WWS Spotlight

A chance to meet our school community

Nina Moore – WWS Grade 3 Teacher

Spotlight Throwback!

Here below is Nina’s spotlight we featured back in Dec. 2018 before the Winter Faire festival.

Crafting and handwork is an important piece of Waldorf Education. Could you provide a brief comment on the role it plays in your own life?

The act of creating something – anything – brings me a feeling of peace and purpose. Actually completing a painting, drawing or craft brings me immense satisfaction. For me, it’s a human need I try to honor on a regular basis. I keep my hands busy. My work has improved with practice over the years, certainly, but what I’m making doesn’t have to be perfect, that’s not the point. I’m usually creating with my children playing around me, my husband cooking, friend’s chatting. Creation is a part of my everyday life, and it’s part of what keeps me smiling and excited about each new day!

What are your favourite materials to use for your creations and why?
I work with a variety of mediums, depending on my available time and mood! Over the past several years I’ve been transitioning my arts & crafts stash to natural materials – 100% cotton fabrics, wool roving, felts and yarns, wood, leather, metal, glass, paper and canvas. I’ve even experimented with making my own charcoal, paints and inks from natural sources, which is very satisfying to do.

I think I owe it to myself and the world to create art in a sustainable way, with materials that bring an added element of ‘life’ to my work.

What creations do you usually sell at Winter Faire?

“My booth will be an eclectic mix of handmade-by-me goods! I have a few beautiful fabric dolls to treasure. A selection of paintings – mostly watercolours – and printed greetings card bundles. There will also be some cute fully reversible cotton lunch totes, with matching utensil roll ups – I use my own for school lunch every day, and made my whole family sets. They carry them in their backpacks all summer, for work lunches, picnics and take outs. Copies of “I’m Going Skiing,” a colouring book I created with Alex Wilde for children starting ski school for the first time. Bright, bold and beautiful random treasures! And of course, the most traditional Christmas gifts you could possibly find, vials of real gold, frankincense and myrrh.”* (*From Dec. 2018, WWS E-News)

Thank you Nina for sharing your passion for arts and crafting!