Rhymes and More...

This is again something we did quite sometime back, but never got to the blog. Lazy mom!


1. You will need a construction paper, some q-tips, color paint (multiple colors)
2. Use one q-tip for each color, dip and paint.
Note: this concept of one q-tip for each color did not work out for a long time. May be with older kids but not with my little one.

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This was not something I had planned. I did this with my son, just to keep him occupied. Well it worked:)

This was a craft I did more than a month back. I have not been posting regularly, but we did continue to do our little crafts.

1. You will need construction paper(multiple colors), glue, pen.

2. Draw a circle on to a construction paper. Of course, you could draw any shape or object. But this time, we just used a circle.

3. Spread out the glue. This is something I helped my son with. He was still not able to press the glue out.

4. Cut out small bits from the other papers you got.

5. Spread it out on the circle. Initially we did one by one, but once my son started getting restless, I just asked him to pour all the bits on to the glue and turn the paper upside down so that the outside the circle just falls out. He enjoyed that one better:)

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D is for dolphin

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Thelemon prints we did the other day were a hit. So I decided to do the same with okra. I have tried this before with him, probably when he was 18 months or so. He found it difficult to hold and press then. But this time, he could do it with very little help.

I dont remember much of my preschool days. But some images stay very clearly in my mind and one of them is me doing these okra prints. And today, I am glad that I did the same with my son:)

1. You will need: fresh okra, paint, construction paper

2. Cut the okra and take the portion with the stem on. This is required to hold and dip.If there are some seeds, take them out.

3. Pour some paint on to a pallette or paper plate.

4. Now, let them dip and press.

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Right in time for valentines, hearty butterfly to spread love everywhere.

 

You will need: paper roll tubes, pipe cleaners, construction paper (we used red and pink), googly eyes, paint, glue.

1. Paint the tube red. I tried taking a picture, but everytime I took the camera, my son got so distracted and wanted to grab the camera. I thought I was better off with no picture than having to clean the paint from my camera. I wonder how other moms capture their lil ones at work. Painting the tube was in itself a task. We had to take a break. We continued the rest of the activity the next day.

2. Draw 2 hearts on the construction paper. (One on red and one on pink). I wish I had taken a smaller tube and limited our craft to just two wings instead of four. 

This craft was bit too long for my son and we had do it in parts.

3. Cut out four hearts. (use two pink and two red construction papers)

4. Cut small square bits from the remaining construction paper. Keep it aside.

5. Put some glue on to the hearts.

6. If you wanted to make this messay like what my son thought, spread the glue with your hands:)

7.Pour the square bits on to the hearts. 

8. Spread it out.

9. Keep working until you have covered the hearts completly. Add more if required.

10. Now, repeat the same with the other two wings. Now, this is when my son went to wash the glue off this hands, fell down and we had to take a break.

11. Let the wings dry. Paste them on to the tube.

12. Stick on the googly eyes

12. Add the pipe cleaners. I had to use tape to do this. Glue was not enough to hold it on.

13. The butterfly is all yours. Now play.

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Baby danced the polka

Oh..my son loves the book. The book is about how a mom and dad try to put their baby to sleep, but the baby just refuses. In the end, they give up and start dancing along with the baby. The book reminded me of numerous days when kaju would not sleep and I have ended up doing what he wants to (and this includes playing bits of paper way past midnight)

Piglet and Papa - Margaret Wild

A very very cute book, perfect for a dad to read to the child. A little piglet is playing with its papa, and he bites papa's tail hard. Papa gets angry and the piglet is not sure if papa still loves the piglet. The piglet meets other farm animals who reassure that piglet's papa does still love him very much. In the end, piglet goes back to papa and realises that papa loves the piglet more than anything else.Such a cute story:)

Giraffe's cant dance - Giles Andreae

A lovely book with a great message. You have to read the book to appreciate it. The book is about a giraffe who wants to dance but cannot. All the other animals make fun of the giraffe. The giraffe is sad and heads back home. A little cricket helps giraffe find his own rhythm. In the end giraffe dances so well that all the other animals are stunned. Oh, and there is a little cricket in every page which my son loves to find out, just like he loves to find the little mouse in good night moon book

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