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
Coloring, cutting, folding …that’s all it takes to keep Ms. Nadia busy 😃
Drawing umbrella patterns and cutting them out here…
Carefully folding on the lines here…
And voila there’s our pretty umbrella ☂
Nadia drew a little girl…it’s very handy for her walk today.
Cheers,
Aruna
Nadia has been having some fun with felt…here she is stitching together a bear puppet.
And a blue elephant…
Put your fingers through and that’s excellent toy!
Here is the pair…aren’t they just too cute!
Have a great week.
Cheers,
Aruna
Nadia is doing a Japan segment at school and learning a lot. Quite fascinated with Kimonos at the moment.
We made a few Japanese paper dolls…they can also be used as bookmarks.
I walked into her when she was already at making the head phase!
Adding on the sleeves now…
Isn’t she cute?
Love them!
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
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
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