Colouring POP...Samarth fun continues.

Hello friends writing blog after long time ,all these months was busy with my little one in exploring the process of growth in special association with nature ,watching flying pigeons,hiding sunlight from bright sunlight or falling rain drops n touching same with tiny little fingers.Meanwhile,.my daughter Khwaish is now very much busy in her own explorations which is mainly experimenting with colour in her own style with her whole gang of friends or trying different sports or childrens group play. With now arrival of summer vacations and availability of ample amount of time in hand,these young explorer are all set to their enjoyable journey to satisfy their creative souls.It all started one sunny afternoon but planning for same started early in the morning
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KHWAISH made some plaster of  Paris creations in the morning ,Of course with little guidance i offered.She carefully put wet POP in all mould and within couple hour taken some out….n believe me that were really Soft in touch.Now they got good project to keep themselves busy in the afternoon…
Threesome started there fun filled project…Khwaish,Samarth and Sai(k’s frinds)…surrounded with paint,brushes,water in POP white creations..in between they had good conversation session to choose red,blue ,yellow or to go multicolour for their respective creations.

For Sammy boy this is all together new experience n joy to play with colour …he is developing sensory skills and motoring skills through all fun n explore technique…
We as a team had great fun learning through exploring….looking forward to continue our journey.

 

 

 

 

 

First Streak of colour by Samarth.

 

After long time coming with blog which have joy of color element in it.Well my better half is away on some professional trip,i am also fully engage with my little ducklings, my kids.With Eid holiday in middle of week Khwaish wanted to utilize it to maximum with fun activity.

 

So here we all started the day with little extra sleep  followed by some exercise session and some playing session in my apartment plus enjoyed the nature at its best(will post click around the apartment ).Well after outdoor enjoyment ,gang enjoyed so called pool session of tub for more than half hour,by the way would like to mention my 14 month little son is very particular about his red Tub.I guess enough of bathing session….but at my place ‘’Yeh Dil Maange More” was motto for the day.

 

Now Special part of this blog and Surprise also…..i mentioned you will see colour element in this blog,so here it goes.Today Khwaish had wonderful afternoon  session of finger painting and exploring different colour.Actually it all started as trying one book which is related to finger printing ,but when we started book was kept aside and my little ducking enjoyed splash of colours.My son’s got more interested in colour bottles ,draining his hands in colour pool and his first Streak of colour with brush will be special one.He enjoyed to the maximum with a company of Khwaish and tried almost everything finger printing to taking colours out of bottles.

 

So it was funfilled day….I can say enjoying the day target was accomplished!!!Keep tuned for more fun on greencrafting kid.

 

Ashu

Reviving the Blogging Journey-Surprises & Solar System.

 

A Big Hello to my friends,family and readers.It feels really wonderful to come back and revive my passion ,my blogging after long time,after a gap of almost more than a year.I have come up with wonderful updates too…..

First please welcome one more company on the board for greencraftingkid team my ten months old Son Samrath  foremost reason I took blogging break(nine months in womb and ten months now), Khwaish my first partner in crafting fun is doing lots of craft work on her own and exploring things through reading(will surely let her write independent post) ,enjoying and last but not the least I have shifted to place which itself is blessing for nature lover like me(will post some picks very soon) .All this months been really engaging and blissful in terms family life and Simultaneously explored some other art like baking .

Now about my little son ,he is  enjoying and amazed with Nature wonders in the form of flying pigeons calling them with babbling sound ,colorful flowers,falling water and exploring through Nature walk.

Now I feel taken long required and much needed break,very soon will back to ‘Breathe the Nature’ expeditions,not missing but thirst for it is alive and give pump to my life.

 

Enough of my the leave details,I would like to share a craft work with you all ,done couple of months back ,Project Solar System made for K for her school,she is in love with topic of solar system very much and made her best efforts to explore the topic and made quiz to test my knowledge about the topic.Khwaish my first partner in crafting fun is doing lots of craft work on herself and exploring things through reading(will surely let her own post).

I would like to mention that project is done using recycled materials.So Go green!!

 

        Quiz Time for all Little ones..

1. Which is nearest planet to Sun?
2. Which is Red planet?
3. Which is blue planet?
4. Which planet has rings around it?
5. Which is biggest planet of Solar system?
6. Who was first man to reach the Moon?
7. Who was the  first Indian to go into Space?
8. Name an Indian women astronaut?
9. Different phases of Moon?

I am  sure you also enjoy exploring different topic with your kids in a fun way,so please share it.

I will try keep my blogging on, as and when time permits.Till then signing off and looking forward to hear from you all.

 

Ashu

Afternoon of Experimenting Minds.

 

I have been absent from my blog for long time,reason being little more occupied with home front and some health issue.And very frankly K did not want to do colouring related and craft related stuff,so it is perfectly fine at my place and decide & do what u enjoy as individual.For past one year blogging I did, activity with K because she enjoyed,creatively engaged.On that note first of special thanks to friends,family and readers who enjoyed my blog and encourage me during the journey.

Now back to our creative corner,today after long time K wanted to do something after coming back from school,came to me told “Mamma I want do something “.I was really happy to hear her words and thought what can we do,so thought something which she can relate going at school too.

K school got theme plans for kids every month like for current month Our Senses & body Organs and for young explorer they have experiment session with theme ’Sink and float’.I decided to dedicate this afternoon to satisfy curious mind,and do first time experiment session.

I was making lunch and told her that she can collect some of things meanwhile.She collected lots of material which include her box,stick,ice-cream stick,coins,nuts,stone.So I made list of things in order for her in sequential order and ready for experiment once I was done with lunch preparation.

 

I told her drop things one by one and observe whether particular object floats or sink to the bottom accordingly,she can write F(float) or S(Sink) in front of different objects.One by one with lot of excitement she enjoyed her experiment ,mentioned her observation as S and F….even she explained me if things are light it will float and if heavy it will sink which she learnt at school.

She had wonderful time experimenting and dropping different things in water,even got all drench in the water,changed her clothes after finishing the session.

I guess this little playful idea satisfy curiosity of little minds,so worth it!!

(Posting blog without picture fun,since hubby is out of town and Camera is not available to me)

Ashu

5+ ideas to have fun with Match sticks.

 

It just started as thing to kill the time one evening which was Sunday and my husband is working.So duo of MOM and daughter too got something occupying.

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t started as thought of childhood days,when sometime we used experiment with match stick to create different shapes.I just made simple house with these short sticks,watching this K got interested and wanted to try her hands.

Activity was quite captivating,so we moved to next level to try our 5+ ideas-

Idea No 1 -Started counting with the sticks 1…2…3..4…5…K having lots of fun same time.

 

Idea 2-Next was writing our name s with sticks….

Idea 3-followed by making some shapes…

Idea 4-We were enjoying together so much,even k did not want me to answer phone…I agreed.

Every evening we are going out to have playtime where we playing football,throwing the ball,we have connected above creation with our evening playtime.Oh K introduced that rackets on the bottom of page,one of her favorite one.

 

Idea 5-To bring the session to closure K has made abstract using Match stick and some chana dal.

 

 

SO what are you making today with Match sticks?

Ashu

Travel Game for small kids-Mix geography with travel.

 

During the holidays Me and my little one was in search for some or other innovative ideas to keep our wandering souls busy.So during the one of lazy afternoon,K pulled me to play ‘TRAIN TRAIN’ game.She wanted me to be a passenger and her pretending to be Travel planner,Ticket checker,Engine driver and last guide.I enjoyed her version of train train very much.

We started our tour with making train with dinning chairs in a line.Then we made K little tour office,where I gave different colourful postcard which we been collecting through post crossing ,added attraction to travel in India book (A lonely planet travel survival kit,it’s a old edition).So Travel Office is all set ,train is also ready.We are leaving,Bye bye!!

I entered K’s travel office,and I was offered lot of travel opportunity from India to different countries in the world.So once I lock my travel destination,my little one takes me to touring,pretending to having international cuisine,enjoying sanctuary,waterfall or snow filled area according the place of choice.While doing same we enjoyed clicking different animals in the sanctuary,playing with the snow balls(we did same during Manali trip),Making snowman,enjoying under the waterfall.Oh my pretending and enjoying so much !!

We enjoyed playing same for  more than one hours,then we shifted our focus to make our own travelogue.Yes!!! when K heard the idea got excited to try the same.So our first hunt was to get some pictures which we extracted from the newspaper(otherwise taking printout from google search is also good option).

So next we made some travelogue categorized same as  green travel,food options,one into sanctuary plus oil refineries.Friends it was really fun for kids to know different places through playful method .

I have already thought to take this journey forward with some more planned tours.I would love to have your views for the same.

 

Ashu

Gardening fun–Planting fun for Khwaish.

 

I wanted to this activity with Khwaish last month itself but busy schedule kept us waiting to start our planting activity little late.Yes friends today we had fun of gardening.Some days back I showed Khwaish plantation of an Aloe-Vera sapling in spare flower pot which she enjoyed very much and described it as really great.

 

It was in my mind to do at least one more gardening fun with her(we had one long back with her grandfather),so I thought let’s go for it.After having our lunch,Khwaish showed no sign of sleeping,so we went to little passage near our entrance door where I had couple of spare flower pots and plants.

 

Khwaish is enjoying her friend’s company in the morning which is in my apartment.While coming back from friend’s place ,we plucked some Basil seeds from plant today.

Now we are ready with some spare pots,seeds and Khurpi(hand hoe) for digging mud from flower pot.So first I started the job of digging mud,then after digging half the pot ,dropped the seed inside pot and later covered it with mud.Finally gave little water to the plant.I told Khwaish the basic idea,how that seed will turn into plant after few days and we need to water the plant everyday.Quite a interactive session with kid.

Now Khwaish was very excited to try her hands on planting the seeds.So here she goes……from digging the mud,dropping seeds and later watering the same.

She feel the sense of joy and proud after planting the seeds,and wanted to do some more.I want to  plant different variety of herb,so will bring some more from nursery to expand my garden with Khwaish.

 

Ashu

Solar System-Mixing balls with clay play.

 

Khwaish is enjoying her summer holiday to the best,In fact peak summer restricting our moment to home.We are exploring our own ways to do activities time at home.

 

Last month I bought this book ’The solar system '  by Harper Collins publisher from Sapana book house to start the little discussion on solar system,vacations giving us perfect time to explore the same.Although at the time of full lunar eclipse I wish to start this topic little earlier to enjoy the shadowing moon process better. Nevertheless,its never late.

We started the things with the first page watching colourful planets rotating in their orbits.

Now we took out different plastic and rubber balls collection from our toy cupboard and made them in line just like different planets,we were lucky to have some different  colour and sizes balls plus we have one perfect Earth.

 

Started placing the things with big yellow coloured ball as Sun followed by our Mercury,Venus,Earth,Mars,Jupiter,Saturn(rings were made using cooker gasket),Uranus,Neptune and Pluto(not mentioned in the book).

To take the and enjoy topic little more,we change our inputs,took out our clay box.Now time to make our different planets using different colour clay,enjoying rolling process made different planets.

Placed all the planets in the line.

Different versions of Saturn…

 

Planning to have some more sessions on the same topic,please pour your ideas to explore the topic in interesting way.

Meantime you can enjoy theme party inspired of the same topic by Mommy Lab,have fun!!

 

Ashu

Done with one of exploration-Dino’s Park

I was planning to build a Dinosaur Park with Khwaish from long time back.Some of winter celebrations kept us engage plus some great snowy vacations.After getting time off from the above activity,back to the wish of making Dino Park.Initially I tried some of stationary shops in the hunt of small Dino model,to my disappointment they are actually EXTINCT creature,even little model too.



So I decided  to use my chocolate mold of Dinosaurs to build our own models.At the same time read book DINOSAURS with khwaish to have little brush of knowledge plus adding fun element of watching ICE AGE Movie.



With the help of mold, using POP(plaster of Paris) as base material one day was dedicated for making of Dinosaur with interaction session on,could not click at the same time due to messy session.I managed to click Khwaish while taking out Dino from the mold.




Next session was dedicated towards colouring the Dinos.And you guessed it right ,first colour used by  Khwaish  was PINK(her favourite).We used some of mixed colour too ,mixing the colours was great fun altogether for Khwaish plus added experiments.



Our Dinosaur after colouring session…


Khwaish all set for giving little detail to Dino’s….eyes,nose,spikes.

Once we were ready with Dinosaur,we both set to create our park theme.To start our work used white chart paper and made lot of brush prints representing Dino’s Footmark.

little patches of blue,water bodies around…

Then some green patches…and black on some edges as lava flow,plus pink and red patches representing hot surface which is reason why Dino got extinct.


Usually we go for evening walk ,we got some stone in all sizes to create rocky mountains during one of the walk session.


Now time to put everything on board,we started with pasting some spare sticker of Dino from our book.I gave option to Khwaish to paint those rocky mountains in different colours,but she wanted to keep it natural and simple.So here we go ,placing mountains on our plain surface complimented by some green tree which I got when I was searching for Dino’s model.Added one little volcano on the corner…


Time to put main element in the park….. Dino’s .




Tadaaaa….here is our Dino Park.

We had great time in  making Dino park,plus a good learning experience for me and Khwaish with lot of exploration .Please share your views and idea for Dino exploration process.
Ashu