One of the nice practices typical at a Waldorf school is family visits. I, as the classroom teacher, visit each family of my students in order to get to know my student and their family better. It's fascinating to see the child in his/her home environment, with siblings, etc. I also like to note if the child has his/her own room, what his/her favorite toy is, etc.
At a recent family visit I got to play a fun sock game :). It was called Socken Zocken. There was a little monster, but I'm not sure what role he would normally play, because this family had already eliminated him in the house rules.
In any event, the game reminded me of SET. There were four colors and three options per sock. The color of the upper rim, the color of the body of the sock and the color of the heel/toe could either be red, yellow, green or blue. The goal was to find exact matches.
There were also clothes pins which we assigned in the following way. 1 for 5-8 matches, 2 for 9-11 matches, 3 for 12+ matches. We played multiple rounds and decided that with each clothespin we could pin one pair of socks.
The pinned pairs we could keep and the rest we put back in the middle for remixing. Then, after all of the clothespins were distributed (I think there were a dozen?) we could count how many each person had and the person with the most won.
The second reason for the title is my latest project. I've been wanting to make socks such as these for quite a while, leaned on the tabi (split-toed socks) that are traditionally worn in Japan with geta (platform flipflops).
Our floors are often cold and I get tired of the floors stealing my heat through my feet so I wear my flipflops..but then I either have to wear them barefoot or squish socked feet into them...
F has several socks that have such large holes in the heels that the repair of said socks wouldn't leave much room for F's feet. However, I figured I could sew them closed for my smaller feet and split the toes. And it worked!
And I realize they're fairly funny looking (they remind me of Ninja Turtle feet...) but the need is now met and my feet are warmer and happier.
At a recent family visit I got to play a fun sock game :). It was called Socken Zocken. There was a little monster, but I'm not sure what role he would normally play, because this family had already eliminated him in the house rules.
In any event, the game reminded me of SET. There were four colors and three options per sock. The color of the upper rim, the color of the body of the sock and the color of the heel/toe could either be red, yellow, green or blue. The goal was to find exact matches.
There were also clothes pins which we assigned in the following way. 1 for 5-8 matches, 2 for 9-11 matches, 3 for 12+ matches. We played multiple rounds and decided that with each clothespin we could pin one pair of socks.
The pinned pairs we could keep and the rest we put back in the middle for remixing. Then, after all of the clothespins were distributed (I think there were a dozen?) we could count how many each person had and the person with the most won.
The second reason for the title is my latest project. I've been wanting to make socks such as these for quite a while, leaned on the tabi (split-toed socks) that are traditionally worn in Japan with geta (platform flipflops).
F has several socks that have such large holes in the heels that the repair of said socks wouldn't leave much room for F's feet. However, I figured I could sew them closed for my smaller feet and split the toes. And it worked!
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