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 !!!

ADJECTIVES PROJECT - ENGLISH PROJECT FOR PRIMARY YEARS

Art integrated Activities or Projects with children are always fun. Today, I am sharing an interesting activity for learning adjectives. This is an activity designed by me for my daughter in Class 2 for her English Project . Fixing the correct adjectives for the parts of an Elephant ....a really fun activity for kids as Long Trunk , Soft Eyes , Fat body , Small tail , Heavy legs , Sharp and big tusks , Big ears .

Materials Required: 

Thermocol board - 1
Tooth picks
A4 white sheet

Steps to be followed:

1) Draw an outline of an Elephant and mark their features.
2) Glue the adjectives to the tooth picks.
3) Paste the drawing to the thermocol board.
4) Start to play the activity, by asking the children to fix the correct adjective and fill the blanks in the drawing.

This is really a superb fun activity for the children. Feel free to share your comments.

Happy Parenting !

DIY - COW COSTUME FOR KIDS

A simple DIY - Cow costume which can designed in few minutes.

MATERIALS REQUIRED:

Cow face mask
Black coloured paper
White fleece jumper/sweat shirt and white track pant.

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Glue few round shaped pieces of the black coloured paper to the white jumper and the white track pant.

2)Make the kid wear the cow face mask.

A Simple 5 minute DIY Fancy dress costume is ready.

OZONE DEPLETION PROJECT FOR KIDS

Hi all ,

I am sharing an interesting and simple Science project for primary school Children, explaining Ozone depletion on the occasion of Earth day awareness week

As a part of parenting, scheduling our time with our children is the most important responsibility of us. Creating projects on their own will help children to gain knowledge about the theme taken, they would explore more and it's a practical way of learning. When children are involved in doing their school projects, they remember things in a better way or learn the concepts easily. Generally, projects are hands on experience activities for children.

Here, we designed a simple DIY model explaining the reasons or causes of Ozone depletion.

Learning process :

1) Explain the concept taken for the project. 

Our project is about Ozone depletion. Explain the children about it, by reading out the concept from textbooks or any articles. You can show them some videos as well. Make it like an interactive session.

2) Help them to write or make quick notes on what they have learnt.

3) Ask them, how they want to present their projects. Make their collective ideas.

4) Tell them that they should do on their own with the support from us.

5) Help them to get the required resources or materials for the project.

6) We ended up in doing a simple display self explanatory model. I involved children  to collect the pictures of various sources causing depletion like Refrigerator  (emitting Chlorofluro carbon), Factory(emission of CO2), Pesticides, Fire extinguishers, CO2 from vehicles, Forest fires and Deforestation.

7) We did a paper collage of earth surface. We used 4 kebab sticks, tooth picks and a thick base board.

8) We drew Sun and cut out the template.

9) Glue the pictures of Refrigerator, Aerosols, Air Conditioner, Deforestation to the tooth picks and pin it to the base board.

10) Design the model of the factory using play blocks, use a toy car, we used corn fibres for forest fire remains, small tins as Pesticides can. Glue it to the base board.

11) Glue 4 kebab sticks to the corners of Earth College with Sun paper cut in the centre piercing a ray of UV through Ozone layer because of depletion.



This model conveys and help the kids understands what are the toxic emissions that causes hole in ozone leading path for the direct UV rays from the sun.

3D PUZZLE ACTIVITY - 8 YEAR OLD'S CREATION

Puzzle activities is one of the fine choice of game for the children from 3+ years. Starting with jigsaw puzzle till 3D puzzles, many interesting themes are created for the children to learn about. If your children are having more screen time, get them more such activity to focus on. 

Puzzle solving focuses on child's shape/pattern recognition, hand & eye co-ordination, concentration, fine motor skill development, visual perceptual skill, memory, sense of judgement, creative and problem solving skills, reasoning and sense of pride, boast up the confidence and cognitive skills.

The End product of their creation will give them happiness, satisfaction and whole lot of achievement. 

Solving puzzles will always be an interesting learning programme for children. 

Recently, we got these 3D puzzles for my 8 year old to boast up his confidence level and to observe his problem solving and reasoning skills. 

We are happy to see the outcome of the puzzle activity by him solving it all alone without any support from us, following only the instructions booklet. 

Each creation has nearly 150-200 pieces. He completed all the three creations in a week's time. We truly adore his efforts, his timely act when something goes wrong or any mistakes done. He has proven his skills once again and makes us feel proud parents in teaching and giving them activities which focuses on his development.

Happy Parenting to all the lovely parents ! 

ORGAMI'S ROLE IN CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT

Hi ,

Today, I am sharing the role of Origami in child's development. Children would from the age of 5 years and above would love to tear paper mostly try to make boats,  aeroplane, four cups or paper popper. This is one stage of activity, children would do as a phase of their growth. At times, we get irritated on the seeing the crumbled crushed bits and bits of paper around. But, pushing the mess aside, look the other side of the activity done by children. 

Paper cutting or folding or Origami is a wonderful activity that develops the child's eye and hand coordination development. It's one of the best activity for fine motor skills development, Math Reasoning, arranging in sequence and the foremost is observation, concentration and focus on attention.  

These creations of Sword and Ninja blades as named are made by my 8 year old. I tried to re-collect the moments, how did he developed his interests in this activity. Then we gathered some insights from him to know better. Here it comes from the interest started.

We re-created our childhood play, when it rains heavily, we play with paper boats using newspapers. But, back now , when my children wish to play in rain, we allow them to wear their raincoats, make some paperboats and play in the puddle. 

We designed our own costume for their fancy dress competitions involving them too in cutting templates, design armour, cow, sword, plough etc. We never go for any readily available school projects for their exhibition either science or any subject activity. I have shared few projects in my page as well. ENGLISH ADJECTIVE PROJECT, SCIENCE OZONE PROJECT 

These interesting activities involving children will help them to gain interests to create their own. These Swords with their holder and Ninja blades are created by my younger one. As they are studying about ancient history of different rulers and their kingdom, iron age, created these on his own. 

How these activity comes with Parenting is a big question? . Definitely YES, parenting plays a major role. Kindly allow children to do their projects or activities on their own. As a parent, guide them and help them to get their required accessories or resources. Just allow them to do on their own, make them an independent learner. The Output of their own project or activity will be always special and a unique one gaining them more insights of the concept shared. 

Let them play with paper, don't stop them, just guide them to play safely. Happy Parenting !!!

MODEL OF A BULLET TRAIN FROM A 8 YEAR OLD'S PERCEPTION

Hi ,

Today I am sharing an interesting creation of our 8 year old son. This is his perception of his bullet train.  

Visual perceptual skill is one of the milestone in every child's growth. It is the ability to organize and interpret the information that is seen and give it meaning. Our eyes visualise the object and share the images with our brains to process helping us to have our own thoughts and creations. This skill development has to be encouraged by parents. It does wonders in child's cognitive development.

As child's first teacher, we should know or take time to observe child's skills or area of interest. We were really surprised and felt happy as parents to see a wonderful cute creation from our child. 

My 8 year old is very much fond of watching trains and would prefer to travel more by trains. Railway station was hardly a 5 minute walk from our community. Staying in 11th floor, we would be able to have a railway view from our balcony. I used to feed him in the balcony watching trains.

When he was a 2 year old toddler, I used to take him to a nearby railway station to watch trains in the evening hours. We will be there for at least half an hour, we will see minimum three crossings, a passenger express, MMTS and Freight trains. We had this schedule everyday till the age of 5. He would mostly prefer to get only train toys. Later, he was involved in Basket ball and Cricket coaching. But, still he loves watching trains and speak more about different trains and explains their speed too.

He started watching more train videos in Youtube and discuss about it with us. Recently, we re-located to a new place. Fortunately, my brother's house and our house are very near to the railway station. We have a railway view nearby. Everyday, we spend 10 minutes in the morning and evening to watch trains. He is fond of tube trains. His favourite passtime in my brother's house is sitting on the lounge window and watch all the trains crossings. His interests and passion on trains made him to design this model train.

He used a packing cardboard box. Cut out different shapes and glue all the shapes together. 

Hope to see you all again with another imagination. 

DIY - CHRISTMAS HAIRBAND

A Simple DIY Christmas hairband decoration for the kids party. 

Any Hairband
Glue
Red and Green pom poms.

Decorate your hair bands with pom poms. Kids would happily decorate their own bands. 

CHRISTMAS BOOKMARK

A Simple DIY fun filled kids activity for Christmas. Let's design our own gifts and share it with friends.

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Red Coloured thick paper
Tissues
Glue
Letter templates from Magazine
Thick card paper

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw Santa in the red paper and cut out the drawing.
2) Glue tissues and white paper cuts out to decorate Santa.
3) Glue Santa and the Merry Christmas letter print cuts to the thick card paper.

Christmas Bookmark is ready to be gifted .

DIY KIDS SEASONS CALENDAR

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Coloured A4 sheet and A4 white sheet

Colours (any medium)

Glue

Calendar printed sheets

HOW TO CRAFT :

1) Cut out A4 white sheet in quarters and make kids to draw or design seasons.

2) Glue them to the coloured sheet in 4 corners with the printed calendar sheets in the middle.

3) Seasons calendar is ready for New year 2020. This was done by my son for his class activity.

DIY - MAZE BOARD

It's been years, I logged on to my space here. Yes, a short break from a profile of a working mom to stay at home mom. The Transition was initially very peaceful, gave me more relaxation , more holidays, no more application for leave or permissions.

We have re-located to a new place, settling down with the changes. With the re-location, I got to spend a month time with the children, which I have missed for a very long period.

I cherish the moments with them, the most valuable moments which most of working parents yearn for, left me with some painful thoughts.

BACK AGAIN TO START WITH, here

A Simple DIY Maze game, designed for Best of Waste Competition. Yes, my daughter won a prize for this game.

MATERIALS REQUIRED: 

Slate board 
Straws
Glue
Decorating colours
Small beads/ Spherical metal balls
Glue

PROCEDURE :

1) Clean the board, if required paint it with your favourite colours. Dry them completely. 
2) Cut the straws of various shapes and glue them to design a maze. Let it dry for an hour.
3) Game board is ready to play with the balls.

DIY - KIDS WALL DECOR

A Simple wall decor with my kids craft works.

DIY - BUMBLEBEE COSTUME

Hi again , after a long time ,i am here with yet another simple DIY fancy dress costume.Kids fancy dress costumes designed in home will always be specially appreciated and loved by our kids.Anything crafted with love will always bring happiness for us.

Today, i would like to share a simple DIY - Bumblebee costume for kids .

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Plain yello T-shirt - 1
Black nylon ribbon - 2 metres
Full-hand black coloured shirt and black tights .
Chart paper crown and wings.

Linking with Colours Dekor .. Weekly Story Wk 7 

Crushed Paper DIY - Diwali card

Indian flag

THINGS REQUIRED :

Green, Orange,White,Blue coloured papers.
Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

Using punch machine , punch the coloured papers and glue it to make a flag.

DIY - INDIA FLAG - REPUBLIC DAY SPECIAL

A fun filled republic day craft of Indian flag with crayon shavings .

PONGAL / SANKRANTI COLLAGE

THINGS REQUIRED :

Magazines
Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1.Draw the pongal picture .
2.Glue coloured papers to it.

DIY - SANKRANTI KITE BOOKMARKS

THINGS NEEDED :

Colour papers
Thick chart papers
Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Make kite collage with colour papers.
2) Glue woollen strings to it.

A fun kid's craft is ready...

Simple Rangoli - for Kids

Pongal festival is around the corner....Today, we share a simple rangoli for kids aged 7 - 10 yrs.