Ingredients: 3 mugs of strong white flour 500 mls of milk 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 3 tbs clear honey 3 tbs golden syrup 1 pack dried strawberries 3 drops vanilla essence 1 small beaten egg for glazing Soft brown sugar for sprinkling Wash and cut in half the Strawberry’s. Mix the strawberries and flour […]
Ten days after ascension we celebrate ‘White Sunday’ (so named because people were often baptised at this time and wore white at their baptism) WHITSUN or PENTECOST. This is the festival of Community, when the Disciples, gathered and all shared a common experience, a bonding together. In the Waldorf celebration of this festival with children […]
Throughout history cultures have employed rituals that reflect the patterns of nature and mark transitions for individuals or groups. All around the world in Waldorf schools the daily, weekly, and yearly rhythms infuse the life of the school. The purpose of each school´s festival life is to bring the community together and enrich the soul […]
Planting a wish, visualisation. I find visualisation really important. If I have a clear picture of where I am going it’s much easy to get there. Someone told me once you would set off driving on the motorway without knowing where you were going would you? Our life is just like that. The beginning of […]
Forty days after Easter comes the festival of ASCENSION when Christ was taken up into the clouds and left the realm of the Earth. Now he becomes the lord of the Universe and of the elements. His being radiates down to the Earth. Something of the quality of this time we can hold in our […]
By celebrating the passage of the seasons through art, music and story, we strengthen our connection to the rhythms of nature. I have written down a few of the other traditions and crafts you might enjoy at this stage of the wheel of the year. May Baskets A lovely craft idea is for children to […]
Tra La, it’s May, the lusty month of May That cheery month when everyone goes blissfully astray. It’s time to do a shocking thing or two. Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks, Everyone makes divine mistakes! The lusty month of May. ~ Queen Gwenevere sings in Camelot May Day, 1st of May […]