Spring is coming

Spring is coming, Spring is coming
Birdies build their nests
Weave together straw and feather 
Each are doing their best


Spring is coming, Spring is coming
Flowers are coming too;
Pansies, lilies, daffodilies,
All are coming through


....

Spring is coming, Spring is coming

All around is fair.

Shimmer, glimmer on the meadow,

Joy is everywhere.

Spring is coming, Spring is coming...


I sing it as I walk around and see crocuses and daffodils and the blossom trees are flowering now!






Check out the new Rhythm of the Home blog with new Spring articles and ideas. My favourite place for Waldorf inspired resources.


Happy Happy Spring to everyone!


http://rhythmofthehome.com/




Meanwhile at home, a bit of spring cleaning and a welcome spring nature table...


Next on my list:


collecting jars


painting jars and using the jars for


growing seeds, sprouting


wet felting Easter eggs


origami paper flowers

An early Spring puppet play

A simple puppet play I do at parent and child sessions 

I use simple objects like pine cones for trees and green dark green and light green scarves for grass/earth and blue scarf for sky

some wooden animals

Mother Earth puppet

and some root and  flower children

bits of bark, twigs, pussy willow

some flowers...any nature finding will do!

The Story of the Root Children
By Sibylle Von Olfers

Amended and shortened for puppet story time

Under the ground, deep in the earth among the roots of the trees, the little root-children were fast asleep all winter long.  They felt nothing of the biting wind, the cold snow or the stinging hailstorms.  They slept peacefully in their warm burrows.  They were dreaming of the sunshine in which they had played all through the summer.  And what wonderful dreams they were!

When at last winter came to an end and the sun began to melt the snow, Mother Earth came along with her candle to wake them up again.  

“Wake up, children,” she called kindly.  ”Time to get up now.  You’ve slept long enough.  Spring is coming and there’s work to be done.  I’ve brought you scissors, needles and thread and pieces of cloth so that you can all make new clothes.  Wake up!  As soon as you’re ready, I’ll unlock and open the doors up to the ground.”

The children yawned and stretched.  Then they jumped up merrily.  Hurray, spring is coming!

Mother Earth had pieces of lovely coloured cloth in her basket.  Each of the root-children chose her own colour to make a dress.  The Daffodil chose a bright yellow cloth, the wild rose a soft pink, and the poppy a bright orange.

Then they sat down in a cosy circle and began to work busily.  They cut, they sewed and pressed until everything fitted exactly.  And, as they worked, they sang all the spring songs that they knew. (sing second verse of “Spring is Coming”:  Spring is coming, Spring is coming, flowers are coming too, poppies, rosies, daffodilies, all are coming through! All are coming through)

As soon as they as they had finished making their new dresses, they went up to Mother Earth in a long procession.  Mother Earth looked over her spectacles in surprise when she saw the root-children coming so soon.

“Well, well, you have been quick,” she exclaimed, ” and how nice it all looks!”

Up above ground, the warm sun was already bringing out the new green leaves on the trees.

At last it was really springtime!  Mother Earth opened the door.  Then out into the lovely spring sunshine came the stately procession of root-children with their blades of grass and flowers.