DIY - Lighthouse (Needles Lighthouse)

 

Last Sunday, we had a day trip to Isle of Wight, a beautiful island with lots of nature attractions. One of the most landmark attraction is the Needles Lighthouse. My younger one, was excited to watch Needles lighthouse.

The Needles Lighthouse is an active 19th century lighthouse located on the chalk rocks on the coast of the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom, near sea level. It was designed by James Walker and was completed in 1859 from granite blocks, stands 33.25 metres (109.1 ft) high and is a circular tower with straight sides. It replaced an earlier light tower on top of a cliff overhanging Scratchell's Bay, which was first lit on 29 September 1786.A helipad was built on top of the lighthouse in 1987. The Needles Lighthouse was automated in 1994 and the keepers left the lighthouse for the last time on 8 December. 

He created a model of Needles , for the theme ' Landmark or any attractions that caught your eyes during a beach trip' using Kitchen tissue roll, colours, Red and Green LED lights and few shells.

Family trips or any educational trips has to be planned for children to help them learn more about it. Every trip marks a memorable moment for them. They try to recreate the memories or mark their trip through drawings or journals.

As parents, we need to encourage them for writing journals. Practising journals will improve their memory.

Happy Parenting !!

DIY- LIGHTHOUSE

THINGS REQUIRED :

Waste paper

Glue

Shells

Cardboard

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1. Cut the waste papers and roll them as shown.

2) Colour half of the rolls in Red .

3)  Glue the rolls in square shape as shown and complete the light house.

4) Glue the block to a cardboard base and decorate it with Shells. Lighthouse model is ready.

 

DIY - MODEL OF MY SCHOOL

'How about creating a model of your school?' I asked my son. 

'Oh yes ! It's easy, I can create it, Amma ' replied my son. 

School was locked down for 5 months. Lets see, how he created the model. 

THINGS REQUIRED :

Empty cereal or any boxes

Plain Cardboard

Trees or plant cutting from the magazines

Few net packs.

STEPS HE FOLLOWED :

1) Remember his school, took a paper and drew a rough draft re-collecting the building structure.

2) Assembled the empty boxes in the same structure, glued them thick and allowed it to try for a day.

3) Painted the building in Red, the colour of his school building. Fences in brown.

4) Glued Trees and Plants cutting to the fences.

5) Fixed the basket ball pole using paper straw and basket using net pack.

6) Fixed the food ball goal pole using net packs.

7) See-saw with children paper cutting and Pizza hold as Chair.

Model of the school is ready for display.

 

I observed various developments in him, 

• Drew the rough draft of the model.
• Chose the box sizes to suite his structure.
• He created the model with his own perceptions.
• Stayed calm and focused on perfections.
• Took two days completely to re-create it.

Great Appreciation for his creation and patience.

BLOOMS OF SUMMER

Rose - a symbol of love, expresses heartfelt love, the ancient Greeks and Romans associated roses with Aphrodite and Venus, goddess of love. 

Blooms of Summer....flowers are adorable and admirable, mesmerising colours attracts us. Today, I am sharing few colourful admirable flowers each with unique colour and textures.

 

Sharing these blooms for Thursday Trees Love at Parul's Space and Wordless Wednesday at Natasha's Space.

DIY - CLAY GANESHA

Eco friendly Ganesha's are always welcomed. Ganesh Chathurthi is celebrated by children with full fervour. Lord Ganesha, the elephant god is strongly believed to bless children with knowledge.

Today, sharing our little Ganesha created by my 9 year old. Greatly appreciate his patience in creating his own idol and for understanding the importance of Eco-friendly idol.

Crafted by little hands, our little Ganesha looks magnificent. 

 

DIY - GANESHA

Ganesh Chathurthi is one of the festivals that brings happiness and joy for children. All the children loves Lord Ganesha. The festive mood starts with trying their hands on drawing, painting or crafting their own Ganesha. 

Today, we are sharing one of the children hand crafted home made Ganesha.

Things Required: 

Turmeric powder - 3 tsps

Maida - 1 cup

Sugar - 1 tsp

Rose water - as required

Decorative items.

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED:

1) Knead maida with Turmeric powder, Sugar, Rose water in to a soft dough.

2) Roll out small balls of th dough and start shaping the friendly Ganesha.

3) Fix the body parts, by brushing water or by toothpicks. Ganesha is ready for prayers.

 

CONIFEROUS FLOWERING PLANT

Nature will be always amazing and give us many surprising facts, after moved away by a weeping willow tree, this coniferous flowering plant with cute little purple flowers grabbed my attention. 

So many surprising things....the purple flowers will be grown as single bud/flower only, not in bunches, covering the whole plant. From a distance, it appears as decorating purple stars in a Christmas Tree.

 

Sharing this for Wordless Wednesday, a blog hop by Sandee, Natasha & Esha, Betty. and Thursday Tree love 93 at Parul's space.