Painting and dance…the two best forms of expression. Let’s paint a dancer! I drew a ballerina for Nadia and she decided to paint an energy filled background.
Orange, yellow hues…
And a blue frame…
Here’s the final version…
Have a great week!
Cheers,
Aruna
I want a batman bracelet…not sure where that came from. Anyways we made batman cuffs! Our of recycled cardboard tubes.
Downloaded a batman design from google and Nadia cut it out.
Covered the tube with black paper and then stuck on the batman design…voila!
Pretty satisfied customer 🙂
Have a great week!
Cheers,
Aruna
We are in Texas for the holidays. It’s been perfect around family for the holidays. This will be the first Christmas we have celebrated together since 1999. Nadia and I made this Christmas village last week.
Nadia painted a cardboard piece green for grass and a circular area brown.
We used milk cartons to make little houses. They are like ready made little cottages with a chimney 🙂
We used our little peg dolls here.
Added a few pine cones…
We added some lights in the blue sky.
Playtime just became magical…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
Nadia made Christmas for two of her teachers this Holiday season. I drew the snowmen but she did everything else…coloring, sticking, writing a message etc.
She was pretty excited with how this turned out.
Hope you are having fun making your Christmas cards too.
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
I have my station tuned to 95.7 Milwaukee’s Christmas station all day. Just listening to the carols gets me in a festive mood. So here we have our Christmas carolers.
Nadia painted their outfits 🙂
We added Nadia’s old socks and some hats…Here they are, singing away using their music books.
Totally immersed in the holidays! 
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
You’ve heard the song “We three kings of orient are”…That’s the motivation for this post. Nadia colored paper, cut them out and stuck them on cardboard tubes to make the three kings.
Nadia painted crowns, stuck on beards and stuck googly eyes on. Here are our three wise men.
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
10 days to Christmas so all our posts are going to be Christmas related till the 25th 🙂 This is my favorite holiday…attending mass at school, playing Joseph every year for our nativity play as I was tall for my age. Wrapping presents for our teachers, Christmas parties…so many memories! The tree is up and Nadia helped decorate.
We kicked off this holiday season by watching our favorite play “The Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. Twinkling lights, decorated trees, hot cocoa and cookies…yum
We made reindeer using cardboard tubes. Nadia cut the reindeer, drew their eyes and nose.
Nadia added red stickers for their noses. Aren’t they cute?
Hope you are having a great holiday season.
Cheers,
Aruna
Do you remember marbled paper from our childhood? Well we tried to make those here. Not very successful but it will do the job and was too much fun. First we borrowed Nayeem’s shaving cream and sprayed it on some foil.
Nadia then put drops of paint on the shaving cream.
It makes a pretty picture.
Then Nadia just smeared it around.
She then put a piece of paper on it and pressed hard.
Then she wiped the shaving cream off and the color stayed on the paper. We plan to use this paper for greeting cards.
Have a great weekend.
Cheers,
Aruna
We were at Yosemite during Thanksgiving and Nadia wanted to swim in the Merced river. However after walking down and seeing the frozen water she was amazed. The theme for today’s post is winter and frozen water. Nadia painted a white snowy ground.
She then cut out some foil and stuck that onto the ground to depict a frozen pond. We added our peg dolls, some cardboard trees and a pine cone. I also showed Nadia how to fold a paper boat and we added one to the edge of the pond.
The peg dolls are skating here…
To add some color to the scene, Nadia cut out paper flowers and stuck them to the edge of the pond.
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
The 2016 Dawn of Justic (Batman v Superman) movie inspired this post. We recycled cardboard tubes to make the two super heroes. Nadia painted white paper using blue, yellow, black and red colors.
She then stuck them to the tube using glue. We cut out the batman gear and eyes and glued those on.
Here’s a look at the batman!
She then created the pieces for Superman.
Here’s the super duo…
Ready for a day of adventure…
Have a great Monday.
Cheers,
Aruna
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