MAGICAL HAND - BUTTERFLY

Wished to gift a special different gift for my husband on our 8 th wedding anniversary . Hence , I took hand printouts of my two kids and made this butterfly.

MATERIALS REQUIRED : 

Colour board sheets
Pipe cleaner
Google eyes
Glue
Decoration items/Confetti .

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Take prints of hand and cut it out .

2) Glue them .
3) Glue pipe cleaner with eyes .
4) Decorate it .

Linking it up with Made with Love - June in Colours Dekor .

PAPER FLOWER

Yet another simple flower craft for kids .

MATERIALS REQUIRED : 

Crafts paper 

Straw 

Tapes/Stapler

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Cut out circles of different sizes of craft paper.

2) Make a hole in the center of the circles .

3) Stack it to the straw , with bigger one first followed by smaller ones.

4) Crush all the circles with the straw and staple it firmly . Then tape it around . 
Flowers are ready .

AFRICAN DRUM

Explore Africa is the summer term concept for my daughter in her school . When we searched internet , we came to know of african crafts for kids . This is one of them ,  we tried it out . Super dooper drum !!! .  

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Paper cups - 2

Strings
Glue

Markers

Brown PaperTapes

Aluminium wrappers



  

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Glue two cups together .

2) Wrap it up with brown paper and tape it in the center.

3) Attach strings and decorate it.

4) Glue aluminiun foils to cover it up .
Drum is readey to play with .

OLYMPIC TORCH

This torch craft is designed by my daughter in her school .

REVIEW - FRESHWATER PEARLS

My Freshwater pearls is a wonderful online pearl jewellery shop .  They have very good collection of fresh water pearl jewels . It includes Ear rings , Necklaces , Bracelets , Anklets and Pendants . Here is a sample Ear-ring :

You can view their webpage here : 

MY FRESHWATER PEARLS - ONLINE PEARL JEWELLERY .

and their facebook page : 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Myfreshwaterpearlscom/182754771824086 . 

You will really love their products . Don't forget to visit their space . Have a good day ahead . 

Shama Nagarajan .

LEAFY VINAYAKAR

This was my long time wish .....to make a leafy vinayakar . I got these yellow mix green leaves and completed it .

THINGS NEEDED :

LeavesGlues

Confetti

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Glue the leaves to form Vinayakar .

2) Decorate it .

3) Laminate it or frame it off.

 
 Linking it up with Colour's Decor - Weekly Story - 78

VINAYAKAR - MY FAVOURITE

I love drawing Vinayakar ......this was done long back......

BALLOON EASTER EGG

Easter celebrations are of much fun to kids with lots of games and crafts . Wanted to craft a different easter egg and ended with this simple kids friendly craft . 


THINGS NEEDED :

White balloonGlitter colours

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Blow the balloon well and tie a string to it.

2) Decorate with glitter colours and write happy easter .

3) Hang it out .

linking it up with Shruthi's Artsy Craftsy Challenge - Glitter for September 2012.

Book review - The Weather vane

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend . This weekend , we read the book , The Weather Vane . My daughter enjoyed reading the book . She was happy to know about weather vane .

 

 My daughter wanted to draw , My family picture, to keep in her Special book and show her teacher . She was happy drawing My family and ended up in a pleasant surprise to us .....As per the story in the book , the weather vane will be fixed in a super market . She drew a mall with weather vane and explained that all four of us are visiting the mall , even she wrote the same name for the mall as in the book.

She is so lovely.....we are really flatterred ......getting no words to greet her . 

Linking it up with Shruthi's Artsy craftsy Challenge - May 2012 .

MY DAUGHTER'S SPACE SHIP DRAWING

This is the drawing of Space ship by my daugther . I love the alien in it .......

EARTH COLLAGE AND FEW EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS .

April 22 was celebrated as Earth day . This year we crafted a collage and a wall hanging . Kids must know about the values of our valuable earth . Here are few simple ways , i followed to teach my daughter about earth with fun and crafts .

THINGS REQUIRED :

Magazines

Cardboard 

Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw an earth outline.

2) Glue blue and leaf strips from magazines .Outline earth with colour pens .

3) My daughter enjoyed making it . She attached stick to it on her own with a tape . I am really flattered on her idea .

Earth is ready for display in her class 

You may also like Egg Shell Earth : 

Other Earth day activities : 

1) Teach about the importance of Earth day with pictures from Magazines .

2) Teach them about the goodness of growing trees .

3) Recycling Poster : Help them learn how to recycle .

4) Re-usuable Paper bags : 

5) Our Project display for Earth and Nature's Day .

Hope you enjoyed reading our crafts . See you again with an interesting craft .Linking it up with 

Made by little hands and Show and tell # 98 .

PAPER MASKS

My daughter enjoyed colouring easter colouring printables and made masks with it . It was a real fun for kids . Here are the lovely masks we made.

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MY NATIVE VILLAGE

Hai all ,

I am so impressed by the writings of the fellow bloggers travel experience . It's my long time wait to post about my our experience . I am so happy to start with my native village ,Thattankulam , a wonderful , peaceful place , 25 kms from Madurai , Tamilnadu . It is on the bank of river Vaigai . The journey will take nearly 40 minutes from Madurai . It will be really good to travel along the river , river on one side of the road , villages on the other side .We have our farms over there .  We will have our pongal celebrations everyyear in our grandparents place with whole lots of fun and happiness.
I would like to share few pictures of our village .

This is our lord ganesha temple , where we used to keep pongal .

The idol one on the right is Nandimuga vinayakar , placed by my great grandfather . The face resembles Nandi.

My aunty makes pongal with a pongalo pongal rhythm.......and a chorus humming from all of us.

Vaigai river which flows in our village .

The way to our paddy fields after crossing river Vaigai .

All are playing and enjoying their summer splash in motor pumps canal .

My hubby and uncle played a game to climb the haystack ......both made it very fast .

It is a real fun to have family get together with aunts,uncles,cousins and grandparents around . Will meet you again with yet another lovely place .

AWARD:

Vidhya Ganesan has given me this beautiful award . Thank you so much dear .I really happy and excited to have it dear.