Hand made toys are the best…here Nadia is working on a pirate and mermaid scene using felt.
Measuring, cutting, sticking…
Painting little peg dolls…
And then playing and seeing her stories take shape…
The dolls are so cute!
The story goes like this…a pirate sailing the high seas, meeting mermaids and finding a chest of treasure…sunsets and adventure 😃
Imagination and creativity come alive.
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
Making further additions to our Halloween display…inspired by Day of the dead we painted some peg dolls.
We painted a witch next and made a hat and cloak for her with felt.
Nadia made a little red riding hood peg doll…all ready here in her felt hood.
Looking very cool with the day of the dead masks we worked on a different day.
Here’s the final display. My camera battery was charging as we worked so I could not take any pictures while Nadia made these items.
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
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
Paper toys and more paper toys…thanks to Made by Joel I found this cool circus performer on a unicycle.
We used the template and Nadia cut out and colored the parts.
Using a paper clip to guide the unicycle…the performers performed merrily!
We did run into some technical difficulties getting the paper toy to function, but Nadia kind of figured this out on her own.
It was a fun pre-bedtime activity 😃
Happy Friday!
Cheers,
Aruna
Lately I have been focusing on providing Nadia with a lot of free time to play. Allowing time for unstructured play is very important in feeding the creative mind. This is where the creative ideas come flowing in…
Nadia is working on a little felt elf who has his own little sleeping bag and pillow…
She cut out the materials and sewed them herself…with some guidance from me when she asked for help.
We have agreed that unless she asks me for help I will not bring ideas of my own 😃
Once the elf and his sleeping bag was ready …she moved on to playtime. Most of these items below have been made by her. The lovely mushroom fairy house was made at summer school in Montessori. She shaped, baked and painted it all herself.
Isn’t the elf in his sleeping bag cute? He is camping out under the stars tonight.
Just love seeing the scene come alive…
Imagination…story building all coming together
Of course I joined in the fun too 🧚♀️
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
As fall approaches here…leaves falling we can imagine so many hiding places for little woodland sprites. Nadia has been picking acorns, pine ones and little sticks on our walks together. Today she decided to make a little fairy with them.
Some brown felt for the tresses…
And on goes the hat…
Fall color wings cut out of felt…
And then adding on some eyes and a pretty smile…
Here’s my woodland sprite with the one she just created ❤️
Have a great weekend.
Cheers,
Aruna
This is a real cool experiment to teach kids about clouds and rain. Some water in a jar with shaving cream on top of it, to simulate air and some clouds and then some colors…that’s all you need.
After using the dropper to drop about 30 drops, the red color finally made it through as rain from the clouds…
Some more red…
Quite fascinating to watch…
And pretty to photograph too…
Learning and having fun, the best combination…
Have a great week!
Cheers,
Aruna
Nadia put her fairy garden together this week…There’s the house with little stepping stones. A little chair made with wine cork. A wishing tree she made at school.
Little painted acorns adorn the pathway…
So much fun…
After the rains…two little fairies came out to play
Isn’t she cute?
Here’s a birdhouse for the garden put together with a wine cork, toothpicks and a stick 🙂
Just love it!
Watering the pine cones…
It’s friday and Halloween is upon us. Writing this from the airport while I wait to take my flight back to MKE.
Have a great halloween!
Cheers,
Aruna
Nadia is working on her Christmas gift list. She’s made a list of her beloved friends that she wants to make personal gifts for.
And Nayeem is getting involved too! Here he is drawing a butterfly that Nadia will be painting.
Wow that’s amazing Dad, said Nadia.
Let’s get to the painting…
Yellow, blue and pink…
Very happy!
That’s turning out lovely…
Adding finishing touches…
Really beautiful!
Cheers,
Have a great week.
Aruna
A quick activity on Sunday night…wine corks, elastic bands, a toothpick and some paper.
Cork floats on water, why, how….many questions answered 🙂
Nadia’s using a spoon here to move the raft around.
Quite cool!
Can it take the weight of a person? Took a few experiments to find the right lego figure!
Ahoy there…off on adventures!
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
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