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.

CHRISTMAS TREE PAPER ORNAMENTS / BOOKMARKS / GIFT TAGS

Today , we are here to post a Easy , Quick and fun tree ornaments for kids .

THINGS REQUIRED :

Colour papers
Glue
Buttons
Cotton threads/Woollen threads
Thick carbboards
Strings

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

FOR SANTA :

Glue red coloured rectanglular paper to a carboard sheet.
Glur cotton stings for moustache , eyebrows and cap.
Stick bindhi's for eyes.
Buttons to decorate dress.

For Tree , Socks bags , Gingerbread man and Snowman :

Draw and cut out their shapes out of craft papers and decorate them.




Linking it with Shruti Artsy Craftsy Challenge .

CHRSTMAS TREE

THINGS REQUIRED :

Green chart 
Star stickers
Stapler
Popsicle

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Cut a small rectangle of the chart paper . Fold it inwards to form a cone shape . Staple its edge .
2) Cut strips in its circumference and fold it up and down.
3) Stick stickers to each cone.
4) Arrange one cone over the other and glue popsicle to the bottom cone.
5) Christmas tree is ready .

CHRISTMAS CARD

This is a super easy christmas craft for kids . I and my daughter crafted this card for christmas celebration in her class room.....classroom decor for christmas.

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Colour papers
Glue
Cotton

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1 . Cut triangles out of green paper and fold it like a fan and then glue them to make a christmas tree.
2. Draw santa in a red paper and glue them as shown.Santa's eyebrows and moustache are made of cotton.

DIY - Snowman is ready .Linking it with Shruti Artsy Craftsy Challenge .

DIY - CHRISTMAS TREE FOR KIDS

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Green coloured paper
Thin Cardboard
Glue
Green shredded wool
Star stickers
Colured thermocol balls

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1. Glue green paper to the caardboard.
2. Cut the board into 3 rectangles. 
3. Make cones out of them.Glue the edges/sides.
4. Glue star stickers to the first cone, shredded wool to second and thermocol balls to the third .

Cute Christmas Tree ornaments are ready .

DIY - Snowman is ready .Linking it with Shruti Artsy Craftsy Challenge .

DIY SNOWMAN

THINGS REQUIRED :

Used feeding bottle cap
Satin ribbon
Red handmade paper
Bindhi's / Stickers
Buttons
Cotton
Glue
Beads
string

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1 ) Glue the rolled cotton ball to the head of the cap.
2) Stick bindhi for eyes.
3) A triangle cut coloured paper nose and cap for the snowman.
4) Glue buttons to the cap and satin ribbon for the scarf .
5) Tie beads with string and glue it to the hat .

DIY - Snowman is ready .Linking it with Shruti Artsy Craftsy Challenge .

DIY PHOTO FRAME

I made this DIY Photo frame along with my daughter for  Photo Framing Competition in her school.

THINGS REQUIRED :

Colourful straws
Cartoon stickers
A Thick cardboard/handmade paper 
Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1. Glue the photo to be framed in the centre of the cardboard / paper.
2. Assemble and glue the straws to its sides.
3. Stick kids favorite cartoon stickers.
4. Roll and glue a satin ribbon for hanging it on the wall.

A DAY OUT IN THE PARK - DRAWING BY MY DAUGHTER

DIY DIWALI CARD --COFFEE / TURMERIC PAINTING

A simple DIY Diwali card with old invitation cards and painted these diya's with Coffee and Turmeric powder.

DIY GIFT TAGS / BOOKMARKS

Diwali is round the corner , busy packing gifts for your loved ones .Here are few of simple DIY Gift tags / Bookmarks made from old invitation cards / kids toy / crayon wrappers we can make it from home.You can pattern your card as you wish it to be .

DIY - GANESHA BOOKMARK

Ganesha collage using stickers .Linking it with shurti's ACT -Sep Challenge.