Day 12, Tuesday, September 29, 2026, of homeschooling my four-year-old triplet nephews for our Waldorf-inspired kindergarten started a little differently. We skipped our usual opening rhythm of checking the weather, season, and calendar and went straight into making our fall peg dolls because I had completely forgotten to make them earlier in the week.

The children painted their own peg dolls in the colors of their choice using Lyra opaque watercolor pan paints. I actually loved that they were able to be part of making something that would become part of our seasonal activities instead of simply receiving something I had already prepared for them.

From there, we moved into making homemade pizza. The children love working with dough, and homemade pizza has become such an easy and enjoyable activity for us. I have the recipe linked in the description box below.

My 11-year-old nephew was also working independently on blueberry muffins while we prepared another project for later in the day. We boiled walnuts so they would hopefully be easier to crack cleanly in half because we wanted to turn the shells into little sailboats.

While everything was cooking, the children had plenty of time for imaginative play on their wooden play structure from Head, Hands, and Heart Boutique in Canada. My 15-year-old daughter often joins them in their play, which gives them even more ideas for how to transform the structure.

After pizza and blueberries, we moved on to our walnut sailboats. The children chose pieces of 100% wool felt for their sails, and we used small twigs for the masts. Next time we go on a nature walk, I want them to collect their own twigs because I already know this is an activity they are going to want to repeat.

My sister-in-law carefully cracked the walnuts after they had been boiled, and surprisingly, many of the shells stayed intact enough to use. I glued the felt sails onto the twigs and then secured them inside the shells with hot glue.

The little boats were definitely delicate, but they actually floated.

The children experimented with placing them gently into a bowl of water and blowing on the sails to make them move. They quickly discovered that if the boats were dropped too roughly or tipped to one side, they would take on water and capsize. It became much more than a craft. They were experimenting, observing, adjusting, and trying again.

Of all the projects we have done so far, I think this may have been one of their favorites simply because they could immediately play with what they had made.

Eventually, our blueberry muffins were ready and cooled enough to eat with a big cup of cold milk.

Since we skipped our opening activities, we returned to them at the end of the day. We checked our little eggs to see whether the chicks had hatched yet. They have not, but the shells are beginning to crack, so I think we may finally have little chicks by the next time the children come.

We also checked the weather, which is still very hot and sunny, looked at our calendar, and read The Hedgehog Leaves Home before wrapping up our kindergarten day.

The children put on their shoes and socks, gathered their little treasures, and headed home with their peg dolls and walnut sailboats after another very full day of work, play, food, and imagination.

Head Hands and Heart Boutique