard almost match the paper. cover the cardboard with material and leave about 1 in allowance on all sides so that you can fold and glue onto the cardboard.

now take the first page of the folded paper and glue that to the cardboard and the last page and glue that to the other side.
All done!

9th grade basket weaving

9th grade
I am very pleased with the basket weaving block. 
this is our 3rd class and our 3rd basket 
Basically they are making one basket per class
next class with will plant dye some reeds for a larger basket that should take them 2 classes....they are just so fast!!!!!

9th grade waldorf basket weaving, main lesson book making etc

This is the first day of basket weaving. Learning the vocabulary of the material and how to use wet reeds.

this is main lesson book making with the 9th grade. really easy an fun7th grade felted slippersmaking slippers with 7th grade.

9th grade spinning

cell phone case (finished project)

Spinning with 9th grade has been challenging and fun!

we only had 8 double periods for this Art block but is has been very rewarding for them.  My next block with them in May will be Basket weaving.

we started with spinning on a stick with some white batting, then we moved into the drop spindle, spinning with white  pre prepped spinning fleece, soon we went into different colored fleece, we plant dyed some of their work and ended with adding in  funky yarn to the spinning because they needed that extra challenge, color and sanguine interest.

9th grade MainLesson block

I am teaching a 9th grade Main Lesson Block on Art History

and LOVING IT!!!!

here is a black board drawing I did on cave art
I am actually only teaching 2 weeks of the block...but its lots of fun and it's my favorite students to work with. Remember I am their mentor this year so its been really nice working with them on different subjects besides talking through subjects like : "I hate how much makeup she wears" or "why can't we have a base ball team this year?"