THANK YOU CARD - Pista shells

Gratitude is one of the most amazing personality trait, I strongly believe which makes a long beautiful relationship among people. Receiving or returning kindness always gives a pleasant feel. Every moment or every person we meet in our life will give us a learning or will impact or influence us. 

I am grateful to......

•  all the key workers who helped us to stay safe and calm fighting all the odds during this pandemic to make our life more comfortable and stable. 
• Teachers and all the school staff, who were all working during these hard times handling Online Classes, sharing home learning packs, weekly phone conversations with their students to ensure the children are safe and comfortable, enquiring about the basic needs of the family and their support for meeting our needs. Children were prepared psychologically comfortable to face this situation and keeping them in track of their missed classes and lessons.
• The Almighty for giving us good health, strength and courage to handle such tough situations and protecting the world.

A token of Gratitude for NHS staff, we created this beautiful Rainbow - Symbol of God's Mercy. T

To spread a positive message, we created this pinwheel

My 9 year old surprised us with this cute, Thank you card for his teacher, Ms. Predeth for all the support and guidance. Proud moment as parents, looking at his kindness for his teacher.

Thank you cards are always very special. It shows heartfelt love for us . It's really a proud moment for us, making us feel that I have somewhere helped a person,in a way which made them in turn to show their love. 

Let's always make our turn to thank people , especially our teachers, who plays an important role in our life, making it more valuable.

Today, we are sharing a thank you card made by my 9 year old for his teacher.

Linking it up for July Gratitude circle by at Vidya's space

Wordless Wednesday - A Stand alone guide.

Enjoying summer breeze under this stand alone majestic tree is a different feel. Marking a landmark in the walking path, you are always in our sight. 

Sharing this for Wordless Wednesday

@ Natasha's space.

#Thursday Treeslove at Parul' s space.

Wordless Wednesday - Blooms

I adore leisure walks especially during Spring and Summer season. It always gives me a happy refreshing feel on seeing the colourful blooms all along the walking path.

Smiling flowers, fresh green trees and plants, gentle breeze ..what else is expected more to make you feel relaxed and cheerful.

Caught sight of this bloom in three phases, green buds 

White flower buds

White cute flowers

Sharing these blooms for Wordless Wednesday, a blog hop in Natasha's space.

FACT FILE - Importance of Précis Writing in Children

Fact file is an interesting activity for children. It helps to learn the facts about the things chosen. My son had to prepare fact file about any one of extinct animals in Ice Age. 
I personally consider this activity as one of the child's cognitive development activity. They get opportunity to read more resources, collect the information and then precise facts from the gathered information. 

A precis is a summary. Precis writing is an exercise in compression. Explaining the whole information in as few words as possible giving all essential facts. 

By this practice of writing, children learn quickly and able to speak or write only the important piece of information to be shared rather than an elaborated statements.

We can practise our children with précis writing method while learning and it's an easy way to quickly revise the concepts or understand in a better way.

Happy Parenting !!

TOMATO CAT - Fun in the kitchen

Here comes an interesting edible craft for Children to enjoy and play. Most of the children of the age 3-6 years would love to play with fruits and vegetables, cooking kitchen set.

This is a simple quick craft created to teach my daughter for a vegetable fun activity in her school.

Things Required:

Tomatoes - 2

Red chillies - 2

Tooth picks -1

Black pepper -2

Coconut fibres -3

Dried Turkey berry  - 1

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Hold the tomatoes together using the tooth pick.

2) Fix peppercorns for the eyes.

3) Cut the edge of chillies and fit the ears.

4) Fix Nose and  whiskers using Dried Turkey berry and coconut fibres.

5) Fix the tail using long dried red chilli.

Tomato Cat is ready to play with.

Linking it to Pari's Create and Carve Event .

Sending this to Kids Friendly Crafts Event .

TREES ARE THE GUARDIAN ANGELS

Looking at these five different trees together guarding an elderly care home defines me of a divine relationship.

I relate these trees to all the carers who takes care of them. They are truly 'Guardian Angels'.

Sharing this for Thursday's Tree love , a blog hop at Paruls space.

Wordless Wednesday

Am an admirer of Rain, love the smell of Petrichor. Rain will hailstones, still an amazing sight. 

Today, I am sharing the images of hailstone rainfall for #Wordless Wednesday. in Natasha's Musings, and 'Corners of my world' by Betty, Happy to be a part of Wordless Wednesday.

SUNFLOWER - INSPIRATIONAL DRAWING FROM VINCENT VAN GOGH

Today, I am sharing Sunflower drawing by my younger one, inspired by the Sunflower painting of Vincent Van Gogh.

He re-created the drawing as an art challenge activity. Observe the paintings of the artist and draw them as from your memory without re-looking into the original drawing.

This was an activity for Child's observational and memory skills. He truly accepted and enjoyed this activity.

As a parent and a counsellor, these kinds of activities will enhance the child's memory skills. It improves Observational and Concentration skills.

This is the Original painting .

PENQUIN - A bird of Admiration and Adoration

Penquin - definitely a bird of Admiration and Adoration. 

Who wouldn't love to watch this bird in your near vicinity. 'I wish to see Penquins' would be one among the wish-to-see list of many of us. Yes, definitely, it was in my wish to see list.

A dream come true, watched these penguins in a Birdland park. Again, it was an awestuck moment with cheerful tears rolling down. 

Hurray ! Penquins !!! I saw them and excited to feed them. These words were repeatedly whispered to my hubby as I was standing in the queue to feed them. 

Of course, with tears and racing heartbeats, it was a pleasant pleasure. 

Look how they are sleeping in a standing position, amazing to watch them.

They sleep with their feets raised up. Puzzled to see it - how they could stand steady while sleeping ...God's creation.

Sharing these for Wordless Wednesday hosted by Sandee, Natasha& Esha and My Corner of the world blog hop by Betty

WEEPING WILLOW TREE

Green Environment always gives a feel of  happiness and peace. I always a short break in nature trails. 

Today, I am sharing a picture of a Weeping tree for # Treeslove .I

We happened to see this amazing tree in Birdpark, Bourton on Water, UK. It was a memorable sight of  those hanging branches. I learnt about the weeping tree for the first time.

Weeping trees have branches that droop towards the ground. Weeping is generally caused by a mutation that does not grow true from seeds.

Discovering the interesting hidden traits of nature is truly puzzling. 

Linking it with Parul's #Treelove 90. 

Wordless Wednesday

Awestuck moments - whenever you remember those moments, again we will be awestuck. 

I always have a phobia for birds with every close encounter with them but I love to watch them at a distance. Whenever a chick or pigeon or a parrot sits over me, I have a racing heartbeat, sweats and dizziness. 

I had few negative encounters with Hen, Cocks and Crow during my school days. In a 80 acres of Space, my school had more trees, we used to have our lunch in the open ground along with friends in groups. During lunch break, almost everyday, we encountered with crows around. Once, during a school assembly, a crow fell down dead on my friend, who stood right in front of me. I couldn't imagine that sight even now, it gives more pain. Carrying all these sights, I started stepping away from the birds.

But, as years passed by, growing with more strength and courage everyday, slowly started to watch them again. We visited a Birdland park and happened to get sight of this Owl and Owlet in a very close view. We were awestuck with such amazing creatures.

Sharing my awestuck moments with you for #Wordless Wednesday. in Natasha's space. Happy to be a part of Wordless Wednesday

DIY- PEN STAND

Today, I am sharing a simple DIY - Pen Stand. 

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

• Empty Actimel bottles - 5 nos
• Any round shape box lid
• Glue
• Colours

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1. Clean the actimel bottles well and remove the wrappers.

2. Decorate the empty bottles of your choice design. I designed Warli art.

3. Glue the bottles to the box lid. Allow it to dry well for a day.

4. Once dried completely, fill it with paint brushes, pens and pencils.

OCEAN LIFE - POSTER

Hi all,

Today I am sharing a poster created by my daughter for World Ocean Day celebrated on June 5th. This is an art challenge - Paper art. 

As a part of her campaign, she wrote an article in her school magazine.

PLASTIC IS A BIG THREAT TO OUR HOME, PORTSMOUTH 

Plastics give us a helping hand, but they are polluting our land! 

Plastic – as everyone knows is a very consequential issue around the world and now it is the greatest curse to our home, Portsmouth! 

The ‘Curse’ of Plastics is now widely germinating many menaces related to the life on Earth. Most of the things that we use is all, nothing but Plastic! Almost 99% of rubbish composes Plastic. This never spared the marine life either. Many campaigns like #SAVETHETURTLES and #SAVETHEWHALES are conducted to spread awareness about it. It affected marine life simultaneously along with the terrestrial living.  

All our surroundings are getting submerged with it. Currently, most of the plastics are thermosetting plastics. From saucepans to electrical sockets. Now, we need to stop it. Some plastics are told to be recycled and Biodegradable, but none can be exactly disposed. We need to make a change. Plastic causes cancer and when burnt, it releases harmful gases into the air and causes global warming and Respiratory diseases as well, developing into CLIMATE CHANGE!  

We can follow the 5R’s policy. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repurpose and Refuse!! Always throw away plastic where it is to be disposed like the separate bins for plastic waste. 

Recently, the garden arenas of Clarence Pier, near the sea, have been littered around with a lot of plastic right from food sachets to bottles. Tourists don’t take care for the area; no one uses the trash bins to dispose plastic waste. These are places where a lot of public would love to visit and hence should be maintained neat and tidy.  

Plastics don’t just cause harm for human race; they harm our beloved pets as well. A survey reveals that more than 1000 animals are dying in a week due to plastic consumption! Plastic also causes disturbance for the tourists who visit the sea fronts. Here, the blessing of durability of plastics becomes the curse of our ecosystem. 

Go green, no plastic, everything is fantastic! 

TYPES OF ROCKS POSTER

Today, we are sharing yet another interesting school project, Types of Rocks. 

Steps to be followed:

1. Knead a small ball of maida dough. Allow it to dry for few hours or overnight. This will get dried up outside, leaving out some dried patches.

2. Roll small dough of it and roll out and flatten it. Keep this a base for a look alike rock. 

For Metamorphic Rock, we painted it with Glitter colour paint.

For Sedimentary Rocks, attached two or layers of dough and paint two colours at the same stroke to looks like sediments texture.

For Igneous Rocks, glue a small piece of scrubber and then paint to give a porous texture.

3) Glue them to the paper and design your poster on Rocks.

Happy Parenting !

CAVE PAINTING PROJECT

Cave painting is one of those interesting form of art for children. In general, Cave painting depicts the way of life people followed in prehistoric days. They are recorded to know about history and culture. The interesting aspect of those cave art is the creation of simple figures for humans and animals. It tells us more stories about the prehistoric days.

My nine year old is studying about prehistoric life, this was given us an activity for him to draw his own cave painting depicting a story. Have a look of his cave painting .

FOSSILISATION POSTER

Hi all,

Today, we are sharing one of the interesting school project - Fossilisation. My 9 year old is learning about fossils. This was given as one of his home learning activity.




Fossilisation is the process of formation of fossils - how fossils are formed.

Let's see how we designed this poster.

Materials required:

Maida
Colours


Steps to be followed:

1. Knead a small ball of maida dough. Allow it to dry for few hours or overnight. This will get dried up outside, leaving out some dried patches.

2. Roll small dough of it and roll out and flatten it. Keep this a base for a look alike rock.

3. In Stage 1, we drew a dinosaur and cut out the shape and glue to the rock. If any animal dies on land , will be covered by layers of sediment.

4. In Stage 2,  over timeItime with layers of rocks over it, leaving only the skeleton.

5. In Stage 3, the skeleton gets buried with many layers of rocks by natural.

6. In Stage 4, for fossil, we designed a skeleton using hot glue and placed leaving half way open, depicting due to erosion or wavering of rocks, fossils are found.

3. Cut a picture of dinosaur and use it in the first stage.

4. In the second stage

NOSTALGIC - DOWN THE MEMORY LANE

Down the memory lane, 15 years before clicked these Coconut trees in our farm, holding heads high with pride on the bank of River Vaigai in my native village near Madurai.

Lovely and feeling nostalgic on seeing this picture. The tender coconut tastes unique and am addicted to it. I haven't yet tasted the same sweetness of those tender coconut anywhere later. Grandparents were really a blessing for us. Missing both of them, but could feel their love and warmth always around me.

Waiting for the time to visit the farm and the village again.

Sharing this for Parul's Thursday Tree love 89 .

LOOKING ABOUT MYSELF POSTER

Looking about myself - a good theme for children to know better about themselves. Creating a poster is an awesome concept to depict their thoughts. 

Self analyzation or realisation is an important quality that needs to be inculcated in children, to know about themselves better, understand their needs and build up their personality. They should be able to find the difference between good and bad behaviour, how to communicate with others, use of vocabulary in their communication. It will inculcate the attitude of enquiry in a positive way.

This poster is one of the activity given as part of home learning. 

This poster is created by my 9 year. 

INSPIRATIONAL ART CHALLENGE

Hi all,

Today, I am sharing creations by my daughter for a Toilet or Kitchen Roll Art Challenge for inspiration : Re-create a famous piece of art.

She recreated one of the famous painting, The Starry night by Vincent Van Gogh.

The Second creation is depicting Madhubani art.