Nadia wanted to do painting today and she specifically wanted to paint a star-fish. So we made this coral reef diorama. Nadia painted the inside of an old shoe-box blue while I drew some fishes, an octopus, a jelly-fish and some coral reefs out. She then helped cut them out.

Then she painted each one of them. I absolutely love her concentration here.

She then stuck them onto the box with glue.

She used a few rocks from her dinosaur box to make a seat for the octopus and also added them to the floor of the ocean. I took this opportunity to explain what invertebrates are (like star-fishes). So now, if you ask her for an example of an invertebrate she can show you one.

Have a great week.

Cheers,

Aruna

Green is the color for today. We decided to make a tiny forest for Nadia’s dinosaurs to explore. We drew some tree shapes on index papers and Nadia painted them.

For the tree trunks, we used a paper tower roll. Nadia painted it part brown and part green. Then, we cut it into pieces.

Once the trees dried, Nadia added some apples onto the trees.

 

Then Nadia cut all the shapes out.

I just love the concentration on her face here.

 

Finally, here are all our pieces. Next step, lets put them together.

 

Here Nadia is fitting the trees into the trunks.

 

Here’s the final version of the forest (it turned out to be more of an apple grove 🙂

 

Nadia had a great time playing all morning.

 

Have a great weekend.

Cheers,

Aruna