Few months back, my daughter was always be seen busy working with her rubber bands and loom. Now the interest level is dropped to zero. The loom and rubber bands are lying around without any usage. We tried to make yarn flower using the loom. I was surprised how simple it was to make one. …
My grandma is very crafty and she was the one who introduced me to paper crafts, crochet, origami etc during my summer vacations. I forgot almost all of them :-(. I remember this simple flower procedure as I have used them for many decorations. Materials needed : 1. Construction paper – White would have been …
May 6th (Tuesday) is the teacher appreciation day. My second grader is on vacation the entire week. So she wanted to give a card to her teacher earlier. She made this card with yarn made flowers bouquet. Materials needed : 1. Yarn 2. Tempera paint 3. Card stock 4. Construction paper 5. White copier paper …
We tried painting with the vegetable mesh bag. It was a fun project. Even my toddler joined the fun. Materials needed : 1. Vegetable mesh bag 2. Tempera paint 3. Tape 4. Copier paper I taped the mesh bag on a piece of paper at all the four corners. Gave the brush and paint to …
I have consolidated ten easy crafts & art ideas to give as gifts for Mother’s day. All these projects use easily available materials. 1. DIY Flower Hair clips – Hair clips from artificial flowers 2. Jewelry from Paper and Aluminium foil – Necklace from paper and aluminium foil beads 3. Watercolor flowers – Watercolor flower art for brightening …
Do you remember the avocado pits we carved sometime back? We used push pins to carve avocado pits. The details are here. Carved pits which we had kept for observation We had kept the pits for observation. They were turning color and were reducing in size. Eventually each pit broke into two halves by themselves. …
One of the major threats to mother Earth is the plastic pollution. We did this simple experiment to see how the plastic bags affect the growth of the plants. Materials needed: 1. Fenugreek seeds ( We used fenugreek seeds as they grow fast. Any other seeds can also be used) 2. Two container to grow …
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We used Montessori at home with my seven year old till she was around five, when she was going to Montessori school. After she moved to traditional school for kindergarten, we moved to traditional method. We love Montessori and she still learns fast with materials rather than with concepts alone. We do not have any …
What could be a perfect project rather than a recycled one to create a wreath for Earth day? My daughter thoroughly enjoyed creating the milk jug flower wreath. This time when I was thinking to create a wreath for Earth day, she wanted one from milk jug. It is very simple to do and fun for …
I was thinking that my toddler might not enjoy watercolor like tempera paint. We needed blue and green color paint for this project (Obviously). We did not have liquid watercolor or food coloring in blue. I had to give her crayola watercolor which needs to mixed with water. But, to my surprise, she enjoyed the …