Category: Play and Toys
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Spring Time Butterfly Craft
This craft activity is one that I have been putting together since last year, but with Spring upon us again, it felt like the right time to share it. This felt butterfly pairs beautifully with a transformation story about a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. The process of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly is a story…
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Self-Directed Play in the Waldorf Kindergarten
This post is one part of a series on how to incorporate 5 aspects of the Steiner kindergarten program into your Waldorf home. Today we will focus on self-directed play. For an overview of the 5 aspects, click here. Self-directed play or free play forms a key pillar of the Waldorf kindergarten program. Steiner often…
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10 Ways to Encourage Independent Play in Toddlers
A child absorbed in play is truly a wonderful thing. To see them transported into their own imaginative world and become oblivious to the world will never cease to amaze me. There are no rules, they can change character as they please and a ball which was rolling along the ground a moment ago, has…
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Open-Ended vs Close-Ended Toys
You may have heard of open-ended and close-ended toys, but what do these names actually mean? What are the benefits of open-ended toys? What are the differences between open-ended and close ended toys? Should you have only one type or both? Let’s find out! What are Open-Ended Toys? Open-ended toys have the ability to be…
The Steiner Connection 