Green Creatures

 

Idle weekends are always time to explore books or nature,this time we did both.Long time back Khwaish’s Grandfather who is book lover got a book for her ‘Patoon ka Chidyaghar’(Leaves Zoo) which is written  by Arvind Gupta.

 

 

For the craft material of the activity,we went for Nature ride with hubby.We got leaves of different shapes,which is always fun to see the same(Exploring the leaves).Don’t have pictures details since Camera battery was low.

In search of the leaves,went to farm where farmer interacting in local language,I must say more of sign language.In the same farm got different leaves and got to see different plants Egg-plant,papaya,different flower,and of course  Khwaish favorite little pussy kitten.During the nature walk saw two lovely birds sitting on this huge big tree,O god I was missing my Camera at that time.

 

Ok back home with different size and shapes of leaves.We started with making tortoise dedication to our Pyaru (Farewell to Pyarelal.)with the leaves,which turned out to be pretty good.

 

Then next we made butterfly which probably looks like grasshopper due to small leaves…..

 

 

 

 

I want you to do guess work,what is this?

 

 

Khwaish wanted to use petals too for making eyes of Crab….

First creation in this blog is self explored idea which is Lord Ganesha.

Learning and making different creatures using this unique idea was great experience.I m planning to continue same activity for one more week after fetching appropriate leaves ,so ready for some for animals and birds in our  blog.

By the way fourth creature is owl sitting on tree…I hope you got it right!!:))))

 

Ashu

Farewell to Pyarelal.

Friends wanted to share very sadly that my pet Pyarelal is not with us now.We have sent dear Pyaru to its natural habitat ,a lake near to my place.

 

 

It was really hard decision for me and my Hubby Nitin to decide leaving pyarelal to new place.We kept the pet for Khwaish on seeing her love and affection for animal.

With no doubts attachment is just like a family member,celebrated his birthday (Happy B'day Pyarelal)being memorable experience .Thinking about initial activity of pyaru from bathing,giving food and strolling in the home makes me feel the absence of Pyarelal more.

From last one and month half month had seen uneasy and discomfort in the activity and behave of Pyaru inside the Aquarium which was disturbing to witness.Initially we thought may be due to growth in the size is giving trouble to enjoy the aquarium,so shifted him to big tub,but not much of the improvement.

At the same time when taking him out of water to stroll,things been better.Still bad thoughts coming in mind.In fact just three days before Diwali,he was lying upside down in the aquarium which was blow of the day,I was shocked called my Nitin from room,even he was clueless on same because never seen Pyaru in that state .Khwaish dropped some food in aquarium and still he was no moving .I came back to other room with shock on face’’O my God’’ and almost tears in my eyes….Khwaish asking me ‘’Mamma’’ what happen to  Pyaru , not having food,I was like he not hungry ‘beta’.But inside me its only me know what a bad thoughts roaming…..

But within 15 seconds hubby voice came’ ’He is moving….just Natak’’.

On that day itself ,I made up mind he wants freedom to be in his natural environment,so for our own happiness cannot trouble innocent tortoise and last Friday only dropped him to that lake.

 

https://picasaweb.google.com/115349452294463196023/Tortoise?authkey=Gv1sRgCIi15-7GoZHj5gE#5670048099991043410

He is gone,Happy Soul for his continuing journey.May God bless him.We will miss him.

Ashu.

Green Visit-Lotus Special .

With festive season of Diwali coming to end,our energy and enthusiasm dipping.But thanks to sporting and lively spirit of my hubby Nitin, we are ready with our latest green exploration.

 

 

In spite of being working day for Nitin,he made sure to fully utilize the morning of Sunday to the fullest. Since Saturday had been quite hectic day ,we were not expecting much of action on Sunday,but no I was wrong!!

 

 

With cloudy weather in Bangalore nowadays,Yes rains at this time of year!!Thank god could at least enjoy bursting cracker being damp weather,Ok leave that part,another big story.

 

 

We were ready with our Sunday green visit.Sometime back in August at the time of independence day wanted to show Khwaish Lotus flowers.But at that time not a single one I saw,and nowadays its like ponds full of that.Our main pick for visit was Lotus view.

 

 

 

First  was big pond which we decided to catch while return drive due to parking issue.So I had beautiful flower clicking session initially,then we went to farm land where artificial pond with good number of Lotus in it.My hubby is very impressed to see that circle shape of Lotus leaves,also reminds me of pics in kids story books frog hopping over the same.Luckily,farmer of that land gave us some lotus and leaves to Khwaish which made her very happy.

 

Then while coming we stopped near that pond full of Lotus flowers where village boys were catching fish with Sari.What a great experience!!These guys were taking fish of tadpole’s size into water bottle,got some fish from them.

 

 

Lovely visit with view of lots of lotus and real fishing experience.

Album of complete visit-Lotus Visit.

Recycle session-Circle Prints.

 

The month of October been hectic one ,reason being lots of festivals,shopping,home decoration and festive activity kept pace of blogging activity little slow.

With some time stolen from festive activity,one day we dedicate to recycling session which is always extra special time for us.

 

 

 

I had a my discarded sketch pen collection,wanted to extract maximum out of the same.We tried making some scribble out of the same,but I guess refill inside was all dry so sketch pen hardly pouring any colour out.

So we open the sketch pen from back lock,took out refill and time to play with colours.WOW!!! What a lovely colour mending machine we got.

 

 

One special observation from the session,when dropping  the colour drops on wet surface of chart paper,colour doing magical affect while spreading,Khwaish enjoyed the same and she was like’ ’Mamma Mera Dekho(Mamma See mine )!!

 

 

Once we were done with magical colour session,spread the same with painting brush.Now we want more,so we thought of using old sketch pen caps too.

 

Next was printing session,outcome was lovely….Khwaish made prints with almost all colour resulting in such a lovely printing material.I ‘m planning to make small notepad with same printed sheet.

 

That is why I say recycling session is always fun and creative too because not only used waste material but also session of observation,experimentation and blend of creativity.

How do find our recycling art session?Share your views.

P:S-Be ready for lot of mess in the same session.

 

Ashu

My Band first Music Jamming Session.

My home is full of art and music loving people.I myself found great love for art and craft related activity in past two years,my hubby Nitin found of music .The passion for music make him explore his love through singing karaoke of different singers.And the budding talent at my home Khwaish enjoys her each new activity with great enthusiasm and energy.
Recently went for weekend drive to a place called Chanapatna famous for wooden toy.We got wooden xylophone for Khwaish which looks like a bright rainbow,no doubts very eye-catching for kids.




And I have some other music roller coaster at home like drums,clarinet …Khwaish 's earlier music toys.So with hold of one instrument each , family ready for the jamming session.

 

Meet my band….

Presenting Khwaish on clarinet …..


And drums is taken care solely by my hubby Nitin….


Xylophone player kept  on changing….


Our motto to have the session was to just enjoy and have fun…No art lesson ,no basics,no making tunes,no notes to follow.Its just sheer enjoyment by our teamwork.
My band first jamming session videos….

Music Jamming of Khwaish-1

Music Jamming of Khwaish-2

So which instrument you are using to have jamming fun and who all are there in your band?

Ashu

Dancing Letters.

 

When you have artistic child at home,anything can be given creative touch to the same.Nowadays  khwaish has developed her interest to write Capital letters in the notebooks and drawing sheets.

During her vacations one day during such letter writing I just wrote Big A on drawing sheet and gave eyes ,mouth ,nose,leg and hands to the letter,which is so sweet.So what are we waiting,our rest of letters waiting to get shape and different feature.

 

 

One by one Khwaish gave eyes,nose,mouth and even hair to all the  letters.No doubts making dancing alphabets is interesting activity.

 

 

I think doing this kind of activity is quite fun and learning for kinder garden kids-

• Fun learning letters .
• Giving imagination wings to artistic kids.
• Creating interest for writing.
• Learning body parts in living thing drawing.

 

I think learn to write for kids can be made more fun through different ways.Please share your ideas for the same.

 

Ashu

Creating garden from PATCH WORK.

Khwaish  vacations were quite engaging time for both of us ,and good time to explore and make discovery in our craft work.I would like to share one of those session.
Khwaish is all loving cutting papers with help of scissor and pasting same on a notebooks,so I thought let’s explore more  out of it.I gave her different colour paper sheets to enjoy cutting, in fact she wanted me to try hand…so we both had nice paper cutting time with the help of zig-zag scissor.



Since enough paper in different colour cut into small pieces ,she wanted to use it somewhere.Then the pasting session for same started and she pasted different colour cuttings without any order or sequence and felt like created her garden with different shades of colour according to her own words-Great observation from flower visit .




Now flowery garden needs to be decorated little more,so put glitter glue on each flower…oh I mean on each patch.Then she closed the book and reopened again , found lovely glow on the garden.



We named our new discovery “Patch work”.Khwaish feeling really happy of her new discovery.

Planning to make some greeting using same technique called –Patch work.

Ashu