Felt Fairy Daffodils

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Fairy felt daffodils 🌼

So this morning and afternoon whilst the little one was playing I made some fun little felt fairy daffodils for our perpetual seasonal display. They are quick and easy to make and look so sweet and here’s how you can make some (see my stories for a video of them in situ which I couldn’t fit here.

You will need:

Yellow felt (the same or contrasting yellow)

Green felt for leaves

Scissors

Thread

Florist wire

1. Freehand cut a five petal flower, then a small square around 1cm wide and deep this is your petals and trumpet.

2. Cut a small slit in the centre of the flower

3. Roll the felt square as tight as you can at one end and stitch to stop it unravelling. Tie off but don’t cut the needle and thread loose.

4. Pass the needle through the hole in your petals and pull the trumpet through slightly so the end you sewn is now at the back of the flower.

5. Stitch to secure, tie off trim loose thread tails.

6. Snip some florist wire about an inch long than your intended thread, insert it through the front and middle of the trumpet and through the back, folding the end over so it does not pass all the way through.

7. Cut leaves if you wish and wrap them around the stem, wrap them with a little more florist wire and use your pliers to compress the wire and fix it in place.

These can of course be added to crowns and other crafts and look so cheery and pretty! I’ll be adding a highlight with my perpetual seasonal table so for more crafts like this make sure you keep an eye out ☺️

Nettle Soup and Rolls

For me Waldorf Education is so much about celebrating the earth and our unique connection to it. It’s really about allowing our inner souls to experience the world fully with our feet planted firmly in the rich earth we call our home.... over the past year as a family we have become more secular (and I have struggled with this as someone who has always found my identity in my ‘faith) I have read and deepened my knowledge and passion in this world through the wisdom and stories of indigenous people (at home and afar) this knowledge along with some of Steiner’s writings has had a profound effect on my experience of being part of nature, part of this world. Of how it gives when cared for, when respected without effort, without toil.

It’s amazing isn’t it, how much modern life and living has removed us from ‘knowing’ the earth.

Of knowing it’s sustenance, it’s remedies, it’s power to nourish and heal. This is knowledge where I live, which started dying out with my Nanna in the post war era and even now when I talk to some people even about picking the blackberries from my garden or local walks in autumn, I’m referred to as being ‘a little hippy or crazy’.

We foraged nettles for the first time as a family on our walk Sunday, when I announced to the children we will be making nettle soup and rolls my announcement with exception to the little one was met with a face of....’Really?’.

So we got on with the work of preparing the soup and rolls.

They came out delicious, and as the children tucked into them for lunch yesterday their faces were a picture of pleasant surprise. Nature won, and shown them how from even the humblest places and unlikeliest of plants, you can make a nutritious meal!

We don’t NEED to forage to eat this day and age, but we SHOULD! We should share the joys and sustenance of the wild untamed earth with our children for them to carry forward into future generations. We should bring back that connection and knowledge that modern life has set aside.

If you don’t forage please do try it! My advice would be to start simple, to get a good book LOCAL TO YOU (images help) if you are in the U.K. I recommend @wildfooduk and to enjoy the process!

Perpetual Seasonal Table

🌱 Perpetual seasonal table 🌱

So I don’t think our seasonal table is going to be quite the same again.... ❤️

This afternoon I finished a project I’ve had going on for a while and was determined to get done for this month, our new felted perpetual seasonal display.

Now I’ve wanted to make something which we can make things for and add to as the year goes on but it was missing something...then I was inspired by something I saw on the wonderful squares of @atelier_margriet_kraan. Margriet had posted a display she had done with Mother Earth and some root children using coconut shells as little hiding holes for them... and I realised how adaptable this could be for the base of a seasonal table. (Please go give the wonderful Margriet a follow as she is such an amazing artist)

The thing I love about this table is how we can hide animals and all manner of magical things as the seasons go on, we can conceal them, we can add decorations, flowers leaves etc to the branches to reflect the seasons Two of the coconut shells I have made to be removed, so little jars with poses of flowers can be concealed and seem as if they are growing from the felted world we create together. We will wet felt pieces of felt for leaves and wildflower meadows for snow as winter arrives to sit on top

I am so so pleased with it! It’s going to be a wonderful source of amazement and joy as the year goes on. I will carefully make and store little trinkets and decorations for it to be brought out year after year.

So here is April’s table, complete with our wax raindrops myself and the little one made today!