DIY that Your Kids is Capable of

Work like sewing or knitting have great educational value from the early childhood education. This is something that Waldorf education, pedagogy which aims to educate the human being globally (head, heart and hands), is well aware, so that handworks and handicrafts are much your resume.

In home also have it in mind, you only have to see our DIY section to get an idea, and precisely why today I bring 2 simple and practical tutorials they can make with portable sewing kit.

What are the benefits of doing work?

The practice of crafts with sewing needle holders and work is not intended to provide only a hobby nice, but there are many reasons why Waldorf education advocates by them. We could summarize as follows:

Strengthen development

Fine motor skills (this is something that I told you recently when I explained how to prepare the way literacy natural), movement coordination, spatial orientation, permanence the object or laterality. So when sewing with her frame Sunflower coordinating both hands, and inserts the needle holding accurately understood that the needle has disappeared behind the fabric, it is there and must bring her back at a point close to the one he left, to finish the stitch. It sounds simple, but the mental process that requires very complex.

Any task awakens craft creative powers with felt fabric sheets, helping the child develop a healthy imagination. Besides manual activities, when practiced according to point view art or craft, also they have the function to prepare for situations that may occur later in life. Rudolf Steiner, the creator of pedagogy. Waldorf, said that the balanced thinking and "good judgment" of an adult will depend much more on whether a child has been taught to use their hands and their fingers correctly and practice, later, the exercise of thought logical.

And it is that a connection between finger mobility is established and flexible thinking and generating ideas. Like stitches train children with the movement of their limbs and their fingers reoccurs later as healthy forces to think. This may seem a priori something crazy, and yet it is proving neuroscience. They are several published studies because they demonstrate the power they have over the brain, these tasks.