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.