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Category: Advent Activities
Advent Activities
Eight Ways to Make Halloween Extra-Magical This Year
With its rich history and beautiful culture, Halloween is an opportunity to experience something new in yourself. Here are my thoughts about how you can bring extra magic to this Halloween!
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How to Throw a Halloween Party: In true Martin-&-Sylvia-style!
This Halloween, let's party like Martin & Sylvia shall we!? It's spooky season for most, but for Sparklers, we know that it’s a friendly time where we can look for magic and for “the thinning of the veils,” as M&S would day! Read more to find out how you can throw your very own Martin-and-Sylvia-style Fairy Ball!
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Celebrating Autumn Equinox
Celebrating the Fall Equinox is a great way to bring a closer connection to nature into your home. Explore our best waldorf-inspired tips to help welcome the change from summer to fall.
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Lanterns and Lights
There might not be much light coming from your lantern, but it could make all the difference for someone experiencing the many darknesses around us.
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Celebrating the Summer Solstice
In our house, we celebrate both solstices — winter and summer — with equal fervor. We have a calendar which I made with little cards, much like an advent calendar. Each card contains an activity to do for that day to explore summer and the long days. Your family can celebrate for the whole month, a week, or even only the day of solstice.
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SparkleCast Episode 8 – The Twelve Days of Christmas with Meredith Markow
In this episode, Meredith, Rebecca, and David discuss the collection Twelve Tales of a Tullyport Christmas – the stories-within-the-stories of our other holiday collection, Martin & Sylvia’s Twelve Days of Christmas. Meredith and David talk about the history of the festival and then how it has shown up in their lives.
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Why Twelve Days of Christmas?
Looking for a 12 days of Christmas story? Read about the inspiration and traditions behind our original audio stories created for this season.
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The Wonder of Halloween
David talks about why children actually want to dress in gory costumes of monsters, the undead and the maimed: they are still looking for wonder!
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The Winter Spiral: A How-to Guide
Create your own Winter Waldorf Advent Spiral during this holiday season. Here's a helpful how-to guide along with some inspiration to get you started.
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Our Five Best Halloween Stories — for Free!
Stories to inspire Halloween wonder.
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