An empty cereal box turned inside out…cut out a house and color it black
An excellent story telling prop…
It made it to our Halloween 🎃 display table for this year
We had a lovely evening listening to Nadia’s scary tales 😃🎃
Have a great week,
Cheers,
Aruna
It was too quiet so I walked by to see what Nadia was working on. A painting of Yosemite…
That’s half dome…
Wow…I am quite impressed! And Yosemite falls on the right, El Capitan to the left of the box.
And she drew a road with a car driving by…
Love it!
Cheers,
Aruna
I cut out the cardboard for Nadia and she painted the fortress.
She framed the window and the doors with brown.
Enjoying painting…
And some blues….
Here’s the finished colorful fortress…quite unlike the crystal one 🙂
Enjoying her new-found solitude!
🙂
Happy 1st October!
Cheers,
Aruna
A quick craft before swimming today….
Pegs and markers…
Making some butterflies and people…
How cool is that?
Totally love her mom and dad pegs here 🙂
Nadia used a bit of garlic peel for my hair here…love it!
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
Sunday well spent! Cutting out cardboard, gluing and painting…
Putting together this Knight’s accessories was a ton of fun!
Trying it on for size here…
Let’s get down to painting…
A happy customer…
Almost done…
Adding details to the sword…
Adding the signature of the Wolf Knight…
Here’s everything!
Omg doesn’t she look heroic?
Getting into the mood 🙂 
My life is good 🙂
Cheers,
Aruna
Nadia’s learning to play the violin, but she’s also fascinated by the guitar…as my sister put it “When you’re learning one instrument you want to play a different one”…she knows flitting between badminton and tennis 🙂
Anyways, so she went and made a cardboard one…the first box she used was a lightweight one which collapsed after playing a song…it now serves as a colorful crown 🙂
The second box seemed a better choice, lathered with paint and a lot of decorating it seems to hold up well.
I also helped her add a cardboard piece here so she could hold it. Looks pretty delightful!
Here she is, strumming away. Note the old box that serves as a crown now.
Two days later and it’s still hanging on…she carries it around everywhere and now plays it in the car on the way to school. We are getting subjected to a ton of great music on a daily basis…this is the life 🙂
Cheers,
Aruna
Medieval times…sword fighting…but we need shields Mama! Okay let’s make some.
Nadia chose a wolf and a lion. The lion is for her dad and she will use the wolf. 
Here, she is painting the wolf face…
Here’s the finished piece…
And here’s the lion…
And this one for dad…
Stand and duel…
Have a great long weekend.
Cheers,
Aruna
Summer movies…we watched all three “Toy Story” videos. What a great series of movies!! Nadia loved them all and got motivated to build a scene…
A jail fit for a sheriff…
A Wanted poster…
A jail and a saloon…
Looks like Darth Vader got captured 🙂
With a little help from Ironman? High five!
Happy happy…
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
Nadia has been asking to make a rocket for sometime now. Finally she gave up on me and made it herself! She glued some paper over our trusted cardboard rolls…
Red was her color of choice…
Added some designs…
I helped her tape 3 rolls together here and she cut a slit on the top one.
To infinity and beyond….
I love watching Nadia play…listening to her imaginary stories and her dialogues…Here, she has her star-wars characters setting sail on a new adventure. Of course Darth Vader is leading… This is the cardboard boat we made a while back…
Luke whispers to R2D2…that’s my dad at the helm…
Attach of the sea monster…it’s a body-less dinosaur 🙂
Oops Vader lost his head too…
We made this ship a while back…here is the post if you are interested.
Celebrate life with us 