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Waldorf Games Handbook for the Early Years: Games to Play and Sing with Children Aged 3-7

Valerie Baadh Garrett

This classic games book offers a standby resource for parents, teachers, forest school educators, and play leaders. The games are tried and tested. They draw on worldwide Steiner-Waldorf creative education, where a "child's work is their play." Child growth is explored and how this is helped by a rich treasury of action, finger, circle, clapping, beanbag, chasing, water, tumbling, story and singing games. There are both traditional favorites and also new games created to engage with digitally challenging behavior. Each game is clearly and simply described, with diagrams and drawings for how to play. The games' weaving of rhythms, movement, songs, stories, and pictures invites children into worlds of vibrant wonder. These games help children feel at ease in their bodies, build relationships, and enjoy playing.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Hawthorn Press
  • Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2021
  • Pages: 136
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.50in - 7.30in - 0.40in - 0.75lb
  • EAN: 9781912480265
  • Categories: Teaching - Subjects - Physical EducationSchools - Levels - Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & KinderActivity Books

About the Author

Baadh Garrett, Valerie: - Valerie Baadh Garrett is a movement artist, educator, and therapist working with people of all ages. She has worked in Waldorf Education, Spacial Dynamics(R) and Agile Aging, as well as teacher training in the U.S. and China.

Praise for this book

"Reminds us of the beauty and power of living song and movement. Nourishes children and adults alike as they share the music together."
--Joan Almon, Alliance for Childhood

"What a delightful collection! The wide range of games are described so clearly that it's easy to fund something to play with a lucky child or group of children. And then you'll want to play something else, juts because it so much fun to play and sing."
--
Rahima Baldwin Dancy
, author, You are Your Child's First Teacher

"Provides parents, nursery caregivers, and teachers with a valuable resource of enjoyable games for preparing children for life."
--Sally Goddard Blythe, author, The Well-Balanced Child

"A child must learn to live within a house of her own making,
To tour worlds she has never seen, without her home forsaking.
But what bridges realms within, without others have no name?
The answer is a shared delight, and is a child's game."
--Jaimen McMillan, Spacial Dynamics Institute