3rd grade spinning rocks

For those who wanted to know what the rocks were...they are drop spindles.

Here you can see Renata Spinning with it at the Fiber Craft Studio

School has begun! Welcome to my rooms :)

3rd grade rock drop spindles. we made 25 of them

one of my final projects

This is a story telling apron I made for my final project. ...One of my final projects

Fountain pens

It's important to have a good fountain pen. The Main Lesson books needs that extra time with good penmanship to really become a piece of artwork.

http://www.waldorfsupplies.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/psstone/store/agora.cgi?cart_id=6756314.2839*z16i58&product=Pencils_and_Pens

http://www.montgomerypens.com/product_detail.asp?product_id=10305

http://www.coloradopen.com/category/fountain_pens_0_to_30

My 1st graders placemats

sew good side facing good side. Don't sew up bottom

Turn inside out. and sew up bottom.

Next sew on TOP of the mat round the edge to make it nice and flat

wet felting color wheel and felting with your first grader

My first grader and I woke up this morning and just really wanted to felt! So here are our creations!

we felt outside on a picnic table so that the water goes through it.use very little fleece...no clumps warm water and soap just use yoru hands to put the water on or an empty soap bottle. only gently push down to make sure the water is getting into the woolpat for 10 minsroll into a rice mat for 15 mins. rinse with water

Handwork training at RSC

There are 2 Handwork trainings each year on opposite sides of the US
Here is a post from the West Coast training at Rudolph Steiner College

The Handwork teacher's blog name is Syrendell

http://syrendell.blogspot.com/2010/07/recreating-human-vessel-handcraftsand.html

more teacher training

http://www.fibercraftstudio.org/applied_arts_program

 

More pics from teacher training year 4