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Warmth, clothing and shoes for young children
Environment of the young child
Creating a home life through the year
Toys and the importance of play
CREATING A HOME LIFE THROUGH THE YEAR
A wonderful way of giving a focus to activities and crafts through the year is to bring festivals and seasonal celebrations into the rhythm of the year. Preparing for a festival by making crafts, baking, making cards to send, decorating, singing songs and saying poems that relate to the coming event can help prepare the child and evoke a sense of wonder. One way to start is to find a little shelf or table that becomes the seasonal or festival table, where one can put objects of nature pertaining to the season, images one finds, crafts and anything that helps create the mood of the festival. For example, the table cloth can be changed to different colours according to the season, in autumn one can collect branches or leaves, in the spring and summer, fresh flowers and in winter one can create a little winter scene.
Carnation Lily, Lily, Rose
by John Singer Sargent
"He, who works with his hands,
is a workman.
He, who works with his hands and his head,
is a craftsman.
He, who works with his hands and his head and his heart, is an artist."
Francis of Assisi [1]
[1] Quoted from the Stockmar website: http://www.stockmar.de/index.php?language=en
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