The Waldorf festival calendar, 2026 to 2027

Light a candle for each remembered name, share stories of grandparents, place flowers or photos on a small altar.

Craft paper lanterns, learn the lantern songs, gather at sundown, share soup and bread.

Lay the spiral with pine boughs, hollow apples for beeswax candles, sing in hushed reverence.

Candlelight meal, solstice story, vigil for the returning sun, sunrise walk if you can.

Set the nativity on Christmas Eve, light the tree, sing the old carols, share a candlelit meal.

Star procession by candlelight, bake a kings-cake, take down the nativity, chalk a blessing above the door.

Dip beeswax candles, bless the year’s candles, notice snowdrops and the lengthening light.

Make costumes and masks, bake pancakes or doughnuts, dance and sing through the house.

Plant Easter grass gardens, dye eggs with onion skins, build a moss garden with a stone tomb, bake hot cross buns.

Weave flower crowns, set up the pole and ribbons, light a Walpurgis fire on the eve, gather the first wildflowers.

Walk to a hilltop or open sky, watch the clouds, fly a kite, read the Ascension story.

Decorate the home with white and red flowers, hang paper doves, share a meal with friends or neighbours.

Build a small fire safely, leap the ashes, gather St John’s wort and midsummer herbs, stay up for the short night.

Bake dragon bread, forge Michael stars, stage the dragon play, share the harvest.

Bake bread from fresh-ground grain, build a harvest table with garden produce, share thanks before the meal.