HOLI

Holi is a festival celebrated to welcome the ' SPRING SEASON ' in India. Nowadays in all the preschools , they celebrate all the festivals . This help the kids to know about the festivals .

Here is the way , i used to teach my lil one with holi pictures from magazines .






Linking this with Holi Craft Event .

and also with
Show and tell # 55
Fun for kids friday #8
Play Academy # 37

EGG SHELL EARTH / MOSAIC ART

MATERIALS REQUIRED : 

Egg shells - crushed
Acrylic Colours
Glue
A4 sheet

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED:



1) Draw a circle in a plain sheet.
2) Apply glue to it . Then , stick the egg shells to it.
3) Allow it to dry for few hours.
4) Then , paint it with Earth colours. Earth is ready for Earth day activity.

Linking it with 
Show and tell # 55Fun for kids friday #8
Play Academy # 37

and Shruti's Arsty-Craftsy Challenge,Apr 2011 - Earth day.

COLOURING FUN WITH SHAPES

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Chart paper / Waste card paper
Watercolour
Waste comb and toothbrush

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw shape in the chart paper .
2) Cut the shapes out of it using penknife. It will look like stencil .
3) Place the shape stencil in a plain page .
4) Take comb and dip the brush in watercolour. Hold the comb tightly and brush the colour in the comb as shown.

5) Once done,remove the stencil . Shapes are coloured easily .
6) Then , mark the shapes with colour pens.




Linking it with Artsy Craftsy - April 

EARTH DAY --- THINGS TO BE DONE

This is the simple way of teaching our kids to know the importance of Earth day . This is my way of teaching my daugther .


Collect pictures relating to Earth Day from magazines and stick it to a note book . Teach them about it .

Page 1 :




Picture 1: Earth picture showing trees , animals , birds , water and humans.
Picture 2 : Plant trees
Picture 3 : Water the trees/plants
Picture 4: Grow plants in your home.

Page 2 :


Picture 1 : Say NO to plastic.
Picture 2: Make a habit of gifting Plants .
Picture 3 : Make house for birds in your home.

Page 3 :


Picture 1 : Fees birds
Picture 2 : Don't cut down trees.
Picture 3: Don't waste water.
Picture 4: Save water.

Page 4:

Picture 1: Grow your own garden.
Picture 2 : Know and use natural colours.
Picture 3 : Save plants
Picture 4: Reduce air pollution by the use of cycles.

Page 5:


Picture : Save and help animals.


Sending this to shruti's Arsty-Craftsy Challenge,Apr 2011 - Earth day.


Linking it to Fun for kids Friday 8

NATURE CHART

Nature Chart was done for my daughter for her Earth day Celebration in school .




Here the chart shows TREE , DESERT , BUTTERFLY , ICEBERG , GRASSLAND , SUNSET , RIVER , SNOW MOUNTAIN , GARDEN , MOUNTAIN , FLOWERS , RAINBOW , FRUITS AND VEGETABLES .

Sending this to shruti's Arsty-Craftsy Challenge,Apr 2011 - Earth day.



Linking with

For kids friday - 7

PP1 PROJECT WORK - OPPOSITES

This project work was done for my daughter's project work on Opposites .




She was more happy and excited on doing this work . This will be one of the best way of teaching kids . She was very happy as her teacher awarded her with Excellent grade . We did this using pictures from new papers and magazines .

Here goes the opposites ,

1) AWAKE - ASLEEP



2) TALL - SHORT & FAT - THIN & BIG - SMALL .


3) SIT-STAND ; HAPPY - SAD ; LAUGH - CRY ; BLACK - WHITE .


4) CLEAN - DIRTY .


5) YOUNG - OLD ; OPEN - CLOSE.


6) WOMAN - MAN ; OVER - UNDER .

7) COLD - HOT ; GIRL - BOY ; FAST - SLOW .

8) ABOVE - BELOW


9) SAME - DIFFERENT .


10) UP - DOWN

11) IN - OUT ; FAR - NEAR .

12 ) MORE - LESS

Linking this to

Show and Tell :




Play academy :

COLLAGE - TREE

This tree was done as a part of my daughter's school project , Nature Project .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Thermocol sheet - 1 small size
Leaves pictures from old magazines.
Brown colour papers from old magazines .
Glue.

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :


1) Draw the shape of a tree in the thermocol sheet . Cut it out with a thermocol cutter.
2) Then cut the leaves pictures from the magazines to the shapes that fit your tree shape and glue to it.
3) Then , cut the brown colour papers from the magazines to your trunk shape and glue to it .

Tree is ready . Your kids will enjoy this .

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

PROJECT ON TRANSPORTATION

This is the project which i made for my daughter's Transportation Day celebration in her school.This took one whole night .


MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Thermocol sheets -- 2 big size
Black colour sheet -- 2
Popsticks -- 1
Glue
Pebbles -4
Water colours


This picture shows model of ROAD TRANSPORT AND WATER TRANSPORT .

For roads,i used Black colour sheets , made Traffic Signal using Popstick , signal lights using colour cuttings from magazines .

For light house , i used waste invitiation card . I couldn't get a model of miniature of ship in a short time. So,i used cutting from magazine .For rocks, i used pebbles .


One more of this , bike cutting from paper .Popsticks showing signboard.

View from the top ,


This sheet shows model of RAILWAYS AND AIRWAYS .

For tracks , i used popsticks . For runway and helipad , i used black colour sheet .



Thank you friends for having a look of this .

Linking this to :

Show and tell

NATURE DAY PROJECT

This is one of the project which i made for my daughter's school , Earth and Nature's Day Celebration .

Whole view,



Decorated small christmas tree with nest (made of coconut fibre) and eggs of small thermocol pieces.


For grassland,i used green colour sheet and water-coloured river. Made those mountains with aquarium small pebbles .

Carved and painted waterfalls in thermocol sheet,farm fields using woolen threads .




For Den,i used coconut shell.


For Tree , i drew the tree in thermocol sheet and cut it.Then , glued paper cutting from magazines for leaves and branches.