Advent for Children

Jaffke, Freya

Gryphon House

The toys surrounding a child during the first five years are of great importance -- they awaken the imagination and stimulate creativity. Out of her long experience as a kindergarten teacher, Freya Jaffke has numerous suggestions and plans for making imaginative and high-quality toys, including wooden boats, log trains, doll's furniture, rag dolls, puppets, and soft animals.

Toymaking With Children

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Floris Books

Rhythm and repetition, together with example and imitation, are pillars on which early learning is based. Freya Jaffke applies these simple principles in practical and sensible ways. She describes children's play in a Steiner-Waldorf kindergarten setting, and provides tried and tested advice on this important stage of development. This book includes sections on Planning the day; Festivals; Rhythms; Materials; Educating the Will; Imagination; Spontaneous and Planned Play; Example and imitation of adults; Stages of development; From crawling to contrariness; Work and play; Craft and handicraft; Creating a protective environment; Hyperactive and inactive children.

Work and Play in Early Childhood

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

The toys that surround children during their first five years are essential tools for awakening imaginations and creativity. From many years of experience as a kindergarten teacher, Freya Jaffke makes helpful suggestions for adults who wish to select age-appropriate toys for children. She also shows how to make a variety of toys. There are sections on the meaning of play, stages of play, outdoor play, and how to help children play. 
This greatly expanded edition is an excellent handbook for all parents of young children.

The toys that surround children in their early years can have a profound effect on the development of their skills, creativity, and imagination. Freya Jaffke, an experienced kindergarten teacher, explores the nature of children’s play and shows how different toys are suitable for particular ages. 
 The book has instructions for making a wide variety of toys, from simple knotted animals and play cloths, to a dollhouse, play store, puppets, boats, trains, and various dolls. The step-by-step instructions are clear, fully described, and illustrated. 
 Parents and teachers will find inspiration and helpful guidance in this practical handbook.

Activities with unspun sheep's wool, also known as magic wool, offer a wide range of creative possibilities for both children and adults. In this book Dagmar Schmidt and Freya Jaffke combine their talents and experience, and show how to create beautiful pictures, as well as table-top scenes featuring figures and animals. They explain the process of carding and dyeing unspun wool to make magic wool. They focus on making pictures with wool, including scenes from several well-known fairy tales and festivals, before showing how to make simple dolls and animals, building up to an entire nativity scene. Detailed instructions, diagrams and color photographs are provided throughout.

Magic Wool: Creative Pictures and Tableaux with Natural Sheep's Wool

Schmidt, Dagmar

In this thoughtful book, Freya Jaffke describes festival celebrations in relation to child development in the first seven years. She considers in detail the main festivals throughout the year: Easter, Whitsun, St John's, starting school, harvest, Michaelmas, lantern time, birthdays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas, Epiphany and carnival. Drawing on many examples, she shows how we can celebrate festivals with children at home and in kindergarten in a meaningful way. Every festival is prefaced with a deeper contemplation for adults, before considering preparations with children, followed by the actual organization of the festival -- with games, craft activities and decorations, stories, songs, poems and the seasonal nature table."

Celebrating Festivals with Children

Religion & Spirituality

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Rudolf Steiner Pr

An unusual and imaginative how-to book provides detailed instructions, precise illustrations, and numerous suggestions for helping parents, as well as young chidren, create toys from readily available materials

Making Soft Toys (English and German Edition)

Arts & Photography

Celestial Arts

WECAN is delighted to be able to present one of Freya Jaffke’s wonderful German-language resources in English for the first time. With games for indoors and outdoors, building skills and dexterity as well as for the pure joy of play, this small but rich collection will soon be an essential part of every early childhood educator’s toolkit.

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Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America

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Advent for Children

Toymaking With Children

Work and Play in Early Childhood

Toymaking With Children

Toymaking With Children

Magic Wool: Creative Pictures and Tableaux with Natural Sheep's Wool

Celebrating Festivals with Children

Work and Play in Early Childhood

Making Soft Toys (English and German Edition)

Play With Us!