Desert Marigold School

🌸 Join Us for Desert Marigold’s Annual Spring Faire and optional 5K fun run! 🌸

The grass is green with clover, the animals are frolicking, and family fun is everywhere you look! Bring the whole family for a joyful day filled with games, crafts, treats, and springtime magic.

Desert Marigold School is delighted to introduce our very first 5K Fun Run at our Annual Spring Festival. This community centered event invites families, and friends to run or walk a beautiful course around our campus. Along the way, participants will encounter friendly animals, vibrant class booth, and opportunities to pause, connect and celebrate movement together.

✨ Featured Booths & Activities ✨

🍪 Bake Shoppe (EC & 7th Grade) – Delicious homemade treats you won’t want to miss!

🎯 Ring Toss (1st & 6th Grade) – Test your aim and win a prize!

🌼 Flower Crowns (2nd Grade) – Create a beautiful spring crown to wear home.

🎨 Flower Pot Painting (3rd Grade) – Decorate a pot and get ready to plant something special.

🐔 Chicken Scratch Game (4th Grade) – A fun, farm-themed challenge for all ages.

🏃 Obstacle Course (5th Grade) – Run, jump, and race your friends!

🚣 Boat Rides (8th Grade) – A magical spring adventure on the water.

💫 Face Painting, Hair Tinsel & Braiding (9th–12th Grade) – Get festival-ready with sparkle and color!

🎪 More Fun Around the Faire

Board Booth with school info and community connections

Free activities for little ones

Animal coloring pages

Watching the court & enjoying square dancing

Foam play area for extra springtime silliness

“Pass the Pigs” tabletop game while you eat and relax

🌷 Come celebrate spring, community, and joyful play at the Desert Marigold Spring Faire! 🌷

March 7 2026
9am - 5k Begins
(Registration Required)

9:30am - Festival Begins
(FREE Admission)

Desert Marigold School
6210 S 28th Street
Phoenix, Arizona
85042

Discover the Magic of Waldorf High School – Join Our Open House!

Come see what makes our high school experience truly unique! Just last week, our students immersed themselves in Work Week, one of our cherished Waldorf traditions. During this week, students:

Earned their Food Handlers’ Certification and CPR & First Aid training

Explored holistic health with sessions from an Eastern medicine doctor and acupuncturist

Delved into the wonders of science with an evolutionary biologist

Turned over the garden soil and planted seeds for our Spring garden

Beautified the banks of the Rio Salado river in a service learning project

Experienced entrepreneurship firsthand at a local Jiu-Jitsu studio

Guided by the core principles of Public Waldorf education, our high school program is designed for the developmental stage of ages 14–18. Students are supported as they grow into abstract and analytical thinking, self-awareness, and moral responsibility, preparing them to navigate a complex, ever-changing world.

This is just a glimpse of the hands-on, real-world learning and character-building our students enjoy every day.

DMHS Open House
Thursday, Feb 26
5pm to 6pm –
We can’t wait to meet you!

Shout out to our history teacher, Mr. Santiago, for bringing the past to life through story and beauty in a way that awakens the human imagination of his students. Walking through his classroom and seeing his chalkboard art is always a delight.

And thank you to one of our wonderfully creative students for their chalk mural of Abe Lincoln. Creativity truly abounds at Desert Marigold High School.

If you know someone who is longing for an education rooted in imagination, creativity, and meaning, feel free to share. Enrollment is currently open, and we still have space.

Calling all dreamers, candy lovers, oompa-loompas-in-training, and magical grown-ups!
Our students are whipping up a fantastically fizzy, magically musical, wildly whimsical performance of W***y Wonka Jr. on Dec 5th & 6th!

Come see the show!
Buy a shirt!
Win a raffle!
Avoid turning into a blueberry! 💜

Click below to purchase show tickets, raffle tickets, and tee-shirts:
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Reminder: DMS picture day coming up!

Desert Marigold is delighted to announce the return of our beloved Winter Faire!
Join us as our campus transforms into a sparkling celebration of the season filled with warmth and wonder.
Mark your calendars and begin dreaming of the magic to come!
We invite you to share this news so it reaches our wider community!

Step into the wonder of autumn at our annual Waldorf Halloween Carnival!
Families and friends from our school and the wider community are warmly invited to gather for a night of wholesome fun. Our famous chili contest will return, along with games, costume contests, prizes, and even a spooky house for the little ones and a haunted house for older children. Come celebrate the season in the spirit of play and togetherness.

Please see the flyer for times and costume guidelines! Can't wait to see you all!

The festival of Michaelmas is both a joyful community event and a reminder that, as the darker season approaches, we meet it with strength and inner light. Each year on the autumn equinox our entire school community celebrates this day together with dragon bread, games, songs, and the courage to face what comes together and with joy.

In our beautiful farmhouse, all students in grades K–12 take part in handwork, which includes knitting, sewing, crocheting, paper art, needle felting, leather working, and more. These practical arts are embraced not only as a form of self-expression but as a way for the brain and body to unite in deeper patterns of sensory integration and bilateral growth. They strengthen neural pathways connected to language, math, spatial reasoning, and problem-solving, while also supporting emotional regulation and connection to oneself. As with much of Waldorf-inspired education, the work lives on multiple levels within the human being, guiding the child as they grow into who they are meant to be.

On our 12-acre campus in Phoenix, Arizona, the year has begun, but the doors are still open. We welcome new students to this unfolding journey of learning, creating, and becoming. Please share this with anyone who might be inspired to join us.

Enroll Now:https://www.desertmarigold.org/apply-now

We would love to welcome our community to the first Waldorf Education Night of the year! All are invited! Bring a friend, neighbor, or family member! Learn about the history of Waldorf education and connect with our blossoming school community.