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As mending clothes becomes more popular in relation to the upsurge in environmentally sustainable fashion practices, Hikaru Noguchi's cult darning guide arrives in its first ever UK edition, making the basic techniques easy to grasp for crafters and non-crafters.

Here are four simple steps for decluttering, quieting, and soothing family dynamics so that children can thrive at school, get along with peers, and nurture well-being.

This comprehensive, well illustrated book gives the confidence to produce a unique, handcrafted toy from natural materials.

Reflexes, Movement, Learning & Behaviour covers an area of education and emotional wellbeing that tends either to be overlooked or to fall between professional domains. It provides information that helps parents, teachers, and other professionals to understand what lies behind the underachieving children and adults who suffer from balance-related anxiety disorders.The method fills a yawning gap in "the system," which often fails to recognize underlying physical factors in underachievement, behavioural, and emotional problems. Identifying some of the mechanics involved is the first stage in moving from victimhood to being able to live with a problem and, in many cases, overcome it. This helps parents and teachers to understand children better, introduce more effective coping strategies when needed, and ideally correct some of the underlying problems, enabling children and adults to become more resilient and flexible in response to stress and to realize their real potential.Educators, learning professionals, child psychologists, doctors, movement specialists and parents will find this book to be an indispensable and unique resource.

A rich treasury of seasonal stories and songs, natural crafts and outdoor games, animal, tree and plant lore, wild food recipes, meditations and ceremonies

What is it about these knitted animals that captures children's imaginations? Making Knitted Animals offers an enchanting collection of animals to knit with soft wool and natural materials--ducklings, teddy bears, lambs, piglets, a handsome rooster, and more. These twenty projects can be knitted easily using odds and ends of wool from recycled garments or left over from other knitting. Many of these projects can be completed in an hour or two. Making Knitted Animals is ideal for helping children to develop new skills and their imagination, as well as for knitters looking for fresh ways to reduce their yarn stash!

The twelfth Findus title from Hawthorn Press. This amusing story with full colour illustrations is ideal for 2-6 year olds, and for older children to practise reading aloud.''The characters are quirky and original, and the illustrations are absolutely delightful ¿ I can''t recommend them highly enough.''Philip Pullman

Ron Jarman believes there is a maths genius in every child and adult. Educators can use this comprehensive resource to teach math with imagination, laying the foundations for life. This resource helps educators and learners develop confidence. It has been time tested for over 50 years by the author. Drawing number work from everyday life stimulates children's interest. Ron shows how children can easily grasp math principles, so that educators are relieved of endless worksheets. Uniquely, Ron draws on Pythagoras, the ancient Greeks and Rudolf Steiner for re-imagining the vital importance of mathematical learning for human growth. Chapters include an overview of the Waldorf Math Curriculum, math and personal development, math and education. Uniquely, Ron unpacks what engages children at different stages of development. Chapters then cover the math learning journey from Grades 1 to 8, with tips, worked examples, exercises, questions and diagrams.

Findus the talking cat challenges Pettson to join him as he runs, jumps, and clambers around the farm. Pettson tries to keep up . . . with comical results. However, there is one thing that he is very good at! This brightly illustrated book is aimed at readers from 2 to 6 years, but will be enjoyed by all. The Findus series follows the adventures and misdemeanors of the mischievous Findus the Cat and Farmer Pettson, along with their muckle friends. As they plant, forage, fish, discover, and get up to all sorts of mayhem, we can explore with them the ups and downs of friendship, fights, and forgiveness. Alongside the vibrant storylines, the Findus books approach personal and social issues that the characters learn to overcome with good humor and hilarious playfulness.

One day Pettson brings home a rooster, who stops Findus playing with the hens, and makes too much noise crowing. Findus is unhappy and his ears are aching, but what can he do?

The 4th in this series from the well-loved Swedish author/illustrator, featuring Findus the cat and farmer Pettson, who live in a red farmhouse in the Swedish countryside. A quirky and amusing story for ages 3+. *Also appeared in March Buyer's Notes*

The Well Balanced Child is a passionate manifesto for a "whole body" approach to learning which integrates the brain, senses, movement and play.

Brimming with stories, poems, activities, things to make, and songs, All Year Round offers a friendly guide to the seasonal round of festivals. Helpful drawings and diagrams illustrate this practical book. It contains a wealth of experience that can help families find their own way around the year.

Join Pettson and Findus and be inspired by the exciting activities and experiments they get up to throughout the year. Beautifully brought to life by Sven's ingenious illustrations, this book suggests crafts and activities using what nature has to offer--make bird food and grow seeds; create pretty necklaces and fun toys; build a mini composter; measure the wind and rain; make a beautiful ice lantern.Learn how you can help animals and plants by collecting, fixing, crafting, building, exploring, and baking. By creatively using things from around the house and garden, anyone can discover how much of what surrounds us every day can be reused and recycled to have more fun outdoors. The activities in this book are fun, climate-friendly, and affordable!A Year with Fidus is an updated and extended second edition of the popular Findus, Food and Fun. Brimming with Sven Nordqvist's ingenious illustrations, this is a craft and activity book that will get young people up and active.

Here is a toolkit for farmers and growers about tried and tested agroecological methods for transforming industrial food growing into a resilient agricultural revolution. The four challenges of climate change mitigation and adaptation, offsetting biodiversity loss and producing enough good food for a growing population are identified. The author uses the case study of her Huxhams Cross Farm to show how dead soil was transformed into a thriving fertile land, drawing on a toolkit of biodynamic, organic, agroforestry, regenerative, agroecological and permacultural methods. The principles, methods and techniques of each approach are explained concisely, with illustrative case studies of successful examples and follow up resoources such as film references. The book concludes with the Huxhams Cross Farm case study with research evidence, reviewing the extent to which the four challenges are tackled successfully by the Toolkit; how the resilient farming revolution can be brought about by food choices, policy, tackling barriers such as land access, the psychology of scarcity and how to build farmer capacity for the resilient food growing transition.

Colour Dynamics II is informed by Aristotle, Rudolf Steiner, and Goethe¿s colour research. This is a useful resource for art students, painters, teachers, art therapists and interior designers. It offers a vivid approach to colour theory that will renew the way you see and can then paint from the heart of each colour.

Creative Form Drawing with Children: Workbook 2 is a form-drawing resource for teachers working with ages 10 to 12. It is designed to be used with the Waldorf curriculum of classes four and six. It will be valuable, as well, for homeschooling parents using the Steiner/Waldorf approach as their core basis.Creative form drawing helps children develop eye-hand coordination, spatial orientation, observations skills, confident movement, drawing skills, as well as the foundations of handwriting.Originally developed by Rudolf Steiner, creative form drawing is widely used in Steiner/Waldorf schools to enable healthy child development and learning.

Why is it that Waldorf dolls have so few facial features? What is it about a doll that captures the imagination of a child, as wellas adults, everywhere in the world? Making Soft Dolls answers these questions and highlights the power of dolls for therapeutic applications--recognizing that soft dolls aren't just for children.From the simplest rag-doll to curly-haired characters, this book gives straightforward instructions, a guide to buying doll materials, and repurposing materials you already have on hand.A lovingly handmade doll makes the perfect gift, and these dolls are easy to make. A personalized, bespoke doll will be much loved for generations.

This book is an essential guide for anyone interested in the popular craft of needle-felting. Whether you are completely new to needle-felting or an experienced felter, this book has something to offer, from precise instructions to creative inspiration.

Making the Children's Year, with colour illustrations and new projects that bring it up to date, it will appeal to a new generation of people keen to engage children in creative play, the seasons and the joy of handcrafting.

This imaginative exploration into living with soul is based of Rudolf Steiner's research into the senses, and offers a lucid introduction to spiritual psychology.

Keeping the vegetable garden safe from the farm animals proves a hard task for Findus and Pettson.

Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour brings together the fruits of Susan Perrow's work in storymaking. It is richly illustrated with lively anecdotes drawn from parents and teachers who have discovered how the power of story can help resolve a range of common childhood behaviours and situations such as separation anxiety, bullying, sibling rivalry, nightmares and grieving.