Aditi is very fond of ba (as she refers to balls). Scraps of paper and fabric get crushed and crumpled to become impromptu balls. In this pic a plastic bag t was thus honoured.I just teased her with a huge pumpkin/ squash my MIL gave us and it was so cute to see her have a go at pushing and lifting it!

Aditi enjoying a film glossy inside her palypen cot( hand me down from Anush)

Goosh’s love for aeroplanes continues. Here’s Goosh’s fleet of planes made from play-doh. Thanks Sands! Filed under: Mom Speak Tagged: crafts

Shruti, this one’s for you! Here’s what Goosh and I made for Shruti’s artsy-craftsy this month: some flowers and some sunshine. Goosh loved doing this. It’s simple aatta dough, left over from cooking. For the flowers, Goosh first help me break it up into small lil pieces. Then we rolled them into small balls and [...]

Creating something with your hand has its pleasures. I always wanted to share these creative spaces with my child. From August, we decided that once a week we will make or create some art of craft together. Inspiration struck from a very unusual object. My daughter had just finished a tin of Pediasure. As I was about to throw it away I saw some potential in that shape, it could be made into a nice pen/pencil holder. Pens and pencils have an uncanny ability to walk anywhere in our house and oft

The kids are to celebrate Grandparents' day in school. They have to prepare a sheet with pictures of their grandparents and take it to school. Here's what they are doing. The theme is the special moments of their life that they have celebrated with their grandparents. Which could be either a special occassion or celebration or just a normal slice of life moment!Take a look...

courtesy schooling !Beans cut into little piecesThe above is a result of Jillu's hard work while I was busy on the same job as well. She cut around 7-8 individual beans and that with a broken cake knife !

Last Saturday was Sports Day for kindergarteners at the kids' school.Mira won her first prize - a bronze - in the Snow white-dwarf runningrace. Here she is with her 'dwarf' and also with her present bestfriend Lia.

The society we live in had a programme to celebrate the ongoing Ganapati festival on Saturday. As far as programmes go this was very simple. A drawing competition for the kids, with the theme "Ganesha". A talent show, which had the children of the society performing to various songs, with the youngest performer a two year old with mike fright. And then there was a skit, in which the brat was to be Shiv. The father of Ganesh. The skit was pretty simple as far as skits go. The brat and a girl, pla

Betu had got this model making activity book (Navneet Publications) long ago. He was around 4 then so I had kept it away as I felt he needed to be little older to actually do it himself even with help. Recently I found it again and Betu was quite excited about making the fire truck. So today we both finally sat down and made it. Looks pretty neat to me. What I loved best was that the book had perforated parts just to be snapped out from the pages. We didn't need any glue or scissors as the