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We've been working hard on our range of art supplies. Our aim is to bring our customers the same fantastic quality products they expect from us, but at more affordable prices. Many of our customers home educate, or have children attending independent schools and neither option is cheap - we know! So we want to pass on the savings to our customers, if we can... So little changes have started filtering in, beginning with our beautiful blackboard chalk. 

Traditionally, we've bought and sold this chalk under the Lyra label, but we've managed to track down the manufacturer in Germany to bring it here directly, under another label. For us, this means fewer hands transporting our product, which is great for our Global Footprint. For you, it means big savings. Still the same high-quality product, in the same colours and packaging we're used to, but at a fraction of the price. Great news all round!

Here's some inspiration for using our blackboard chalk:
The Parenting Passageway
Waldorf Chalk Speed Draw
Pinterest

Winter ... and big changes ahead!

Spiral Garden has some big, big changes ahead.  Our business will soon be nurtured by another home educating family, far away from Far North Queensland!  Spiral Garden will be trading out of Hobart, Tasmania, from 1 July 2012.

The online store will still offer lots of old favourites, but I’ve heard whispers of BIG plans for some amazing new products, gorgeous handmade items and lots of new ways to view and buy through Spiral Garden.  Stay tuned for more information!

** Don't forget that we still have some amazing Specials available, while current stocks last! **

Homeschooling Resources

Most of you probably know that our children are educated at home. We have always home educated and have six children aged 7 to almost-17. Over the past months, we have been expanding our range of homeschooling resources. Some of the items we stock include:

Always Learning Books - a selection of booklets and books from an Australian publisher, including diaries for record keeping

Golden Beetle Books - a selection of books on Steiner/Waldorf education

HEA Resource Directory 2011

Otherways - subscriptions to Australia's best printed homeschooling magazine

More books relevant to families like ours...

Blank books - these are a beautiful and brilliant resource

Art supplies - including Stockmar, Lyra etc - especially for toddlers and children

Craft supplies - kits, raw materials, uncommon products - and all natural

Gardening products - because we think every family should grow plants!

Don't forget, if you type the code 'homesschool' into the discount coupon section of Checkout, you will automatically receive 10% off any order over $40.00.

Steiner Homeschooling

We recommend the quality Australian books from the Golden Beetle Books Spiritual Syllabus series sold through Spiral Garden. To get started there is the comprehensive title A Steiner Homeschool by Alan Whitehead. Alan has decades of experience in Steiner education.


Some more useful contacts for Steiner homeschooling curriculums include:

Oak Meadow

Christopherus Homeschool

For the correspondence course run through Candlenut Steiner School near Cairns in Far North Queensland, email Nila Chambers or email the school.

An Australian email support group for Waldorf (Steiner) homeschoolers can be found here.

Steiner Schools in Australia site - lots of useful contacts and resources.

Waldorf Homeschoolers - information, advice, resources.

Waldorf Without Walls - curriculum, support, advice, resources.

Golden Beetle Books

Thought about buying one of the Golden Beetle Books titles we stock? Choose from 33 Sun Songs, A Steiner Homeschool, Choir of Colours, The Golden Path, A Children's Anthologia, Susan Whitehead's little Seasonal books and more...

Now's the time to grab your copies because in 2010 the RRP has risen, and so our prices will rise to $16 each on February 1st. Last days...