The Earth Child’s Handbook
written and illustrated by Brigid Ashwood
The Earth Child’s Handbook is a primer, reference, craft and activity book series for families that follow Pagan, Wiccan and Earth Based spiritual paths. Designed to appeal to all age groups (and grown-ups too!), the books address common Pagan belief and practices, explaining the principles and traditions behind them.
Each chapter features:
~ Recipes
~ Instructional craft projects
~ Coloring pages, mazes, connect-the-dots and word searches
~ Color, cut and assemble projects.
Younger children will delight in coloring pages and paper crafts. Older children will find educational fun with word searches, mazes, connect the dots and instructional crafts. And parents might find it a lifesaver with easy recipe ideas and inspiration for teaching and building Pagan traditions.
The Earth Child’s Handbook – Book 1 features chapters on the joy of family and diversity, honoring the earth and the principles of the four elements, the universe and Pagan beliefs regarding the Sun and the Moon, explanation of Deities, an introduction to Magick and Ritual with simple spells and exercises, and a complete “color, cut and assemble” paper altar project.
Topics covered include Shapeshifting, Runes, Book of Shadows, Animal Guides, Chakras, Meditation, Astrological Signs, The Elements, Cycles of the Moon, Magickal Correspondences, Sun Deities, Moon Deities, Triple Goddess and Triple God, The Four Quarters and Casting a Circle.
Featured activities include making a Chakra shirt, rain stick, homemade face paints, herbal infusions, bath salts, a moon phase wheel, moon cake recipe, a complete “color, cut and assemble” paper altar and much, MUCH more.
Digital Edition available at http://www.earthchildshandbook.com
I’ve been waiting for something like this forever! This book is really great. Simple and straight forward with lots of flexibility. Can be made very simple for the very young or more in-depth for older kids. Be sure to get BOTH book 1 and book 2. There are few books for teaching earth based spirituality to kids but this is more like a homeschool program. I thinks it’s very well done and very well organized.
A Little Bit of Everything I am always a big supporter of anything that teaches our kids the healthy ways of being Pagan. Honestly, I can’t say as I’ve come across anything unhealthy. The Pagan community is filled with such warm and loving people, and the teachings are very warm and loving as well.As soon as I saw this set of books, I was super excited! It looked really neat from the outside! And it appeared to be very versatile!I can tell you after reading it, that is IS both! Now, there are things in here that younger kids just won’t be interested in. *shrug* That happens. Keeping kids interested in things is always a challenge to parents. But there are tools that Ms. Ashwood provides to assist parents in KEEPING it interesting!One of the things that I absolutely love about this book, is that it’s a way for the parent and the child/children to bond. Everything is interactive. This isn’t the kind of book that you just hand to a child and say, “Here you go. Have fun. See you…