Wednesday 15 December 2010

CHRISTMAS CRAFTS EVENT 2010

Hai !!!!!!!!

I am back here again with this festive event ' CHRISTMAS CRAFTS EVENT 2010 ' .
I invite you all to this creative event and make a memorable event .


RULES :

1) Create any christmas craft/ornaments or crafts related to christmas . Post it in your blog with the link back to this event .

2) Please feel free to use the logo .

3) Archieved entries and multiple entries are allowed.

4) Send ur entries to shamanagscrafts@gmail.com . Last date : 31,December 2010.

Enjoy and have fun !!!!!!!


Tuesday 14 December 2010

RE- ENTRY FOR ARTSY- CRAFSTY CHALLENGE

This Tomato Cat goes to Artsy - Craftsy Challenge December 2010 .



Arrange tomatoes to form the tummy and face for the cat . Use pepper for eyes and red chillies horn . Green chilly for nose and coconut shell fibres for whiskers . Tomato cat is ready

Monday 9 August 2010

SPARROW CRAFT EVENT ROUNDUP!!!!!!

Hello Friends ,

Finally came with the roundup of Sparrow Craft Event . Thank you for all the participants for their wonderful crafts .

Here comes their cute works ,

Vidhya's Wonderful Work .


Aruljothi's cute embroidery .


Harsha's wonderful works :



Chinmayee's Beautiful Sparrow .


Nithya's Cute drawing .


and

My Paper Sparrow

Friday 30 July 2010

PAPER SPARROW

This craft is for my Sparrow craft event .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :


Chart paper - 1
Colour pens
Glue
Scissors

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Take a small portion of chart paper .


2) Fold it in the centre .


3) Draw a semi circle near the folded portion . This for the body of sparrow .


4) Cut it out and glue the open sides . Similarly , draw head , feathers , legs , beak and wing in the chart paper and cut it out .


5 ) Finally , glue the parts to the body and then colour it . Sparrow is ready to play with .



Thursday 29 July 2010

BINOCULAR

This is done as a part of my daughter's My Circle Project .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Chart paper - 1
Glue
Colour pens



STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw 2 trapezium in the chart paper and cut it out .


2) Roll it out and glue them .

3) This will help to see two circles , small and big as seen in this picture.


4) Then make a small hole near the small circle and tie both the rolls with a thick thread .Finally decorate it with colour pens . Binocular is ready to play with.




Tuesday 27 July 2010

CIRCLE CRAFT

This is done for my daughters My Circle Craft project . This will help her to study various sizes of circles and sphere .



MATERIALS NEEDED :


Thermocol sheet - 1
Waste bangles of various sizes
Balls of various sizes
Coins - 1 rp , 50 ps , 25 ps
Buttons
Waste CD and waste bottle caps


Wednesday 21 July 2010

BANGLES FLOWER

I did this as a part of my daugther's My Circle Crafts Project in her school .This took only 10 minutes ...this was done in a hurry before my daughter's van arrival.



MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Waste bangles - 7
Crayons
Chart paper
Glue


STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw a picture of flower and glue the bangles . Colour the petals .
2) You can even frame it .

This goes to
Treasure from Trash hosted by Mindful menderings

Sunday 4 July 2010

A BIG SORRY AND REPOSTS FOR TRASH EVENT

Dear friends ,

Sorry , due to some technical issues i couldn't make any post for a long time in my crafts blog . I couldn't make the roundup for my sparrow crafts event . So , i decided to host the same event for this month also . Please do participate and make the event a successful one . Thank you friends for visiting my blog even in my absence .

Cheers

Shama

Event :

March 20 is celebrated as World Sparrow day . An enjoyable event to celebrate this day .


RULES :

1) Do crafts related to sparrow like pencil sketching , painting , paper crafts , toys , embroidery , poem etc......

2) Post it in your blog with a link back to the event .

3) Send your crafts to shamanagscrafts@gmail.com before July 31 , 2010 .Please send the following details :

a) Name
b) Craft Name
c) Link
d) Photo
e) Type of craft


4) Please use the logo . Entries from older posts and multiple entries are allowed .

Enjoy and have more fun .


Some reposts for
Treasure from Trash hosted by Mindful menderings .

1)
A Simple gift box .
2) A Show Piece .
3) Flowers from Peanut shell .
4) Flowers from Pencil shavings
5) Paper Clock
6) Paper Ship



7)
Paper Doll
8) CD Wall hanging :

Tuesday 13 April 2010

FORGOTTEN INDIAN GAMES--PALANGGULI

Picture courtesy : Google

Palangguli is one of the famous games played by womens in Tamilnadu . Hope , each and every house will have this board . I have it in silver , gifted by my mom during my marriage .It is in my in-laws place ,so I cannot take a photo of my own .

Rules of the game :

1) It is a two player game . Each one will take 7 cups each .
2)Each cup will have 6 seeds . Usually , we will play with tamarind seeds .

3) Firstplayer have to lift the seeds from any of her cups and distribute the seeds one by one in each cup, starting from the cup rightside to the cup from she took the seeds.
4) Once the six seeds over , she takes seeds from the next cup immediately after that cup and repeat step 3 . If she reaches the end of her cups, she need to drop seeds in her opponent player's cups.

5) She has to drop the seeds until the last seed fell into a cup with an empty cup beyond. Once it had occured , she can take the seeds in the cup beyond the empty cup and store it for her.

6) Then the second player starts to play in the same way .

7) If for any one of the players , when the last seed fell into a cup with two empty cups beyond, they never takes seeds and their turn is over.

8) The first round is over when there are no seeds .

9) Players have to fill their cups with the seeds they earned .Player with more seeds is declared the winner. The loser of the first round will be unable to fill all of his holes.

10) In the next round play continues as before without considering the empty holes .

11) The game is over when a player doesn't fill any of his cups with 6 seeds .

Sending this to Nivedita's Forgotten indian games .

Monday 12 April 2010

FORGOTTEN INDIAN GAMES

CHOTANGKALLU (GAME WITH STONES)

This is one of the games played mostly in south indian villages .

This game is played with 6 stones . All you have to do is to

1) Throw one stone first , tap the ground and catch it with the same hand .

2) Hold it it hand , repeat step 1 again . Catch the second stone with the right hand holding the first catched one.

3) Repeat the above steps for all the 6 stones .

4) Person catching all the 6 stones without a sinlge drop is the winner.


Sending this to Nivedita's Forgotten indian games .

Wednesday 17 March 2010

SPARROW CRAFTS EVENT'10

March 20 is celebrated as World Sparrow day . An enjoyable event to celebrate this day .


RULES :

1) Do crafts related to sparrow like pencil sketching , painting , paper crafts , toys , embroidery , poem etc......

2) Post it in your blog with a link back to the event .

3) Send your crafts to shamanagscrafts@gmail.com before April 17 , 2010 .Please send the following details :

a) Name
b) Craft Name
c) Link
d) Photo
e) Type of craft


4) Please use the logo . Entries from older posts and multiple entries are allowed .

Enjoy and have more fun .

Tuesday 2 March 2010

A WEEKEND TRIP TO ANATHAGIRI - PADMANABHA SWAMY TEMPLE

Sri Anantha Padmanaba Swamy is located on Ananthagiri hills which is 75 km from Hyderabad.It is a lovely temple to visit . It is a very old temple in which swamy idol is different from the usual balaji statue . Lord vishnu is in the form of Sri Anantha Padmanaba Swamy.
This temple have an underground way to Kasi . This temple was installed by Rishi Markandeya .
The main temple was built by hyderabad nawab . To know more about the temple CLICK HERE.

We had a weekend trip to this temple . It was a wonderful drive through the forest of Ananthagiri Hills . A must place to visit .

Front View of the temple , with huge statues of Lord Anjaneya and Lord Garuda .


This huge tomb is used to lit lights during festivals . They will place lights in each stone .



Very old ganesh idol in the entrance .


Lord Shiva(Lingam ) in the temple .



Statue of Nandi in the front of lingam shrine.



A stand to lit lamp in front of it .


Some forts in the hills ,




Fishes in the pond ,






Sending this to Jagurti's Joy of Cooking while travelling .

PPT - CHARLES DICKENS