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Living tales for the turning year — Waldorf-inspired homeschool learning guides for kindergarten through third grade, with seasonal storytelling, puppet performances, handcraft tutorials, rhymes, verses, and songs.

Bring imaginative, hands-on learning into your homeschool, classroom, forest school, or co-op. Explore seasonal festivals and beloved folktales, then choose the stories and activities that fit your children and the rhythm of your year.

A painted autumn cornfield where a barefoot boy in a golden crown carries a wooden sword and round shield at the head of a procession of children bearing a long green cloth dragon on poles, a small chapel on the hill behind.

Michaelmas

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A painted autumn lane at dusk, copper trees overhead and drifts of fallen leaves underfoot, two children walking away up the track with an armful of leaves lifted.

October

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A painted bare November wood in the late afternoon, a girl a little way along the path turning a beech leaf in her fingers with a feather and an acorn already gathered, a smaller child crouched over the leaf floor beyond her, mist softening the furthest trees.

November

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A painted cottage kitchen where a little black pot on the hearth overflows with golden porridge that pours across the floor and out into the village street, a girl stepping back with her hands lifted and her mother beside her.

Sweet Porridge

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A painted river in high summer where Lucia Zenteno sits combing the water back out of her long black hair with a mesquite comb, her iguana beside her, fish and otters streaming back into the riverbed while villagers watch with lowered heads.

The Woman Who Outshone the Sun

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A painted stable at night, the newborn child in a rough manger with the light rising out of him, Mary bending near and Joseph beyond, the ox and ass in shadow, shepherds arriving at the stable mouth and a great star low over the roof.

The First Christmas Light

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A painted deep snow scene where Turlutin, a small gnome in a pointed cap, sits at the foot of a snowy slope shaking with cold while a hare, a fox, a bird and a squirrel press close and a blanket of many coloured wool gathers around his shoulders.

Turlutin

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A painted stone tower room by lamplight, heaped straw turned to gold, a young woman risen from her spinning wheel with the spun thread looping around her and a cradle safe beside her, a small figure in a pointed cap stamping in the shadowed corner.

Rumpelstiltskin

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A painted winter field under a vast night sky where a barefoot girl in a thin shift stands with her arms open and her head tipped back as stars fall around her as bright coins, gathering in the shift she holds out.

The Star Money

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A painted spring forest edge at early morning where the youngest brother reaches up to take a small axe that hangs chopping a hollow pine by itself, a spade in his belt and a walnut in his fist, his two elder brothers climbing away up the path behind him.

Boots and His Brothers

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A painted birch forest in late summer, a great woven basket of pirozhki close in the foreground with a girl in a red kerchief folded inside it, and a good natured brown bear shouldering that basket along the path.

Mashenka and the Bear

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A painted blacksmith's forge in deep winter with the doors open to a white morning, a little grey pony standing patient with one hoof lifted, a small boy holding its halter and the smith bending at the anvil with a glowing shoe in his tongs.

The Little Grey Pony

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A painted cottage larder in late winter, a small mouse in an apron sweeping the hearth in the foreground while behind her a round grey cat stretches up to the crock of winter fat on a high shelf with one paw hooked over the rim.

Cat and Mouse

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A painted wooden bridge over a stream in spring spate, the great third billy goat close in the foreground with his horns lowered, the middle goat mid plank, the smallest already kicking up its heels on the far bank and a shaggy troll blinking out from the shadow beneath.

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

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A painted cottage garden where an old man, an old woman and a small girl bend together over an enormous pale gold turnip half out of dark earth, a dog, a cat and a mouse beside them.

The Enormous Turnip

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A painted June garden in strong afternoon light, a girl at a low threshold holding a full blown rose out in both hands and half turned away, other children behind her forming a linked ring on the grass, roses heavy on the wall.

Outdoor Meet up: Closing Rose Ceremony: Festival Schedule

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A painted interior where an older child kneels to place a deep pink rose into the cupped hands of a smaller child, other children gathered softly behind in warm window light.

Opening Rose Ceremony

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A painted road at dawn where many people walk together into rising light, hands linked, a man in the foreground carrying a small child who looks back over his shoulder.

Civil Rights

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A painted green hillside in March, a boy coming down the slope with shamrock at his shoulder and green ribbons lifting, other children in the new grass with shamrock crowns and streamers, families on rugs and cloud shadows moving across the slope.

Outdoor Meet up: Spring Equinox and St. Patrick’s Day: Festival Schedule

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A painted orchard on the morning of the equinox, bare branches just budding in pale green and rose, a child kneeling to press a seed into dark turned earth while others move between the trees trailing ribbons.

Spring Equinox

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A painted meadow at sunrise with dew on every blade, a girl turning with her arms opening and her face lifted into the light, a hare bounding through the middle distance and blossoming fruit trees behind.

Easter

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A painted hilltop at the longest evening, a birch fire burning against a sky still light at its edges, children circling it hand in hand with one stepping over the low flames, the land falling away in soft violet folds.

Summer Solstice

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A painted shallow shore at midday, wet sand mirroring the sky in pearl, blue and rose, children moving through the tideline with their reflections doubling them.

Down by the Sea

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A painted village green in full May light, children circling a maypole with long ribbons of rose, cream, gold and sky blue winding into a spiral above them, hawthorn in heavy white blossom around the edges.

May Faire

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A painted field of ripening wheat under a heavy midsummer sky, the grain moving in one long slow wave with poppies scattered through, children walking a narrow track through the middle of it.

July

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A painted late August landscape heavy with ripeness, stubble fields cut to pale gold and an orchard bowed with fruit, children walking the field edge with baskets in the middle distance.

August

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A painted hay meadow at its fullest seen from within, grasses, sorrel, ox eye daisies and clover filling the lower picture, children wading chest deep through it in the middle distance under a warm blue sky.

June

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A painted bare autumn wood at dusk, two children on the leaf-strewn path, the taller holding a lit lantern out at arm's length so its warm glow spreads down the avenue of trunks.

Lantern Walk & Martinmas

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A painted hillside where a young knight in a white surcoat with a red cross stands with his lance lowered over a great green and red dragon lying subdued in the grass, the king's daughter loosening her girdle beside a rock and a crowd watching from the town gate.

St. George and the Dragon

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A painted stone cottage hearth where Brigid in a green mantle and a crown of greenery kneels binding rushes beside a small fire, her white cow at her shoulder and children around her, one holding a lit beeswax candle.

St. Brigid and the Return of the Light

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A painted village square in autumn where a traveller in a ragged cloak holds up a grey stone beside a great steaming iron pot, villagers pressing in with a cabbage and carrots and a ring of children gathered close around the fire.

Stone Soup

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A painted November night on the road outside a palace, a young prince kneeling to hold his lantern out to a ragged figure against the wall while loosening his cloak, the palace windows blazing coldly behind him and small lanterns appearing further along the dark road.

The Lantern Prince

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A painted garden in full late spring flower, a long table under a fruit tree with a white cloth catching dappled light, children turning in a circle on the grass beside it with a streamer floating behind, adults watching from the shade.

Garden Party

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A painted farmyard interior where a russet hen stands with a grain of wheat in her beak, a sheaf and a millstone behind her and a brown loaf cooling on a cloth, while a dog, a cat and a mouse lie idle in the straw and her chicks gather at her feet.

The Little Red Hen

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A painted thaw under a wide silver sky, wet fields with meltwater lying in bright sheets that mirror the clouds, snowdrops in the foreground and children stepping through the standing water in the middle distance.

February

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A painted frozen landscape at midday under a high pale sky, a black stream running open through white fields with bare willows in ochre and rust, children gliding on the ice in the middle distance.

January

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A painted snow covered village at blue hour, cottage windows glowing warm ochre against cold lavender snow, children coming down a slope on a sledge in the middle distance.

December

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