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WHY DO WE DO WHAT WE DO? What does this have to do with wooden spoons?

Michael Howard was a guest teacher at our Summer Handwork Teacher Conference, July 2021, and has written up and expanded his presentation...

Craft, Flow, and Cognitive Styles

Originally a talk to the Waldorf Handwork Educators Teacher Conference on the 15th of July, 2021. Watch a video here. Hopefully this is...

Questions, questions

Have you ever had a day when nothing seems to go right, when nothing seems interesting or engaging? I had one of those days recently. My...

Exciting review for our 1st grade handwork curriculum for homeschoolers and new teachers

We were so thrilled to read this reflection on our first grade handwork curriculum, we could not wait to share it with you! We were so...

Knitting Grannies

Preparing for our next conference, I’ve been thinking a lot about clothing, about how first impressions are made by clothing, how there...

Handwork Teacher Workload & Recommended Best Practices

Waldorf Handwork Educators has been working with the Fiber Craft Studio in New York to establish a Handwork Teachers’ Association to...

Who WHE Are - Waldorf Handwork Educators

The Wonder and Wisdom of Handwork was founded in 2013 for anyone who self-identifies as a teacher of handwork in a Waldorf setting. We...

Distance Learning Gifts & Challenges

“Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to...

Color and DEI in the Handwork Classroom

How do we welcome and affirm children of different cultural, social, racial, or ethnic backgrounds into our handwork classrooms? This...