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

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...

“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...

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

Prep, prep, prep those kits! I’m preparing to send home a simple sashiko flute case project for my Second graders. As we have been online...

Yes. I want to share one of my favorite thoughts with you, as we handwork teachers enter new and un-chosen territory: teaching online as...

NO. Can it help? Yes. Knitting, or most any other handwork activity which requires rhythmical repetitive movements will promote the...

This year has been filled with many losses. But there is so much beauty and abundance to be found in nature and in our communities....

Here is an inspiring video from our colleague Malou Medrano in The Philippines. Not only are these masks beautiful, but the symbols and...

During our first quarter in this new Covid-19 school year we have had our handwork lessons online. With all things new there are always...

Last weekend was our first session of our first Professional Development series. It is such a grace to work collaboratively, as we truly...

I have a question, and am eager to hear as many responses as possible. I was asked to give a talk on “The Value of Handwork” recently to...

Patty Urda from the Detroit Waldorf School shares this beautiful Diego Rivera lithograph “Open Air School” (1932). it is part of the...

The discussion in today's Saturday handwork teachers' zoom led us into the world of color, animism, shamanism, and the question of what...

Yesterday we lost one of the brightest lights our nation has ever known, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She lived her life in service, for her...

Joanna Hody, handwork teacher at Raleigh Oak Charter School in Raleigh, NC shares her well crafted lesson on nature mandalas. Nature...

The Otomi people are believed to be the earliest inhabitants of the central plateau of Mexico, predating even the Nahuatl speaking...

Following a knitting pattern requires children to use all four math processes; addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Over...

This is a personal post, which may or may not reflect others’ views, but may find some resonance in each of us engaged in Waldorf...

Deepali Kosta Kabi shared her daughter’s reflections on dolls and teddy bears in her childhood. From Shatakshi Kabi: As a kid, I always...