{"id":3395,"date":"2011-05-08T22:22:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T22:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?page_id=3395"},"modified":"2011-05-09T00:45:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:45:12","slug":"playgroup-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?page_id=3395","title":{"rendered":"Playgroup Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>General Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I belong to the yahoo discussion board,\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/waldorfhomeeducators\/\" target=\"_blank\">waldorf home educators<\/a>, and I read those posts every day, especially when Mrs M is talking. Mrs M is Marsha Johnson of the Shining Star School in Portland, Oregon. If you join this group you will also have access to the extensive files of Waldorf homeschooling materials that Mrs. M has developed over the years.<\/p>\n<p>I also really appreciate and enjoy The Waldorf Connection. Donna runs Waldorf-inspired teleseminars and replays are often free for the first 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blogs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group favorite is soulemama by Amanda Soule. We even read her book <em>The Creative Family<\/em> for one of our book clubs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theparentingpassageway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Parenting Passageway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the beginning, we did many group orders to share costs. We ordered often from Mercurious (Waldorf school supplies) and Nova Naturals\u00c2\u00a0 (toys). Nova Naturals is a great place to have a wish list started for birthdays and gift-giving holidays.<\/p>\n<p>We have ordered soft doll patterns, kits, and hair from Weir Dolls. Now we frequently supplement our supplies with orders to A Child&#8217;s Dream Come True. I&#8217;ve met the owner (she used to live in Joshua Tree and we have some mutual friends) and her web store has pretty much anything a Waldorf-inspired family might need.<\/p>\n<p>If you get into dying your own materials, Dharma Trading is the way to go. I&#8217;ve been ordering from them for over fifteen years. You can get a wide range of blank silks and cotton hankies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Information I belong to the yahoo discussion board,\u00c2\u00a0 waldorf home educators, and I read those posts every day, especially when Mrs M is talking. Mrs M is Marsha Johnson of the Shining Star School in Portland, Oregon. If you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?page_id=3395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3390,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3395","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3395\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}