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Carol Palmer
Apr 6, 20183 min read
Rediscovering Ancient Inks
It’s walnut season here in New Zealand so my students have been visiting our walnut tree every morning to collect its fallen bounty and...
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Carol Palmer
Mar 24, 20183 min read
A Story of the History of Pompoms
My class have pompoms on the brain at the moment, I don't really know where the craze has come from, but I have a group of children who...
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Carol Palmer
Mar 9, 20183 min read
Meeting Our Own Fundamental Human Needs (Part 2)
In a post last December I wrote about our plans to produce all of our own food for this years school camp from scratch. Properly from...
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Carol Palmer
Feb 23, 20184 min read
Measuring Your Treasure
Often in schools we are given odd balls of yarn with no labels, and we therefore don't know what size it is or what fibre it is made...
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Carol Palmer
Feb 9, 20184 min read
A Story of The History of Felt
As promised in the Felt Balls Lesson post, here is the story I tell when introducing felt to children for the first time. I like to give...
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Carol Palmer
Jan 26, 20183 min read
Intention Hearts for a New Year
The New Zealand school year is just about to begin and as I was wondering what activities I should offer the children to keep them going...
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Carol Palmer
Jan 13, 20182 min read
Pottery Heaven
It probably feels hard for those of you battling heavy snow and mega storms to believe, but down here in New Zealand we are still on...
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Carol Palmer
Dec 29, 20173 min read
The Story of Peggy Squares
Once my students have grasped the basics of knitting, I encourage them to think about ways they can use their new skill to help others. ...
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Carol Palmer
Dec 15, 20172 min read
Workshops Scheduled!!!
Ladies and gentlemen, I have, what is for me, and hopefully for some of you, some very exciting news: I have my first two Montessori...
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Carol Palmer
Dec 1, 20173 min read
Using Our Hands, Hearts And Minds To Satisfy Our Fundamental Human Needs.
Handwork fulfills any number of roles as a part of Cosmic Education. In the Elementary, one of these roles is to pick up where Practical...
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Carol Palmer
Nov 18, 20175 min read
Making Felt Balls - Fibre Alchemy!
Wet felting is a little bit like magic. You take some loose fluff, rub it with some warm soapy water and almost instantly, you have a...
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Carol Palmer
Nov 4, 20173 min read
Should we be making our own tools?
Our school PTA has recently given me a very generous sum to update the Handwork supplies in each classroom. Aside from being tremendous...
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Carol Palmer
Oct 20, 20173 min read
Henna Hands for Diwali
This week Hindus all around the world will be celebrating the festival of Diwali. Our class thought it would be fun to use the...
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Carol Palmer
Oct 6, 20174 min read
Examining Our Textiles
Dr Montessori believed that if a child had a general understanding of the elements of the natural world, they could feel at home anywhere...
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Carol Palmer
Sep 22, 20174 min read
Exploring Looms
In my last post I shared the lesson I use to introduce the concept of weaving and get children thinking about types of weaving looms. In...
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Carol Palmer
Sep 8, 20175 min read
Introducing weaving
Once you have told The Story of the History of Wool, children will be keen to experiment with this beautiful fibre for themselves. I...
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Carol Palmer
Aug 25, 20175 min read
Great Stories and the History of Wool
As those of you in the Northern hemisphere begin your new school year your minds will all be turning to the Great Stories which set the...
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Carol Palmer
Aug 15, 20171 min read
Gratitude and Blessings
In all my excitement with the snowballing progress of my Handwork Album, I have overlooked something very important. It was pointed out...
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Carol Palmer
Aug 13, 20175 min read
One giant leap for Montessori Handwork
Reflections of Montessori teacher from New Zealand who traveled half way across the world to get a step closer to peace.
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Carol Palmer
Jul 27, 20174 min read
Finger Knitting - getting started with the simplest work of the hand.
Finger knitting is one of those things that you really only need to teach once – ever! Once a few children in your class know how to do...
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