When I was young, I learnt a very simple procedure to make this paper purse from my grandmother. I used to make for my younger cousins and they all loved carrying their purses. I taught my daughter how to make this purse. Materials needed: 1. Construction paper 2. Scissors 3. Glue 4. Yarn or ribbon …
My 2 year old counts everything whenever she sees more than one of the same object. So I thought she might enjoy this simple fun game. I was right! Materials needed: 1. Dice 2. Masking tape 3. Beans 4. Vegetable steamer 5. Sharpie Preparation: 1. Counting up to six is way behind my daughter’s current …
Watching beautiful fireworks is a fascinating thing. We tried doing/creating one at home. Materials needed : 1. Cardstock or any thick paper 2. Crayons 3. Black tempera paint 4. Pushpin or toothpick Method: 1. Color the entire cardstock with different colors of crayons. My toddler wanted to join the fun too! She did markings with …
As I have mentioned in my printed ladybugs post, we love printing. When my elder daughter saw my toddler’s ladybugs, she wanted to do a printing project. Using the same technique, we made watermelon this time. Materials needed : 1. Potato 2. Tempera paint 3. Sharpie permanent marker Method : 1. Cut the potato into …
Crepe paper flowers are beautiful. We tried a very simple method to make them. After we used the store brought artificial flowers for our flower hair clips, the stems and leaves were waiting for us to make them some flowers. We used those for attaching our crepe paper flowers. If they were not available, I would …
As I have mentioned in my previous posts, printing is something we love the most. Rolled paper printed flowers, Toilet roll printed flowers, Poppy flowers, Vegetable bag painting are few of our projects to prove our interest. Materials needed: 1. Potato 2. Tempera or acrylic paint 3. Black sharpie marker 4. Copier paper Method : 1. …
My elder daughter wanted to do flower printing, when she saw my toddler’s toilet roll flower printing. Considering her age, we did rolled paper flower printing. Materials needed: 1. Construction papers 2. Scissors 3. Tempera paint Method: 1.Cut the construction paper lengthwise to 3 to 4 pieces. The width of the paper does not matter. …
Whenever my toddler wants to paint, my first choice is dot to dot markers. We had done bleaching effect in watercolor with lemon juice and vinegar in the past. Why not, combine both? Tried the bleaching effect in our favorite dot to dot markers. It got bleached away with ordinary water. So cool. We tried …
My toddler loves printing. I got the inspiration of this project from Pop out flowers from No time for flashcards. They had colored the flowers but we used for printing. Materials needed: 1. Toilet paper roll 2. Washable tempera paint 3. White paper 4. Bottle cap Cut the paper roll into pieces. Make vertical …
In my last post, I wrote about how we used rubber band loom to create yarn flower. Those flowers were small. We wanted to create a bigger flower and could not use rubber band loom for that. I was searching for something which has four pegs. When I got the idea of my toddler’s mega …