EARTH DAY ACTIVITY

Earth Day is celebrated on April 22th. It is observed as an awareness day to save the nature earth. We can teach children in general about the goodness of nature, our environment and what more we have lost due to modernisation, what can be done to save our Earth.

It's always fun and more effective, if we teach children about any lesson by means of visual activities involving them. Once such activity is Earth day activity. 

We are sharing our activity for this year 2020. 

Things Required :

Any old transparent lid/ or paper plate

Acrylic colours

Circle cutouts

Steps to be followed : 

1) Rub little water in the plate. Mix Green and Blue colours in it.

2) Place the circle cutout and press gently the sides of the paper so that the colours are equally observed.

3) Take the paper carefully and allow it to dry completely. Earth template is ready.

WHO AM I? FIND ME - FUN PROJECT WITH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

Hi ,

Greetings of the day !! 

Are the kids bored of playing toys and watching cartoons all through the day during a long vacation? 

Managing households and engaging children at home is a very challenging work for parents. My children loves solving puzzles and riddles or any quiz in education websites. 

We looked up and thought for a while, Why don't we create and play an activity. To start with, I designed this simple and easy fun project . Find the names of Vegetables or Fruits from the hints given.

Steps we followed to design the project:

Make a chart with Fruits and Vegetables pictures.

Some hint questions for the children to find, read and write the name in the blanks.

Answers:

DORY AND NEMO - UNDERWATER LIFE

Hi,

Today, I am sharing my 8 yr old creation after reading and watching Finding Dory.

Children love to watch animation movies  with their favourite fantasy characters from the stories read by them. When they read books, they would definitely visualize the story line by line. They would bring life to the pictures shared in the book.

Some children would re-collect the visuals from the movies or pictures shown in their favourite story book . Either they prefer similar character toys to play with or draw them to depict the story.

Re-collecting the visuals of the characters and bring them to life back in the form of art is highly appreciated. It's a kind of child's development skill, it shows child's observation or concentration or their memory .

As a parenting moment, let's encourage our children to read books and write the book review.

He painted on A4 sheet, pencil waste Nemo and Dory fishes, balloon whale, transparent sheet jelly wish and mixed coloured octopus cut out.

Happy Parenting !!

What is the colour of water ?

Hi ,

Greetings for the day !!

Today we are sharing you a simple project - What is the colour of the water?.

What is the colour of water? Why the sea is in blue colour? Who painted the sea blue?
These are FAQ's of children in the age group 5 yrs -10 years. Let's explain them by a diagram.

When white light travels through water in Ocean,
* Red, Orange and Yellow colour of the light has low energy levels gets easily absorbed by the water.

* Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet colour lights has high energy levels, they still penetrate deeper into water than the other colours. All the colours slowly fade off except blue. The blue light reflects back giving Blue colour to the ocean.

* After 1 km, the light cannot penetrate, hence the sea is darker.

PINWHEEL FAN

Spring is one of the most awaited season be everyone. Wind breeze, Trees getting their new leaves and blossoming colourful flowers, chirping of the birds, bright sunny day and lot more to enjoy. 

We have crafted this pinwheel fan, to keep in our garden welcoming the Spring !!!

Things Required: 

Colour papers 

Glue

Old earring

Paper straw

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED: 

1) Cut out 8 triangles of the same size. 

2) Glue the triangles to the circle cutout as shown in the video.

3) Turn back and glue the triangle sides backward.

4) Fix the earring in the centre of the wheel and the straw on the back.

STRING DOLL PUPPET

Puppets are in general attracts children. They love and get amazed by watching puppets show. Puppets play an unknowingly vital role in child's communication skills. A Soft toy or a doll acts as a puppet for children. Most of the children love playing with soft toy. They think and consider them to be their best buddy and starts to speak with them, either they use them to convey their parents or play with their friends.

I still remember playing with a soft puppy doll, naming the doll, feeding it and carry it wherever I go. Sometimes, playing and talking alone with soft toys will bring emotional disturbances in them. 
As parents, we should observe them and be aware of all their stories carefully. Not all children will have such disturbances. May not all parents get time to play and speak with the children because of their work schedule. Better you communicate with your children everyday not to let them trapped by such disturbances.

In a smart way, we can take care of our children. We can teach them how to use the puppet or play with it. 

Puppets can be used as props for story telling, use them to teach daily lessons to your children. Anything delivered in an interesting way, help children to remember the concepts. Puppets are vital teaching aid/tool in preprimary education.

Let's make everything interesting for our children to learn concepts naturally. 

Instead of playing with a gifted toy or a puppet, their happiness doubles if they create their own puppet. How will they miss the fun while designing their own puppet. 

Let's roll on our sleeves and create our puppet.

Materials Required:

Any old wooden beaded bracelet or a necklace.
Decorating pipe cleaners or strings
Old bangle and threads.

Steps to be followed:

1) Cut out a pipe liner of your desirable size. Add beads to them to design a doll.

2) Attach strings to the hands of the doll and tie the strings to the bangle.

3) String doll puppet is ready to share you a story.

EASTER EGGS

During Easter, children love to go for Easter egg hunting. They play games for egg hunting. Creating their own Easter eggs is one of their fun activity during Easter. 

We also played Egg hunting. This is what we hunted for this Easter.

Materials Required :

A4 Sheets
Colours
Glue
Egg shells
Craft scissor
Pim pom balls


Steps to be followed :

Draw and cut out egg templates using craft scissor. We decorated our Easter eggs with finger prints, pim pom balls, painted crushed egg shells and Nail polish brush paints.

RAINBOW - SYMBOL OF GOD'S MERCY

Rainbow - a colourful and amazing sight, gives happiness. During this crisis of pandemic spread, there is a complete lockdown of life across the world. The Whole world is praying to save and hopefully waiting for the God's blessing to end this pandemic. 

Every nation follows their own belief to offer their prayers to God. Here, in UK, the Queen expressed her wish to display Rainbow in all the houses, as a stand together to overcome this crisis. In General, the sight of a rainbow is said to be a blessing, thanking god for promising us to protect from all the trouble. Rainbow symbolises God's mercy and the promise made with the mankind not to destroy the world in such a way again.

We all should stand together irrespective of our roots to fight against this crisis and bring back our standstill life back to normal with a welcoming smile. 

Today, we are sharing a Rainbow activity created for a cause. Let all our prayers flatten the curves and saves life. Stay Home Stay Lives.

Materials Required :

A4 white sheets
Crumbled tissues
Acrylic colours
Glue
Craft Scissor

Steps to be Followed :

1) Draw the online of Rainbow in a sheet.

2) Cut 7 strips for VIBGYOR colours using Craft scissors. 

3) Paint the strips of VIBGYOR colours. Allow to to dry completely. Fold the strips to create pattern as shown. 

4) Take a sheet, glue the strips to form a Rainbow.

5) Glue, crumbled tissues to form Clouds. Our Rainbow is Ready for the cause.

SOLAR SYSTEM

Greetings for the day !!

Learning about the Solar System? .

Yes, today we are sharing a fun filled activity for learning solar system. Each and every child have unique way of learning styles which makes them different from the other.

- Some children, read the book, understand the concept and learn, write the concepts thoroughly.
- Few loves only to read and learn the concepts but doesn't show interest in writing.
- Few will only love to write down their learnt concepts, doesn't show interest in telling or explaining or reading loudly.

  and there are many more learning approaches or unique styles.

Classroom observation or attending the whole session without distraction plays an important role in child's learning process.

- Some children will observe the teacher teaching in the class. Try to make notes or points to remember, read the learnt concepts back in home. Encourage such children to work more on making journals of their regular classroom activities to support their learning style.

- Few may not able to recollect the learning in the classroom, they don't remember the concepts. It doesn't mean that the child is having a learning difficulty or disability. Some of these children will be able to understand the concepts when taught through visuals of the concepts either by a drawing or videos or pictures.

In general, whatever may be their learning style, hands on experience activities by themselves will definitely make children to remember things better.

My son painted the Solar System, using finger prints and recollected the concepts thought in his class. He was able to rightly label the planets in order, spoke about the planets and galaxy. Here, comes how he created the solar system.

Materials Required :

Waste transparent snack box case
Poster colours

Steps Followed:

Clean the case. Dry it out. Draw concentric circles. Colour mark the planets using finger prints and decorate the system with stars.

Allow it to dry for 20 minutes and then label the planets.

Solar system is ready to study. Recreate your solar system and share your experience, how much you enjoyed the activity.

COLOURS OF DARKNESS

Today, we are sharing a scratch paper work created by my daughter with the theme Colours of Darkness for an art competition. 

She came with this art depicting Music, Stars in the sky and Sweet dreams during Night. They form the colours of darkness. Happy for her creation. 

Happy Parenting !!

HOLIDAY FUN ACTIVITY FOR KIDS - VIKING COSTUME FOR BOYS

Hi all,

With the current lockdown situation, to keep the children engaged, we scheduled their time with lots of fun activities. We are spending more time with them to have more quality moments. Excluding their online school classes, here we tried to have one such fun activity, dressing up like Viking Pirates. 

Our young kid is learning about Vikings in their Social/ History class, he speaks more about them, he crafted his own armour and axes at home. Today, I am sharing his virtual learning concept and crafts designed by himself to look like a Viking Pirate.

Materials Required :

Waste cardboard

Folder sticks -2

Drying cloth clips

Origami Sword

Hairbands

Horn Cutouts

Simple costume at home

Boots( Long Rain boots)

Steps to be followed :

1) Painted the cardboard to craft armour or shield.

2) Attach clips to the File sticks to shape axe.

3) Dress up your child in the costume. Viking Pirate is ready.

Happy Parenting !!!