Lately most of our posts are mostly on Painting…Nadia seems to enjoy these more than anything else. Every day she has a request for a new drawing, which seems to challenge me to improve my drawing abilities 🙂
Today’s is a lighthouse on an island…
Nadia painted water…and a sunset sky
She used a black marker for the lighthouse…
Here’s the final version!
Have a great week!
Cheers,
Aruna
The other week during the rains, I was showing Nadia how to fold paper boats…when she asked lets make something else. I looked up how to fold a fish and we got started.
Step 1…
Step 2…
Step 3…
And now draw on a mouth, eyes…
Nadia drew on some fins…
And scales…
She stuck them on some paper that she colored blue…for water
So much fun…
Have a great week!
Cheers,
Aruna
Talking to Nadia about Holi…colors, life and love. We decided to make a painting. I drew a scene of 2 women playing with colors.
Nadia painted…she chose bright colors. Blues, green, red…
Here’s my super-chef husband doling out rotis for our dinner while we paint!
She then colored the hair and highlighted the eyes.
Here’s the final version.
Happy Holi!
Have a great celebration.
Cheers,
Aruna
Back home after a week of traveling. What better way to celebrate than to paint the cometh of Spring! I drew some flowers for Nadia and let her have at them…
Nadia first painted the background green and then picked red for the flowers…
Red, maroon, blue, yellow…
Finally, green stems…
Here’s the final piece…
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
Happy St. Patrick’s day….Nadia made a cute rainbow and a pot of gold at the end of it!
She cut out strips of paper…
Stuck them together…and made a chain
Here’s my treasure…look at that smile 🙂
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
I am in Hong Kong for the week, traveling for work. Last weekend, while speaking to Nadia about my upcoming work travel we started chatting about Hong Kong. She wanted to know where it was on the map, how it looks etc.
After looking on the web for some pictures of Hong Kong we decided to make a painting of Victoria Harbor and a red-sail Chinese boat. I drew a scene and Nadia got started.
I talked Nadia through drawing the windows on the buildings…
We even titled it in Mandarin…
Here is her final version…
I hope I guess a chance to take some time and sail the Harbor on the “Aqua luna”…wouldn’t that be cool?
Have a great week!
Cheers,
Aruna
Lately, Nadia has been showing a lot of interest in drawing. She showed me this drawing last night of a her home. It shows a house, a tree, a pet dragon, Ozzie and her playing. How lovely!
It occurred to me that this may be a good time to start teaching her how to draw animals. I found this really cool blog online – http://artforkidshub.com/, definitely take a look if you are looking for creative things to do with your children.
We started by drawing a Monkey swinging from the vines. I walked Nadia through this step by step.
I asked her what next? And she said can we add a lion and an elephant.
So I walked her through those step by step…
She then used a black marker to darken the pencil drawing…
She then colored away…
I am really impressed at how this turned out. I learned to draw and helped Nadia learn too…how awesome 🙂
Have a great weekend!
Cheers,
Aruna
After savings up paper towel rolls we had enough to build this craft caddy finally…Nadia wrapped them all with colored construction paper.
She then painted the caddy with pretty flowers…
She then glued all the rolls to the base of the box.
It now carries some of her craft supplies…
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
Trying to teach Nadia to tell the time the old fashioned way…
Here she is writing the numbers and drawing the hands of the clock…
Then she sticks it on to a bit of cardboard tube that she can wear around her wrist.
She made quite a few of these…all telling different times. 
Hope you are having a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
A fresh coat of paint for the walls…
Add an outdoor scene…some clouds
Some indoor decor too…
We have four rooms in our home…
Add a floor and a few accessories and here we go…
Hope you are having a great weekend.
Cheers,
Aruna
Celebrate life with us 