Making our own Nature’s Door-Independent Project of Khwaish.

 

One of the best thing which I have discovered in last few months is pleasure of the bond between nature and us.The whole process of ’Breathe the nature’.We been exploring greenery and farm near to my place in our vacant weekend though wanted to do it every weekend,and thoroughly enjoying the process as a FAMILY.During the process we been lucky to see different flowers and vegetable plantation ,whether it is walking on dry leaves,watching the green colour,butterflies fluttering over flower and list goes on and on ,gives so much positive energy to body and soul.

 

I think love for nature inside Khwaish nurturing,she’s discovering her own ways to get close to it.I remember during Khwaish’s  Dusshera holidays two years back ,we got some leaves and made some leaf prints card , coloured the feathers last year and lot many activity involving nature’s product in our sessions.

Now I worked on her ideas,bringing her imagination to reality.While going to school and coming back Khwaish picked some of the dry leaves in few days,I was wondering at that time what might be her purpose of doing that.But I kept quiet and kept patience.And finally she broke her silence about her collection.

One day after coming back from school,changed her school uniform and asked me for ‘Pair of scissor and transparent tape’.I gave her the required things,still I was thinking ….

There is one small door attached to my kitchen which I got purposefully when Khwaish reached one year to close her entry in the kitchen for safety reasons.I never thought khwaish will reuse same for nature bonding purpose now.

With scissor and tape next to her,she made this her working station….work started.One by one khwaish sticked all her brown colour dry leaves on board added by pigeons feather .She explored her own ways to put the whole  show into place…next day again she got some more.

Once she was done with her work,door looks something like this.

 

I offered her some of the sticker from the book ’Saving Our Planet’ ,she gave more meaning to our nature board.

 

 

So this is final look of nature door,an independent project by my Nature enthusiastic.I feel delighted to see my little one vision to create her own nature door using nature’s gift and creating bond more stronger.

 

Ashu

Grapes Farm visit.

 

After long vacations in snowy climate to resettling back in my own city kept us engage for long time.One thing I’m missing since the time came back to my own city  is the green colour in my life,colour which gives me lots of positive energy and there is whole process attached to same which I termed as ‘Breathe the Nature’.So back to my trips of extracting positive energy from the nature.

Well my tour started with witnessing little baby snake on my car,very beautiful but poor snake was dead.May god give peace to this little creature.

 

Now let’s go for tour.Yes this time I ‘m taking you to grapes farm near to my place.

 

It is time when farm people were plucking grapes,khwaish had fun of plucking one whole bunch.

 

It looks like dark colour marbles hanging from the tree…

Caught some of action of farm…

Cutting tool..

Lady while cutting one whole bunch,she was very generous and gave us lots of grapes.

Grapes in whole line…

On other side of farm,we got to see farm with unripen grapes too….I just loved that colour,it will take one more month for these grapes to get ripen.

 

There were some plants for sale too…I don’t have huge land otherwise great idea to go for this saplings.

Last attraction of the visit was some amla(Indian gooseberries) plus one of beautiful butterfly in the action.

I just hope to flutter like this butterfly in the search of new green visit.

 

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

Back to blogging…Republic Day Special.

 

Hello To Family and Friends .Back to to blogging after long time in fact first for year 2012,so first of all HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL and great year ahead.

The year end was really busy time for greencraftingkid team from enjoying the season of Christmas  with our creativity  followed by amazing time enjoying the weather in the northern part of INDIA in the first week of new year.It was freezing temperature ,we got to have perfect vacations,witnessed freezing climate to snowfalls to some of lovely memories of snowy trip.I kept up my promise I made to Khwaish  about showing her snow,even she had great time playing with snowballs,that was kind of Perfect happiness on my kid’s face….

Sharing you some of best clicks of the season,Enjoy the same.

All fresh and rejuvenated for the year now ..

Keeping my visit description little short….I will share first session for this year.

Initially I had in my mind to start my blogging from next month,but my inspirational friend Mommy labs blog made me woke up little early …Thanks Rashmie for the same.

This is unplanned activity,I told Khwaish that today is Republic Day of India…She replied back as’ Is it INDIA’s DAY Mamma?I was like ‘YES’ because I guess for kids understanding, seemed to be good idea to define the day as INDIA’s DAY…what say friends.

I asked her what she would like to do today ,she wanted to make INDIA….she meant to prepare FLAG which is good idea from her side according to me.So time to take out some dry colours(yes long vacations made my colours dry)  and untouched brushes after long time.

First of all took out white chart paper as a base.Khwaish had really good idea to prepare Indian Flag,So first we used water to extract colour from our dry orange colour.

 

She showed tremendous interest,infact she took green colour paint charge from me,completed the same.

 

We used little white in middle although white chart was used,but by mistake some green and orange drops fall in the middle.

 

 

In the last Khwaish made circle in the middle and made couple of lines inside the same, I told her about the fact its 24 lines inside the Ashoka Chakra.

 

Now time to decide perfect place,so we attached a long stick to it and made it flag,and hang same on our terrace.

 

HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY TO ALL…..JAI HIND.

This is our little effort to celebrate INDIA’s Spirit at home.

 

Ashu