Waldorf Block: G2: Second Grade Form Drawing

Unlock your child's creativity and fine motor skills with Earthschooling Waldorf's Second Grade Form Drawing! This unique Waldorf curriculum element focuses on the practice of drawing continuous, flowing lines and shapes, designed to nurture your child's emerging sense of balance, rhythm, and spatial awareness. Children in Waldorf education embark on a journey of exploring polarities and symmetries through form drawing. They work with both running forms (repetitive patterns like waves) and mirror forms, where they learn to draw symmetrical patterns on either side of an axis. This emphasis on balance and symmetry reflects the child's developing awareness of duality in the world. This block includes step-by-step instructions for teaching all the basic forms for second grade. It also includes the e-book “Waldorf Form Drawing Basics” and access to all the Main Lesson Book pages for second grade form drawing.

Waldorf Second Grade Form Drawing: Fostering Balance and Artistic Development
Unlock your child's creativity and fine motor skills with Earthschooling Waldorf's Second Grade Form Drawing! This unique Waldorf curriculum element focuses on the practice of drawing continuous, flowing lines and shapes, designed to nurture your child's emerging sense of balance, rhythm, and spatial awareness.
What is Waldorf Form Drawing in the Second Grade?
In second grade, children in Waldorf education embark on a journey of exploring polarities and symmetries through form drawing. They work with both running forms (repetitive patterns like waves) and mirror forms, where they learn to draw symmetrical patterns on either side of an axis. This emphasis on balance and symmetry reflects the child's developing awareness of duality in the world.
Benefits of Earthschooling Waldorf Form Drawing for Second Graders:
  • Develops Fine Motor Skills and Handwriting Readiness: Drawing continuous lines improves pencil control and prepares children for cursive writing.
  • Enhances Spatial Orientation and Visual-Spatial Skills: Working with forms helps children understand and manipulate spatial relationships.
  • Encourages Multi-Sensory Learning: Form drawing engages visual, kinesthetic, and even auditory senses, boosting memory and cognitive processing.
  • Fosters Focus and Concentration: The repetitive nature of form drawing encourages concentration and rhythm.
  • Promotes Creativity and Imagination: Forms can become the foundation for imaginative drawings, like turning a running form into a slithering snake.
  • Supports Overall Cognitive Development: Form drawing engages both analytical and creative aspects of the brain, promoting balanced development.
Engaging Activities in Second Grade Form Drawing:
Waldorf teachers introduce form drawing through imaginative stories and movement activities. Children might:
  • Walk or "air-draw" the forms before drawing them on paper.
  • Practice with chalk to encourage free exploration without pressure.
  • Explore symmetry by completing the other half of a mirror form.
  • Transform forms into creative drawings like animal fables.

In summary, Earthschooling Waldorf Second Grade Form Drawing is a valuable practice that cultivates essential skills and encourages artistic expression, providing a solid foundation for your child's holistic development.

Living Lessons are video lessons where a teacher leads the class through the main lessons for this grade. You can use these lessons as examples to follow for your own teaching or can use them as supplements to your own teaching (we all need a break now and then. I would have loved to have these available on days I was ill or was taking care of my fussy baby).

This block includes step-by-step instructions for teaching all the basic forms for second grade. It also includes the e-book “Waldorf Form Drawing Basics” and access to all the Main Lesson Book pages for second grade form drawing. This block is laid out in such a way that there is no teacher preparation for the lessons. This includes the unique lesson, “Herbal Form Drawing”.



Your Instructor


​​Mellie Mae Lonneman
​​Mellie Mae Lonneman

Mellie Mae Lonnemann lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her husband and two sons. Mellie was a class teacher at the Green Meadow Waldorf School in Chestnut Ridge, NY before the arrival of her first son, Joseph. She then taught homeschool students morning lessons, clay art, quilting, and gardening. She taught handwork at the Asheville Waldorf School before the birth of her second son..Mellie received her Waldorf Teacher Certificate from Sunbridge Institute, a BFA with a concentration in ceramics from Alfred University, and an Art Certificate in Professional Maiolica from the Ballardini State Institute of Art in Faenza, Italy. Mellie loves spending time outdoors, being creative, and learning from her beautiful sons! She wishes to impart a love for learning through curiosity, discovery and creativity. 


Course Curriculum


  Second Grade Form Drawing Block
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