In order to have an idea of what we do with the children during their free play, we offer a list of our business as usual, distributed seasonally. This is a kind of an annual calendar of co-creation with nature. Carried out at a certain time of nature they create a special mood and experience. We do not do anything artificial or we do not play, we live. We live in harmony with nature, with its breath, with its rhythms.
AUTUMN
- we collect leaves, flowers, bark and make small booklets – the herbarium, collages
- we make forest and moss dwellers out of moss, cones, bark, wooden sticks and other natural materials
- we do a variety of plants and paint aroma oils
- out of vegetables and fruits we do stamps and draw patterns on printed fabric
- make prints of leaves
- out of decorative little pumpkins we do rattles
- feathers of birds and fruits we use to do chatterbox
- we collect the cones in a variety of garlands
- we master various figures out of potatoes, sticks and feathers
- we weave baskets
- we paste a variety of leaves on long-frames, making them stained a “letter of Autumn”
- we cut and dry apples
- we salt cabbage
- we harvest food to feed the birds, we peel sunflower seeds
- we make fruit smoothie
- we cook jam and poured into jars, with hand-made decoration
- we squeeze fresh juice from fruits and vegetables
- we cook giant drink from berries and spices
- we compose herbal teas
- we peel pine cones, harvesting nuts
- we crack hazelnuts and walnuts with billets
- we craft out of shells
- we make dry bouquets of herbs and flowers
- out of cleaned soft tree roots we make the basis for mobiles, decorate them with garlands of fruits of various trees and shrubs
- we arrange glycerol bath for leaves, preparing them for crafts
- we gather garlands of autumn leaves
- we dry the herbs (mint, oregano, lavender) and fill with them out sleeping pads and linen puppets Dumochki
- we master the crown of oak leaves, horses, clothes for knights and princesses
- we make kites
- out of chestnuts we do dragons
- out of the hollow stems of angelica we master various tubular toys – sniffers, sprayers, quackers, snuffers, pipes …
- we hammer with billets grains mole them on manual mills in the flour, and bolt it
- we sew bags for flour
- we bake bread from the resulting flour, add into the dough the grain of sunflower, hazelnuts and dried fruits
- we collect seeds and plant seeds, dry them and fill with them our tactile bags, pads for gaming
- we sew grain-dolls
- we sew grain-balls
- we draw pictures with berries
- we master houses for walnut Dwarfs out of moss and twigs
- we make beads from berries of mountain ash, hawthorn, wild rose and corn to feed the birds
- we sew dwarfs and children’s raincoats with hoods and bells
- with watercolor paint we draw on wet paper, we dry it and wax it with oil
- we craft lanterns
- we make a necklace of felt
- we grow crystals
- we take mobile pictures with dwarfs
- we manufacture kaleidoscopes
- in a thin metal foil with coined holes we craft lanterns
- from dried plants we make stained glass
- we master turntables
- we weave mats on the framework of woolen threads for gnomes
- we knit simple toys of squares
- we master of horse on a stick
- we weave a whip
- we make puppets on a stick and a wooden spoon
- we harvest saw cut wood for games and activities for waxing, we polish them with sandpaper and wax
- we build houses-huts out of twigs and saw cuts
- we cut out gingerbread boards
- we craft out of sticks and saw cuts
- we make wrapping paper for postcards
- we weave cobwebs out of thin threads
WINTER
- we make toys out of papier-mache, wool and starch paste
- we collect a cotton garland on a Christmas tree
- we dry the slices of oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruits
- we make mobiles of goat willow twigs, sticks of cinnamon, anise, cloves and various fragrant citrus plants
- we cut out snowflakes and spirals
- out of straw we make Christmas stars and lights
- we collect from spruce, pine sprigs and juniperic holiday wreaths, decorate them with colored ribbons
- we glue stained glass of colored tracing paper
- we cut out of paper valances and paper dance
- we roll candles from honeycombs
- we pour holiday candles out of molten wax
- out of rods and oiled drawings we do pyramid-illumination
- on a snowy week make meringue, draw with semolina, paint patterns on window, crystallize branches of trees
- we clean from the shell nuts for squirrels
- we make pictures out of the painted not spun wool
- we roll beads made of salt dough and wool
- for Christmas carols we craft rattles
- we do felters, color them and embroider on them with gold thread and beads
- with wet felting we make multicolored mats for games
- we do lambs out of dry felting wool
- we make bird feeders and squirrels
- from cone firs, wax and seeds we make tasty treats for the birds
- we bake apples with cinnamon and other spices
- we prepare out of marzipan paste decorations for a gingerbread house
- we pour candy caramel
- we bake sweet cakes of gingerbread houses and master sweet
- we make different figurines of chocolate for the Christmas calendar
- we bake gingerbread cookies and Christmas Roe
- we brew herbal teas
- we craft instrument “the rain”
- we do the bar dolls, swaddle dolls
- we sew the bag-gourmet and paste on it patterns ou of color felt
SPRING
- we craft ships out of shells and paper
- out of corrugated paper and copper wires we master flowers-rosebuds
- we make stained glass our of colored tracing paper
- we fold paper birds
- we sow grass in small gardens
- we grow herbs in pots
- we make flower man and do care after him, pour out with watering pot, mow him
- we grow tulips and hyacinths in pots
- we decorate palm tree
- we paint the egs
- we mole flour and bake cakes, “Larks” cookies, bread suns – heath-hens
- we curl patchwork toy birds, bunnies, bears
- we make a doll-bell, a cross-doll
- we sew out of patchwork spring dolls and collect them on the wreath of birch twigs in round dance
- we make different mobiles hanging with birds, horses
- we sew a variety of balls
- we make toys out of thread pompons
- we weave patterns on the cross-shaped sticks
- we mend toys
SUMMER
- we weave wreaths and garlands of flowers
- we plant flowers, vegetables, herbs, take care of plantings
- we “curl” birches
- we make a pinwheel
- we work with clay on the potter’s hands and machine
- we produce handicrafts made of shells
- we do mobiles with bees, ladybirds and dragonflies
- we paint the smooth stones – pebbles, cover it with varnish
- we grow flowers, vegetables and herbs
- we saw wooden billets for construction recruitment
- we weave grass mats on the frames
- we clean the bark from twigs, harvesting it for weaving baskets, fences, frames and mobiles
- we craft of wire blowers for bubbles
- we bake “ladders”, “ears” and “crowns”
- we make fruit and berry drinks and jelly
- we do support-clearing under the plate, cutting the branches of trees in the circles and pasting them on a linen matting
- we decorate compressed bundles of ears
- out of straw we create a variety of toys
- we dry the herbs
- we salt cucumbers