Tuesday is Sprouts Day

Kiwi and I have been attending the Sprouts program at our local Waldorf school.  It is a one day a week "mom" and me program but we have Dads, Grandmas, an Aunt and Nanny in our class too. I snapped a few pictures before everyone arrived this morning.

I think Kiwi is wondering where all of her friends are, she gets so excited when I say we are going to "school".

This is where we all sit for snack time, and then the parents stay here to craft toys for our children while the children have free play in the classroom.

This weeks nature table, it changes every week and it is the first place Kiwi goes when she arrives in the classroom, usually picking a toy off of it to keep with her for the day.  Today she carried around a fairy with her.

A few of the toy shelves, filled with beautiful natural, often handmade toys.

The first class we made these little treasure bags for the kids to add their treasures they find on their nature walks, Kiwi's currently is filled with river rocks she found.

Today we finished up the babies we started last week and had a naming ceremony for them at the end of class.  It was very sweet to watch the dad's lovingly sew their children dolls.

The teacher always introduces the toy we are going to make in the stories she tells at story time and then the kids get to watch the parents craft them.  It is very sweet to watch each child receive the toy they watched their parent make.

In Keeping with my "Grain A Day Challenge" today we had butternutsquash, apple, cinnamon, barley  porridge and some strawberries because barley is the grain of the day and red is today's color.