Making a flower crown to celebrate Easter…
Cutting, folding and sticking…
Assembling the paper crown…
Isn’t it pretty?
Happy Easter!
Cheers,
Aruna
Month: March 2018
Flashing LEDs
Nadia learned soldering 101 here..Dad and daughter working on a simple flashing LED circuit. She loved it!
It’s just like a glue gun…
Here’s the final circuit all ready to be connected to a battery source.
And here Nadia is demonstrating how she can make the LEDs flash faster or slower. Cool stuff and a lot of fun!
Have a great day.
Cheers,
Aruna
Origami fun
We got some cool colorful origami paper…
Nadia picked a red, several folds later…
Two cute dogs…
Moving on to mice bookmarks…
Cutting out the ears…
Then on to some different dogs…
And then some swords for the knight…
Aren’t the mice cute?
Here is our basket of goodies 🙂
Have a creative week!
Cheers,
Aruna
Paper helicopter
We downloaded these cool templates from Made by Joel. Nadia cut, colored and folded them.
She then tried throwing them several times till she was able to get them spinning…howo cool. Here’s the video.
Paper toys…a ton of fun!
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
Monster hooks
Nadia can’t reach the closet hangers so she decided to make some coat hooks herself.
Introducing Monster hooks…
She drew some monsters…
Here are the sketches…
Now let’s paint…those are some crazy monsters 😃
Then add on some clothespins…
Here is how they came out…a job well done!
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
Learning to draw
Lately Nadia has been busy teaching herself to draw. It all started with her asking Nayeem to help with drawing a wolf. Nayeem went to youtube for help and the saga of “How to draw a …” was born.
So that’s what she does all week. How to draw a dog, tiger, wolf, horse etc. She picks videos which are a max of 8 minutes in length and then pauses and plays and follows through. I am simply amazed at the quality of her drawings and the plethora of tools available online.
We can no longer complain…we have access to a ton of resources!
I am also amazed at her patience…the 8 min videos really mean she takes about 25-30 mins to complete a drawing. This tiger for instance, took her around 45 mins.
Howling wolves are her favorite!
Also I am loving her growing independence but also missing our art/craft yesterdays 😦
Have a great week!
Cheers,
Aruna
Oscillating woodpecker
You all remember the woodpecker on the pole example from our childhood. We decided to try the same thing with paper and an elastic band. Nadia drew and colored the woodpecker.
Here it is all cut out and ready…
We then stuck a little bit of a plastic straw and put the elastic band through it.
How does this work? Our woodpecker gains potential gravitational energy as we lift it to the top of the rubber band. Once it starts going, the potential energy is converted to kinetic (moving) energy.
Pretty cool huh?
Have a great week.
Best regards,
Aruna
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