I have been having a wonderful time making rod puppets. Such magical beings!
Sun Beam Moon Beam
Welcome, to the sun beam moon beam blog- May the sun beams share their golden light with you as the nightingale shares its song at dawn. In this blog I hope you find something special to share with the people in your life that you love and care for. There are many seasonal crafts inspired by waldorf education, natural, and the daily wonder and questions of the children I have the joy to work with. May magic find you wherever you go!
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Natures Play dough
Here's the recipe one of the wonderful parents at my school shared with me. She found it on line at Waldorf in the Season of Life, its called Lucy's playdoh:
Recipe:
2 cups flour
2 cups water
1cup salt
1tbs oil
4tsp cream of tartar
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Dragon Bread!
All the children hard at work |
Putting all the dragon scales on with sliced almonds |
Gluten Free Recipe:
The gluten free dragon ready for the oven |
1 1/2 cup brown rice flour
1 cup cornmeal
1 tsp salt
2 tsp xanthan gum
1 tsp yeast
2 Tbs maple syrup
2 eggs or egg substitute
1 1/2 cups warm water
Mix dry ingredients and wet separately. Then mix them together and add brown rice as needed to make a easy to shape ball of dough. Once shaped into a beautiful dragon cook at 350 for 15 to 20 minutes Let stand for 5 and enjoy!!
Whole Wheat Flour Bread Recipe:
The recipe I used is taken from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman it is bread made easy and all you need is a food processor. The book it's self is amazing and I recommend it to anyone who love simple and amazing food.
3 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
Wheat bread out of the oven |
2 tsp yeast
1 tsp honey
1 cup water
All all ingredient into your food processor except the water. Turn in food processor and slowly add water in a small drizzle until all the water has been added ( about 1 min). The bread will begin to form and make and ball once it has reached this stage the bread dough is done. For more in depth information see How to Cook Everything Vegetarian.
From here allow bread to rise and them form into you dragon and cook at 350 for 15 to 20 minutes, let stand and enjoy!!
Gluten free bread right out of the oven |
Dragons
With Michaelmas, the feast of Saint Michael approaching it was time for a little dragon fun. This craft was inspired by a tissue paper hat. I drew a dragon and copied it on our school printer due to the amount of children I work with. Then I cut up colorful tissue paper in small piece for an easy crumple. Each child with free to color and dress up their dragon with crayons and tissue dots. To make the tissue dot crumple the paper and lightly dip it into glue and let the magic unfold.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Candle Wax Boats
These are wonderful little candle boats that I made using a very simple wax kit that can be bought at Micheals. I used a old jar and melted the wax in a pot of water. Then very carefully poured it in to the pods. With the heat of the hot wax it is not an activity to do with children- but was a magical boat!! Enjoy
Pom Poms
How it went. It was really fun for the children they said they felt like their where wrapping pasta on a fork. We made wonderful red apples and found the easiest way to tie them was take the whole bundle of yarn off the fork, find the middle and cut it in half, then lay it down on the table and use another piece of yarn to tie the middle tight.
Toa of Craft
A blog that I am finding wonderful ideas in is the Tao of Craft. Such a beautiful bright blog with so many different offerings. I made gnome houses with my children at school and got the idea here. They were so simple to make and the children loved them. The photo that inspired me to make the houses with the children came from a camp that tao of craft's children went to at a Roaring Fork's Waldorf School The camp is called Camp Oginali. Enjoy.
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