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Do you want to know how we make Easter eggs in our kindergarten with maternal and infant children??
We have prepared a very complete tutorial so that you can do it at home.
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At the Waldorf school in Villafranqueza (Alicante) we are thirteen years old since we started teaching the training courses in waldorf pedagogy.
These courses have a duration of three years distributed in 30 weekends called modules or blocks. In them we cover the knowledge of the fundamentals of Waldorf pedagogy, as well as the study of the work methodology in early childhood and primary education. (more…)
Talc stone work is one of several arts and crafts subjects that our students are familiar with in their school days..
Talc stone, as it is a soft material, allows it to be worked with very simple tools such as sandpaper in its different thicknesses., reaching to the finest, the water sandpaper, with which the piece is polished.
Each child chooses a stone and with a stroke of sandpaper they are asked to remove the irregularities from the stone., until it has a smooth surface on each of the different faces that the stone has. A) Yes, in this way, without actually looking for something definite, the stone takes on a new shape.
Children love this job because of the beautiful results obtained. Through it creativity develops, fine motor skills and spatial imagination.
By means of talcum stone they can build: small sculptures, pendants, the decorative elements. Children become fascinated by "their stone" seeing the great changes that take place and the finish so pleasant that is achieved to the touch.
It is also a mineral that does not contain harmful substances and can be worked safely by children. The talcum powder that is extracted from it is commonly used in the cosmetic and pharmacy industries..
Modeling, woodcarving, talc stone work, and I work with copper
In Waldorf schools, manual work and handicraft subjects are given an important role within the whole teaching as a whole. This is based on the principle that these activities, in the background, they also develop skills that help structure their thinking: “He who knows how to move his fingers correctly also has flexible ideas and thoughts, and can penetrate into the essence of things ".
Thus manual activities prepare man to put his will into action even to think.
Among the activities carried out in the Waldorf school are: clay modeling, wood carving, talcum stone work, and copper work.
Deep interior experiences children receive through the completion of work in these workshops: expectation, disappointment, ira, resignation, meditation, surprise, new hopes, new efforts of will, intense joy in creative activity.
But emotional participation does not remain only on the psychic plane, but it penetrates to the physical, up to the fingers, fully participating both body and soul.