Monday, March 26, 2012

Giveaway: A Needle-Felted Playscape!

The votes are in! The playscapes win :)

I love playscapes and they have helped me immensely with my Waldorf inspired homeschool. I can't tell you how many times we have used one of the playscapes in the context of a story for teaching or how many times I have heard little voices playing and peek in to find great adventures happening on the playscape with their little wooden toys.

This playscape features a meadow with a raised mound (where a simple little turtle sits), a stream that deposits into a lake, a cave lined with gold and diamonds where a simple red gnome fulfills his life's work, and a magic tale-telling tree that will come with both deep green 'leaves', and 'autumn foilage so that the playscape can be changed for the seasons, as well (simply remove the 'leaves' for a winter scape). Additional treasures abound in the details (like the purple heather and some little 'apples' that can be placed on the tree during the harvest)!


To be entered to win this beautiful playscape, please leave me a comment with the ages of your child(ren) and their favorite book (or books) and I will post those in a subsequent post.

For an additional entry into the contest, become a follower of my blog (if you are already, LMK that and I'll add your name a second time).

For a third entry, please list your favorite blog (and the category it falls under - general, homeschooling, waldorf, crafting, etc) and I'll post those as a group in a subsequent post!

Good luck to everyone!

The winner will be announced next week on Monday, April 2nd!

64 comments:

  1. Oh, it's beautiful! My children are 6. 5,and 2. Their favorite books.... the oldest two adore the Tiptoe books from Reg Down and the littlest loves Susan Boynton.

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  2. Favorite blog is Frontier Dreams... Waldorf, I guess.

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  3. 1. My children are 7 and 3 years old (plus we have one more on the way!). Their favorite books right now are the Harry Potter series (my 7 year old), and the Dr. Sears book on bringing home a new baby (my 3 year old).

    2. I do follow your blog!

    3. One of my favorite blogs is How Sweet It Is - http://www.howsweeteats.com, a yummy picture-filled food blog!

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  4. Hi Jen!

    The playscape looks wonderful. I know my son (8.5 yo) would love playing with it. It's hard to pick a favourite book when there are so many great ones, but he really enjoyed "Momo" by Michael Ende and I loved that one too.

    I'm already a follower of your blog. One of my other favorites is
    http://homeschoolingwaldorf.wordpress.com/
    it is very inspirational. The title says it all.

    Thank you, Jen, for the chance to win. Blessings to you.

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  5. Hi! What a lovely playscape! My children are 7 and 2. My seven year old's favorite books are the Little House books we read last year as well as the Tiptoes Lightly books by Reg Down. My 2 year old's favorite book is Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, & Old Mother West Wind is a favorite of both.

    Thank you Jen!

    Becca

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  6. I have too many favorite blogs. One I really like is Small Things & it's a... hmmm, I guess parenting/homeschooling/homesteading blog.

    Becca

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  7. My 8 year old is loving the Boxcar Children books...and the 6 year old is (still) a huge Curious George fan.

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  8. And, (one of) my favorite blogs is my friend's cooking/family life blog http://www.hidethecheese.com/hide_the_cheese/

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  9. It's beautiful and so very detailed.

    1.My children are 9, 8 and 9 months old. My 9 year old favorite book is Scarlet Stocking about a pair of magical ballet shoe. My 8 year old loves comic book so he enjoys the TinTin series. And my 9 months old loves Goodnight Moon.

    2. I'm a follower of your blog.

    3. One of my favorite blog is twiningoaks.blogspot.com/ (schooling from the heart) Waldorf blog

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  10. Oh this is positively dreamy! Thank you so much for this giveaway :-) My son is 5 and currently his favorite book is the Usborne Encyclopedia of World History (I swear I'm not making that up! ;-)).

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  11. I just officially became a follower, but I've been following for quite some time. Thanks for the 2nd chance to win!

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  12. Hello Jen! My son is 22 months old and loves the Ezra Jack Keats books. I love your blog-though I started reading it while you were taking a sabbatical =)

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  13. K, i am now following the blog. =)

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  14. What a beautiful playscape!! My daughter is 3 yo and would love to play with it. Her favorite book right now is Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes though she has many favorites.

    I am already a follower of your blog. One of my favorite blogs is http://happywhimsicalhearts.blogspot.com/. It is craft and Waldorf inspired.

    Thank you for the chance to win.

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  15. That is so beautiful. I really love your blog - I find it very helpful as I am also doing Grade One at the moment with Mr 7.
    My children are 16, 14, 7, 3 and 9 months. Misses 16 and 14 are currently reading the Shiver trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater. Mr 7 loves The Boxcar Children and The Dwarfs of Nosegay. Mr 3's current favourite is Katy No-Pocket and Mr 9 months just loves to listen to anything!
    I like this blog:
    http://www.mamamoontime.com/
    Waldorf and craft I would fit it under.
    Thanks for all the great ideas I find here - really inspiring!

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  16. my children would LOVE this. 've wanted to make one for ages....my children are 3 and 7.
    their favourite books are dinosaur books from the library, dr seuss books, and african folk tales. nelson mandella has written a great one. x

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  17. my favourite waldorf homeschooling site is a little garden flower, melisa nielsen's website. i use her books and videos for my curricula. thank you for this giveaway !x

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  18. I'm so thrilled to see your blog and your amazing talents at work, Jen. Wowee! What's bigger than "wowee"? That's what you are! I love your playscape. I only wish I would have homeschooled my children. You're one in a million with your talents, love, serenity, golden heart and so many more things. Love you Jen!!

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  19. that is an amazing playscape, how much fun could we have with that !! My little girls are 4 and 2, and their favourite book (this week !) is one we got from the library called Various Faerious by Jacqui Grantford

    I already follow your blog.

    Thanks, Carole

    One of my favourite blogs is http://passengersonalittlespaceship.blogspot.com.au. Waldorf inspired.

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  20. lovely giveaway -- the tree is especially gorgeous. my daughter loves Anne of Green Gables. and my son (and I) are crazy about Gone-Away Lake. nancywalters44@hotmail.com

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  21. I have lots of beloved blogs. Angry Chicken and Yarn Harlot never fail to please. :) nancywalters44@hotmail.com

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  22. You're awesome, Jen! I'm so excited to be a new follower of your blog. I could get lost in it!

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  23. What a beautiful piece of art. Our daughter is 6, and she would love playing with it. So many lovely possibilities for play. Thank you for the chance to win!

    Our favorite book right now is "Now We Are Six", by A.A. Milne, the author of the Winnie the Pooh stories. Our daughter loves reading the poems to us, and having them read to her. I had the book when I was little, and reading it is one of my favorite memories from childhood.

    We already follow and enjoy your blog. Our daughter is in Kindergarten, and we can't wait till we move up to use your Grade One resources.

    One of our favorite blogs is "Wee Folk Craft", a craft blog. We have made so many of gnomes and flower fairies in the Wee Folk style, and have filled our dollhouse with projects from the site, as well. There is a "How to Knit" tutorial that I hope to use this summer to teach our daughter to knit. Lots of fun. http://weefolkart.com

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  24. Lovely playscape! Our children are 1, 4, 6, 8, and 14. Our youngest enjoys looking at picture books with no words, anything with animals. The Gerda Muller seasonal board books are a fav. Our four year old loves stories with bears, Tops or Bottoms Bear and even an old school Berenstein Bears' Christmas, much like The Bike Lesson, is read often. The Fiercest Little Animal in the Forest is adored by our six year who expresses his love for the winter festivals throughout the year. :) Our eight year read loves to read Lego catalogues and comics with his older brother and is also enjoying The Dragon Boy Book One with Mama for our chapter book read aloud. Our oldest LOVES to read about gluten free baking. He can spend hours in a good bread book and proudly shares his knowledge and delicious baking with our family.

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  25. I am a follower of your blog. Thank you for all that you share!

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  26. The Parenting Pasageway is my favorite blog. It is an everything waldorf lifestyle blog. So much goodness there.

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  27. My children are 3 and 1 and their favorite book right now is "Buenos noches, gorila" (Good night, Gorilla in Spanish)

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  28. I've followed your blog for a while!

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  29. My favorite blog right now is whip up. It's a crafting (mostly sewing/quilting) blog

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  30. Hi Jen! My daughter is six. Her favorite books are The Magic Treehouse series. My favorite blog was Childhood Magic, but alas, it is no more. I have been checking out passengersonalittlespaceship.blogspot.com, which is Waldorf inspired. I thought I was a follower of your blog already. :O)

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  31. so beautiful, Ellijah is 5 and one of her favorit books is peter pan adapted by michael Johnstone, Amelie is 2 and she loves anything and everything

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  32. my favorite blogs are bluebirdbaby (waldorfy/ inspirational/general)
    and ordinary life magic ( unschooling )

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  33. My girls are 2.5 and 6 weeks old... favorite books in our house are "Winne the Pooh" and Beatrix Potter, as well as nursery rhymes and verses.

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  34. Oh my... how delightful!!!!
    Kitty is 8 and TEddy is 4. Kitty's fav book is Little House on the Prairie, of course :-) Teddy is into The Noisy Cricket (he likes the sound the cricket makes at the end).
    Thanks so much for such a gorgeous giveaway.
    Blessings and magic,
    Donni

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  35. I love this playscape! My kids ages are 4.5 yrs old and 2. They love so many books, it's hard to choose. Maybe The Little Train that Could....and the waldorf seasonal board books.

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  36. I am a follower of your blog!

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  37. My fav blogs are Parenting Passageway, Soulemama, and Beauty that Moves.

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  38. Hmm, my children range from 25 down to 9 and there are 7 of them, so I'll just tell you the favourites for the last 2!!
    Miss 9 loves 'Mother Earth and her Children' and spends a long time looking at the beautiful stitching! Master 11 is mesmerised by 'The King of Irelands Son' which I read to them last year .
    Your playscape is beautiful and Miss 9 is drooling over my shoulder!!

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  39. Oh dear, there are so many favourites to choose from - maybe Small Things. Ginny is such a delight!
    I used to love Farmama and Our Little Nature Nest but alas they are no more!!

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  40. Beautiful playscape! My 4 year old would love it, and so would I. :)

    I have a 4 year old and an almost 4 month old. The older one's current favorites are all the Tiptoes Lightly books. She begs to read them morning and night. The little one is just starting to flip the book pages when I read the board books to her. Yesterday we were looking through Yummy Yucky and she's fascinated with the baby pictures. :)

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  41. I'm already following you via google reader.Have been missing your blog during the hiatus. Glad you're back. Looking forward to more of your girls' adventures.

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  42. Some of my favorite blogs (aside from yours) are:

    A bit of this and a bit of that (Montessori, crafts)
    Moonbeans and Applesauce (Waldorf, crafts)
    Along The Crooked Path (Waldorf)

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  43. Oh wow....so stunning! And generous!

    My daughters are 7, 5 and 5. They love the Cicely Mary Barker seasonal Flower Fairies books. My eldest also loves field guides of birds and a dinosaur encyclopedia. :D Other favorite books include anything by Jim Arnosky, Wild Wild Sunflower Child Anna, Tricky Fox (the little twin), The Full Belly Bowl.....

    Thanks!
    ~carrie~

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  44. My daughters are 15, 12 and 5. The fifteen year old is enjoying the Hunger Games and Maze Runner series now. The 12 year old is loving A Wrinkle in Time at the moment. The 5 year old loves Elsa Beskows The Sun Egg and Peter in Blueberry Land. She also loves the story of the Gingerbread Man.

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  45. I'm a follower of your lovely blog. So glad to see you back.

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  46. Favorite blogs, that's a tough one. Love Soule Mama for inspiration, crafting, recipes and such. Love Frontier Dreams, Chocolate Eyes, Bending Birches and Cedar Ring Mama for Waldorf Inspired Living. The Parenting Passageway is for great Waldorf information.

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  47. Hello Jane! I love your blog it is my favorite. My chileren names are Maximus 9 and Kaya 7. They love to read Franklin stories. klein_monika@yahoo.com Monika Klein

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  48. Lovely landscape! My 3 children ages are 7, 4 and 5 months. 7's favorite is "The Story of May" and the 4's favorite is "Bear wants more" of the bear snores on series.

    mybarefootangel(@)gmail(.)com

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  49. Favorite blog other than yours, Garden Mama though she has stopped posting and Feather + Anchor blog at http://erinellenbergermarch.com/
    Says on her blog, handmade fare, parenthood, photography,and homeschooling.

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  50. Hi Jen! What a beautiful playscape! My little girl started imaginative play a few months ago which was amazing to see so I know she would love your playscape. My children are 2 and 10 months. Teah (the 2 year old) loves books. She always has a book in her hand so it is hard to pick a favourite. She is currently reading the My First Little House collection by Laura Ingalls Wilder. My 10 month old loves That's Not My Teddy and That's Not My Puppy.

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  51. Favourite blogs are barn raising, crooked moon mama and golden sun family.

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  52. My three kids are 9, 6, and 2. My six year old really likes _The_Boy_of_the_Ten_Year_Nap_ right now. My two year old likes _The_Little_Engine_That_Could_.
    When asked about her favorite book, my nine year old said, "This is hard, I like too many books.... The Little House books, The Magic Tree House books,the Rainbow Fairy books.... I don't have a favorite.

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  53. I love your blog and have followed you for almost 2 years via RSS. I just also signed up via Google friend connect.

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  54. Choosing a favorite blog is hard! I think though that The Parenting Passageway may win. Her blog is parenting and Waldorf related. My second choice might be Cooking Traditional Foods, which is, not surprisingly, a food related blog ;)

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  55. I have five children...ages 7,11,14,17 and 20. We are reading The Little House series right now.

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  56. My favorite blog is Hodgepodge, a homeschooling blog.

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  57. We have two children aged, 20 months and 7. The 7 year old loves "Children of the Forest" and several others from Elsa Beskow. And the youngest is enjoying several books these days, but his favorite is "Pouch".

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  58. My favorite blog is Backwoods mom. I would say it is a general blog.

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  59. We have three children, 4, 22 months and 7 weeks. Favorite books are The Nutcracker and Goodnight Moon. I just starting following today. One of our favorite blogs is from http://weefolkart.com

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