Its all started when one of the avocado pits was exactly round. I just saved it without any further thoughts. After 3-4 days, the skin started peeling. I cut the pit into 2 pieces following the natural line. Peeled the skin completely with nails. Myself and my daughter shared a piece each. We thought of …
My seven years created alphabets cards by sticking felt alphabet sticker in the index cards 3-4 months back. She still believes that her sister learnt to identify uppercase by her cards. It was very difficult to store the cards as they were bulky because of felt letters. On a rainy day, when we were thinking …
When I saw the pattern in the bubble wrap, I thought we can do mandala with that. The bubble wrap we used had backing. Otherwise it could be used as a sun catcher too. Materials needed: 1. Bubble wrap 2. Sharpie permanent marker We started coloring the bubble at center of the bubble wrap …
We made this egg lantern from tissue paper scraps and balloons using paper mache technique. How beautiful was it when lit? We have done paper mache projects few times and paper mache bowl is one of them. So my daughter did the lantern completely by herself. Materials needed: 1. Balloon 2. Tissue paper 3. …
We did this beautiful poppy flowers painting with water balloons and acrylic paint. We had done painting with regular balloons earlier. That was the only reason we chose water balloon this time. Definitely water balloons gave us a different experience. Materials Needed : 1. Water balloons 2. Acrylic paint – red and orange 3. White …
I was planning for a long time to let my toddler create contact paper sun catcher. Since we are doing Easter activities as of now, I cut out an egg shape from the contact paper to decorate with tissue paper. It suddenly struck me to use the uncut portion of the contact paper as a …
Whenever possible, I want to involve both my toddler and my 2nd grader together in activities. It is usually very difficult because of their age difference. I thought egg decoration with tissue paper and stickers can be done by both. My first daughter was able to complete her activity but toddler needed her big sister’s …
Hi All, Today I am happy to share colorful free printables for Spring. It is suitable for preschoolers. It is packed with the following activities: 1. Matching or memory game cards 2. Which is different? 3. What comes next? (Patterning) 4. Coloring fun 5. Skip counting by 5s 6. Learning values from 1 to 8 …
Hi Everyone, Flashback Friday is a series of posts from my other blog https://dheekshu.blogspot.com. This post is a combination of two posts written on dates April 12, 2013 and September 24, 2013. I got the instructions for a basic star from a paper craft book. Sorry, I forgot the name of the book. We created …
Hi Everyone, Today I am happy to share this recycled project – Milk jug flower wreath. The basic idea is to make flowers from the milk jug and create a wreath in a paper plate. To make this project easy for my seven year old, we made flowers from jug which are so simple to …