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How to make a simple Waldorf lantern

This is a sponsored post

The idea was for the playgroup children to make their own Waldorf lanterns this year.

We made a good start, with most of the children colouring their watercolour paper and painting them in olive oil. The oil does a very special ~ and I think magical job ~ it turns the watercolour paper semi translucent. Allowing the candlelight to shine through ?

Then we had a public holiday and many of us ended up with colds. So Max and I ended up finishing the lanterns ready for our playgroup Winter festival. And I thought I would share how *smile*

You will need

beeswax crayons
watercolour paper
olive oil
children’s wool
paint brush
scissors
hole punch
beeswax tealight candles

And away we go…

You can also use watercolour paint if you prefer *wink*

We tend to leave our watercolour paper to dry overnight, and then continue the project the next day.

You can learn how to make a wool twistie here *grin*

And there you have it, beautiful simple Waldorf lanterns!

Just add a beautiful beeswax tealight candle and you are ready for a Winter lantern walk.

We love using pure beeswax candles from Queen B in our lanterns (and in the house) Their scent is simply devine!

This post was sponsored by the beautiful shop, Dragonfly Toys. An Australian based Waldorf inspired shop which aims to keep the magic of childhood alive.

And Dragonfly Toys is offer 15% off for friends of Happy Whimsical Hearts at their store until 8 August 2016. Just use the code HAPPYHEARTS at the checkout.

You can see our last playgroup Winter festival here, as well as our Spring festival here.

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Blessings, Kelly

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July 11, 2016 by Kelly

A rainbow treasure hunt

Max helped me set up a rainbow treasure hunt for Ruby’s 5th birthday party.

We like to keep our birthday parties fairly simple, with a couple of games, some mostly healthy food and time to simply play.

For our rainbow treasure hunt we used:

red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple children’s wool
beautiful wooden beads in the same colours
a wooden tree stump that has nails in it for making twisties
string for making necklaces

We placed the wooden tree stump to the side of the lawn. Then we tied a ball of yarn to each nail and ran it out into the garden.

One went up the cubby house slide, one went into the sandpit, one went to the mud kitchen and so on until they were all used up.

At the end of each ball of yarn was a bowl of beads, the same colour as the yarn. The yellow yarn leading to the yellow beads and so on.

The rainbow treasure hunt was a nice way to ‘break the ice’ at the party since some of the children didn’t know each other.

It was lovely to watch them happily ran along the yarn lengths to find the treasure at the end!

Once they had found all the treasure I gave them string to make a rainbow necklace.

The string was a little tricky to thread, so the parents mostly ended up making the necklaces.

If I was to do it again, I would sticky tape an end so the children could more easily thread the beads on.

The children took their pretty rainbow necklaces home instead of a party bag *smile*

The other game we played at Ruby’s party was pass the parcel, with pretty gems inside. And otherwise the children played.

For more birthday party inspiration you can see Max’ 6th birthday party here and Ruby’s last party here.

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Blessings, Kelly

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July 4, 2016 by Kelly