I am teaching first grade this year at a Waldorf school (and I'm 3 weeks away from being done (!!!)). As my gifts for the students I painted their birthday cards.
In what I felt to be nice and Waldorf-y, I tried to pick a flower or fruit (in a biological sense of the word, i.e. nuts were included) that fit seasonally. Both nature and an awareness of the seasons are incorporated in the Waldorf way of doing things. (I've posted them chronologically.)
I painted flowers for the girls and fruits for the boys. I realize that was probably continuing with gender-norming, but they aren't going to avoid it completely. And I didn't just stick with pink and blue :), so I think I did all right.
Enjoy!
For this card I used some of the flowers at the school for my inspiration.
Here is one of the photographs the card was based on.
Here I included some of the sketching that I normally do to practice the form of the plant and decide on the layout. I am sure grateful for Google Images so that I don't have to be pulling these out of my imagination/memory!
**Sidenote about Germanness**: If you noticed some weird patchiness, I edited the names of my students out. Germans are very concerned with privacy--and I figured it can't hurt to be careful :) And, yes, my sister, A, just commented on nothing being private anymore..ah well. Germans still try.
Try finding a German house number or German license plate on Google Maps Street View...it won't work. In fact, they often just don't have street view.
In what I felt to be nice and Waldorf-y, I tried to pick a flower or fruit (in a biological sense of the word, i.e. nuts were included) that fit seasonally. Both nature and an awareness of the seasons are incorporated in the Waldorf way of doing things. (I've posted them chronologically.)
I painted flowers for the girls and fruits for the boys. I realize that was probably continuing with gender-norming, but they aren't going to avoid it completely. And I didn't just stick with pink and blue :), so I think I did all right.
Enjoy!
Snowdrops! (Schneeglöckchen) Some of the first flowers to come out, often, as the name implies, when there is still snow.
It's strawberry season in Germany! (which coincides with white asparagus season..the Germans love their white asparagus...I'll be posting about that soon too, I hope.)
Turns out crayons have a certain charm as well :)
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| (Amusingly/Embarassingly enough, this wasn't an intentional branching out, but rather a just-barely-saving-myself-from-embarassment and just-barely-saving-said-child-from-emotional-trauma-of-having-his-birthday-(card)-forgotten... *phew*) |
**Sidenote about Germanness**: If you noticed some weird patchiness, I edited the names of my students out. Germans are very concerned with privacy--and I figured it can't hurt to be careful :) And, yes, my sister, A, just commented on nothing being private anymore..ah well. Germans still try.
Try finding a German house number or German license plate on Google Maps Street View...it won't work. In fact, they often just don't have street view.
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