PAINTING IN LIVING COLOR FOR GRADES 1, 2, AND 3
We are happy to share excerpts of our new painting manual for teaching children in
grades 1, 2, and 3. Based on Rudolf Steiner's ideals for the renewal of the art of
education. This book follows and supports the ideas of Waldorf Education as given
by Steiner.
The manual is spiral bound for easy use and divided into 3 sections for the 3 different grades. It also includes exercises specifically for the training of teachers.
The painting set up for children in Grade 1 is shown below, featuring the
PAINT LITTLE PLANT exercise. The manual also contains festival painting exercises for all
three grades. See the examples for Grade 1 below.
Painting in Living Color is available in a digital format, which can be purchased
through our website at www.rcara.org. To purchase the printed copy, contact us at
[email protected].
grades 1, 2, and 3. Based on Rudolf Steiner's ideals for the renewal of the art of
education. This book follows and supports the ideas of Waldorf Education as given
by Steiner.
The manual is spiral bound for easy use and divided into 3 sections for the 3 different grades. It also includes exercises specifically for the training of teachers.
The painting set up for children in Grade 1 is shown below, featuring the
PAINT LITTLE PLANT exercise. The manual also contains festival painting exercises for all
three grades. See the examples for Grade 1 below.
Painting in Living Color is available in a digital format, which can be purchased
through our website at www.rcara.org. To purchase the printed copy, contact us at
[email protected].
Painting in Living Color for Grades 1, 2, and 3 is a handbook for teaching a way of painting which is based
on Rudolf Steiner's indications for a modern art of painting. Through a new way of working with color, this
painting process seeks to connect the soul and spirit of the human being with the soul and spirit of the world
around us, and to the spiritual world which animates all life. Color experience provides a path to the spirit
and is the foundation for the new ideal in painting: "Paint Form out of Color". The ideas and exercises given
in these manuals also follow Steiner's Waldorf Pedagogy, the modern path of education suited to the needs
of our time which address the reality of the whole human as a being of body, soul, and spirit. Only from this
foundation can a real method of education be developed. There is an urgent need in our time for a way of
educating children that not only includes science and technology but also awakens imagination and educates
the feeling and willing faculties of children. This educational movement is intended to raise cultural expres-
sion and development of the arts to an equal footing with the sciences.
"The future requires that we base general education upon concepts that can serve as a foundation for Imagi-
native Thoughts, not just thoughts taken from science and industry. As improbable a this may seem now, in
the future we will be unable to properly interact socially if we do not teach people Imaginative concepts. ...
In the future we must be able to understand the world in pictures."
R. Steiner
GA 296, Lecture 3, Education as a Force for Social Change
on Rudolf Steiner's indications for a modern art of painting. Through a new way of working with color, this
painting process seeks to connect the soul and spirit of the human being with the soul and spirit of the world
around us, and to the spiritual world which animates all life. Color experience provides a path to the spirit
and is the foundation for the new ideal in painting: "Paint Form out of Color". The ideas and exercises given
in these manuals also follow Steiner's Waldorf Pedagogy, the modern path of education suited to the needs
of our time which address the reality of the whole human as a being of body, soul, and spirit. Only from this
foundation can a real method of education be developed. There is an urgent need in our time for a way of
educating children that not only includes science and technology but also awakens imagination and educates
the feeling and willing faculties of children. This educational movement is intended to raise cultural expres-
sion and development of the arts to an equal footing with the sciences.
"The future requires that we base general education upon concepts that can serve as a foundation for Imagi-
native Thoughts, not just thoughts taken from science and industry. As improbable a this may seem now, in
the future we will be unable to properly interact socially if we do not teach people Imaginative concepts. ...
In the future we must be able to understand the world in pictures."
R. Steiner
GA 296, Lecture 3, Education as a Force for Social Change
Below is the beginning of the Grade 1 section with a picture of painting set up for Grade 1 and examples of Festival Painting Exercises.
Our manual also includes specific exercises for teacher painting training. See the example below.
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