Category Archives: Cooking

How to Make Math Fun

Posted on by in Cooking, Math, Sofi, Uncategorized
In Waldorf education math for a first and second grader is a joyous experience. This continues through the lower grades with math being integrated into drawing, form drawing, art, hands-on activities, and handwork. However, as the children get older and the math becomes more challenging it becomes increasingly difficult to...
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Winter Snack for Wildlife Guests

Posted on by in Arts, Crafts & Handwork, Cooking, Wildlife Education, Winter
While the kids were out sledding yesterday I thought I would prepare them a surprise. I popped popcorn, sliced up some oranges and some apples, put some dried cranberries in a bowl and cut up bread into squares and put out a knife with a big jar of peanut butter....
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Easy Holiday Cookies

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These are great cookies to bring to any holiday party – starting at Thanksgiving and ending with New Year’s Eve! We often use this recipe to make different cookies for each day or each few days of Advent by creating different shapes or adding different flavors or toppings. These are so...
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What is an “Open Table”?

Posted on by in Christmas, Cooking, Healthy Meals, Modeling, Modeling, Thanksgiving
Today I took a look back in time. What were we doing on Thanksgiving five years ago? And how have things changed since then? What I discovered surprised me. Looking back I can see how what we did was very healing to our family as well as others and contributed...
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Essential Kitchen Tools for Kids

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Kids naturally love to “help” in the kitchen and I have found that by providing them with the proper tools that they can actually be helpful! These tools are fun for adults, too. They can often make simple meals into something more “fancy” without a lot of extra effort. My...
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Tears in the Classroom & A Poem

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Sometimes we plan the best lesson and get so excited anticipating the results in our class…and then it does not go as planned. This is what happened one day when we were shaping bread and my daughter burst into tears. It was unexpected and disappointing for me. What had I...
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Pumpkin Smoothie for Balance & Nutrition

Posted on by in Autumn, Cooking, Healthy Meals, Holistic Health, Kids Can Heal, Nutritional Healing, Temperament, Thanksgiving
Pumpkin Smoothies are one of my favorite autumn treats and the best part of them is that they are super healthy as well! They are filled with vitamins, minerals and even protein and calcium. When you drink a pumpkin smoothie you are helping your body balance in so many ways....
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Easy Pumpkin Pie

Posted on by in Autumn, Cooking, Thanksgiving
Every year somebody asks me to publish this recipe again. Ever since I discovered it my kids don’t even like the “regular” pumkin pie anymore! This is SOOOOO easy and tastes like a pumpkin pie with a thin crust – the recipe actually makes its own crust. Hope this helps...
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