Celebrating Festivals with Children
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.
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Table of Contents:
Foreword -- The Seasonal Nature Table -- Creating a seasonal nature table -- A deeper understanding of the nature table -- The child's relationship to the nature table -- Winter -- Advent and Christmas -- Creating the mood ourselves -- Preparation with children -- Making an Advent wreath -- Decorating the room for Advent -- Advent calendars -- Moss gardens -- Advent singing -- Advent spiral (or garden) -- St Nicholas -- Children at transition age - from wonder to guessing -- Advent activities -- The Christmas play -- Christmas in kindergarten -- Christmas at home -- The Twelve Holy Nights and Epiphany -- Creating the mood ourselves -- Epiphany with children -- Looking back -- Carnival -- Preparation with children -- Carnival day -- Spring -- Easter -- Creating the mood ourselves -- Preparing for Easter -- The Easter hare -- Easter eggs -- Further Easter activities -- Easter at home -- Celebrating Easter in kindergarten -- Between Easter and Whitsun -- Whitsun -- Preparing for Whitsun -- Celebrating Whitsun in kindergarten -- Summer -- St John's and Summertime -- Creating the mood ourselves -- St John's and summer with children -- St John's Day in kindergarten -- Summer Festival -- Preparing for the summer festival -- Celebrating the summer festival -- Farewell Festival (for children going to big school) -- Preparing for the farewell festival -- Celebrating the festival with parents -- Autumn -- Harvest Time -- Creating the mood ourselves -- Activities with children -- The harvest festival -- Michaelmas -- Creating the mood ourselves -- The Michaelmas festival -- Lantern Time -- Halloween -- Martinmas -- The lantern festival -- Thanksgiving -- Preparing in kindergarten -- Birthdays -- Creating the mood ourselves -- Celebrating birthdays in kindergarten -- Small birthday presents -- Birthdays at home -- 'Heavenly birthday' -- Afterword -- Endnotes -- Bibliography and Further Reading.
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