This beautiful handmade sustainable wooden Grapat 7 moons, weekly calendar play set comprises of 7 toy nins® in seven different colours: each colour represents a day of the week, corresponding with those defined in the Waldorf pedagogy. The set also includes 7 cups in corresponding colours to the acorn nins® and 1 round natural wooden dish (18cm diameter) to contain all elements.
Many ancient cultures believed that every day of the week had it’s own planet, colour, scent and grain. Those beliefs have also been applied by the Waldorf pedagogy:
Monday: moon, rice, purple or violet, jasmine
Tuesday: Mars, red, Barley, clove
Wednesday, Mercury, Millet, yellow, copal
Thursday, Jupiter, rye, orange, cedar
Friday: Venus, oats, green, rose
Saturday: Saturn, corn, indigo or blue, myrrh
Sunday: sun, wheat, white, frankincense
Inspired by Waldorf teaching, the 7 moons, weekly calendar helps children to understand better the progression of time and the weekly cycle.
The Grapat 7 moons, weekly calendar play set is entirely crafted by hand from sustainable wood and finished by hand with natural water based dyes. Each item is smooth and pleasant to touch and finished with natural bees wax.
The Grapat 7 moons, weekly calendar is suitable for children aged 12 months and up.
Contents:
7 wooden acorn nins
7 wooden cups
1 wooden dish
About Grapat
Inspired by the Waldorf pedagogy, the Spanish brand Grapat is well-known for their beautiful wooden toys which are open-ended and favour free and autonomous play. The Grapat philosophy is based on providing open-ended toys that encourage, invite and stimulate creation allowing children to invent their own games and imaginary worlds.
All the wooden Grapat toys are hand-crafted in various workshops in Catalunya, Spain, following traditional processes, with wood derived from sustainable forests and painted by hand with water based dyes. The toys are safe for use by small children as they are non-toxic and comply with the European safety regulations of the directive EN / 71-3: 2014 + A1: 2014 / 2013 regarding toy safety. A large part of the Grapat toys collection carries the prestigious Spielgut® seal.