Showing posts with label children toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children toys. Show all posts

Sunday, August 10, 2014

A Most Wonderful Waldorf Toy and Art Store

 
Welcome to our shop, Waldorf on Etsy. 
 
Come spend time with us, browse our aisles, daydream and enter into a world of imagination. Make sure to bring the little ones.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/MOLICAAustralia
Our shop is filled with handcrafted toys and other items, inspired by Waldorf schools, and created from natural materials by crafters and artists from all over the world. 
 
Our shop exists online as the Waldorf on Etsy team.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/MOLICAAustralia
We are Waldorf parents, Waldorf teachers, homeschoolers, Waldorf alumni.  We are inspired by the beautiful, natural toys that are the tradition in Waldorf schools. 

We come from the mountains of California, the farms of New England, towns in the Midwest, as well as Australia, Kenya, the British Isles, Chile, France . . . We have more than 250 members from across the globe.
Our individual shops offer a plethora of toys that will inspire a child’s imagination, as well as other Waldorf inspired art and items.
 
 We have sweet, huggable Waldorf dolls in every style imaginable and huggable creatures as well. Our shops include lovely items for the nature table, like needle-felted animals, fairies and gnomes. 
 
Spend hours storytelling with finger puppets, peg dolls and fairy tale dolls. Our favorite materials are wool, wood, silk and cotton.
Some of our shops include wearables like crafting aprons, birthday crowns, and flower hairclips and headbands. 

We have soft and natural playthings for babies and Waldorf fairies and toys that teach children about nature, the seasons, the weather and the world.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/HinterlandMama
We are like so many parents who take a natural approach to parenting; most of us started out by making toys for our own children.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheFeltedGnomeKnows?ref=teams_post
 Please take some time to explore our individual shops and see how Waldorf has inspired and united us.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThreeBirdsBlue?ref=teams_post
Thank you for visiting please come again!

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Happy New Year!

The Waldorf on Etsy Team of artists and craftspeople wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year!  
Winter Fairy from Peach Creations
January is full of the birthdays of many wonderful people who have enriched our lives.  People like Martin Luther King Jr., Woflgang Mozart, Joan Baez, Anne Bronte and Lewis Carroll.
Did you know that Charles Perrault, a Frenchman born in January over 300 years ago collected folk talks and wrote them down in a book called, Tales of Mother Goose?

January is a great month to snuggle up with your kids and read some fairy tales together.    A fun activity for both parents and children is to get out paper and pencil, crayons or paint and create pictures from of the stories you just read together. 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/127568857/12-jumbo-triangular-pencils?ref=related-0
Another fun activity is dressing up and acting out some of the scenes from these stories.  Or using little peg dolls or finger puppets to do the same.

Peace and Prosperity to you in 2014!

The idea to celebrate the birthday of Charles Perrault as well as some of the play ideas are from:  
The Early Childhood Teachers Almanack by Dana Newmann - it's a great book full of activities for the whole year to enrich your child's life!

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Yelena

Today we welcome Yelena Beskrovni, owner and artist of the Waldorf on Etsy shop, Yelena's Anthroposophical Toys.

About Myself
I studied pedagogy in Ukraine, but in those days I was yet to hear anything about Waldorf.  However, even then I felt that there must be a better method to bring up children than the modern factory-like grade system.  One day I heard about anthroposophy and I was instantly hooked.
 
Later I moved to Israel and brought with me the love for Waldorf education and the desire to help children benefit from its teachings.  I started working in a non-Waldorf kingergarten.  At first the management was skeptical about Waldorf, but when they saw that children were becoming much more open, trusting and caring, they warmed up to anthroposophy and Waldorf ideas. 

How Did I Start Making Toys?
 
I've always wanted to make toys.  I took lessons and discovered just how wonderful the process of making one really is.  I believe that every doll I make has its own soul - the pose it takes while I make it, the way its head is turned, all make it unique. 

What Is Special About My Toys?
I make my dolls only from natural materials.  I use high quality merino wool (and occasionally mohair) and only natural dyes. It's very important to me not to expose the children to any harmful materials or mass-manufactured elements.
In addition to the toys in my shop I also make toys for the kindergarten I work in.  I love to see how the children play with them, use them to enrich their fantasy and learn about the world.  My toys are durable, stable and washable - they must be because every day  I see how the children enjoy chewing and bending the toys when they play.  It gives me great pleasure to know that my toys help children in addition to being fun to play with. 
 Come visit my shop
Thank you, Yelena Beskrovni