Waldorf Games Handbook for the Early Years Games to Play and Sing with Children Aged 3-7

by Baadh Garrett, Valerie; Payne, Kim John; Waletzko, Cory

• ISBN13: 9781912480265
• ISBN10: 1912480263
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-03-01
• Publisher: Hawthorn Press

Summary

This classic games book offers a standby resource for parents, teachers, forest school educators, and play leaders. The games are tried and tested. They draw on worldwide Steiner-Waldorf creative education, where a "child’s work is their play." Child growth is explored and how this is helped by a rich treasury of action, finger, circle, clapping, beanbag, chasing, water, tumbling, story and singing games. There are both traditional favorites and also new games created to engage with digitally challenging behavior. Each game is clearly and simply described, with diagrams and drawings for how to play. The games’ weaving of rhythms, movement, songs, stories, and pictures invites children into worlds of vibrant wonder. These games help children feel at ease in their bodies, build relationships, and enjoy playing.

Author Biography

Valerie Baadh Garrett is a movement artist, educator, and therapist working with people of all ages. She worked in Waldorf Education, Spacial Dynamics, and Agile Aging, also teacher training in the USA and China. Kim John Payne M.Ed. is a leading Waldorf educator in the USA, UK, and Australia. Payne travels to speak to 10,000-20,000 parents and teachers a year in North America and worldwide. A former movement teacher, he was a school counselor and worked as a family counselor therapist. He researched a drug free approach to attention deficit disorder. His Social Inclusion Approach for breaking the patterns of bullying has been implemented in hundreds of schools. A father of two, he lives in Massachusetts with his wife Catherine. Cory Waletzko was a professional dancer, actor, and musician before becoming a movement and games educator at Upper Valley Waldorf School in Quechee, Vermont. As a Spacial Dynamics Institute graduate and adjunct faculty member at Antioch University, she has trained trainers in Movement Education and mentored games and movement educators. She works with social inclusion in public and private schools across North America.

Table of Contents

Contents
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Why play games with children?
What makes this book different
from other books on children’s games
The Journey
HIDDEN TREASURES:
Hints and tips for teaching games
Presenting games to children
Using your own creativity
Language of the playground
Bullying
How to pick teams
Going out
When explaining the game
Endings
BREAKING THE RULES:
Sabotaging the game … conflict
Why? How do we deal with it?
Behaviour disturbance and the Temperaments
The Napolean … The Choleric
The Butterfly … The Sanguine
The Comfort Zone … The Phlegmatic
The Wilting Lily … The Melancholic
The adult reaction
EQUIPMENT
Use of equipment
The portable gymnasium
Equipment for water games
HOW MUCH TIME AT EACH AGE?
CHAPTER 1
AGE 3–6
Age 3–4
Finger games
Why do we play finger games with children?
1. The mice in my house
2. The tree
3. In the water
4. Golden rings
5. Babies walk upstairs
6. Little Morris Men
7. Two fat gentlemen
8. Ipsey wipsey spider
9. Here is a ball for Jimmy
10. Dance Thumbkin, dance
11. The flying hands
11.Wee Willie Worm
13. This little finger
14. Grandma and Grandpa
Circle Games
15. Sally go round the sun
16. All my little ducks
17. See the little hare
18. My pigeon house
Age 4–5
19. Nix in the water
20. Who’ll come into my wee ring?
21. All in the wind
22. Kling Klang Gloria
23. Then wished our mother May
24. Ha, ha, this-a-way
25. Head and shoulders
26. Bow Belinda
Age 5–6
27. Rosy apple, mellow pear
28. I wrote a letter to my love
29. In and out the windows
30. Softly softly
31. Here’s a branch of snowy May
32. Briar Rose-bud
33. See a shepherd maiden
34. How does the farmer
35. I am the music man
36. I travelled over land and sea
37. Punchinello
38. Here is a box
39. Ten little candles
40. Little cherry stone
41. Mix a pancake
42. The tree song
43. The day I went to sea
44. Rolling rolling little bug
45. Ring of gold
46. In the grotto
47. Caterpillar crawl along
48. Criss cross apple sauce
49. Five little bunnies
50. Heel and toe
51. Here is a tree with leaves so green
52. Here we come on our ponies
53. Hunt the cows
54. Jump Jim Joe
55. Let your hands go loudly
56. Lippity lop
57. Little chicks come out to play
58. The moon is round
59. Old Miss Sally
60. Our gallant ship
61. Peas porridge hot
62. Pirate ship
63. Planting cabbages
64. Potato bugs in the garden
65. Rolling down the river
66. Sally go round the sun
67. The sun it rises
68. Swish swoosh swash
69. Gnome’s wee little home
70. Whoops! Johnny!
71.We are the fine musicians
CHAPTER 2
AGE 6–7
72. Who’s under the blanket?(Farmer’s seed)
73. Grandma’s slipper
74. Mr Wolf
75. K.I.N.G.
76. Mother may I?
77. Jack be still
78. Circle round the zero
Clapping Games
79. A sailor went to sea
80. My mother said
81. Pim pom pay
82. Goose drank wine
83. Chicken Pox
Beanbag Games
84. There was a little mouse
85.We move our hands
Chasing games
Why play chasing games?
86. Orchard
Counting out rhymes
87. Eenie meenie mackaraka
88. When I was a little girl
89. Og addle under frog
90. Captain Cook
String Games
91. The owl
92. The dragon
93. The necklace
94. The gnomes’ new hats
95. The tent
CHAPTER 3
WATER GAMES, SNOW GAMES AND
INDOOR/RAINY DAY GAMES
Water games
Age 3–5
96. The tickle fish
97. The paddle steamer
98. Ring-a-ring-a-roses
99. Kangaroos
100. Cork scramble
101. The stealthy crocodile
102. Beached whale
103.Wagon wheels
Age 6–7
104. Torpedoes
105. Tangles
106. Crocodiles on the bank
107. Crocodile cave
108. Canoes
109. Propellers
110. Pontoons
Snow games
111. Fox and geese
112. Snowshoe hares
113. Jack Frost/King Winter
114. Helmet,Goggles,Skis and Poles
115. Sled dogs
116. Polar bears and seals
117. Hands-and-knees hockey
Indoor/Rainy day games
118. Lazy Jay
119. Catch the signal
120. Coin or stone?
121. Cheerio
122. Rickety bridge
123. Tournament rock paper scissors
124. Scrambled eggs
125. Heads up, 7-up
CHAPTER 4
MIXED AGE GAMES
Skipping games
Running through the rope
126. Come in, come in
127. The teeth of the dragon
128. The rocking boat
129. Highs, lows
130. Fishes, fishes
Creating your own rhymes
131.Waves on the sea shore
132. Oh look! The winding brook
133. Down by the pond
134. There was an old woman tossed up in a basket
135. I like coffee, I like tea
136. Teddy bear, teddy bear
137. Johnny over the ocean
138. Keep the kettle boiling
139. Down by the ocean
140. Everybody, everybody
141. Changing bedrooms
142. All in together girls
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