"MANSI" - Handmade Birthday Card
This Personalized Name Card was designed for my friend’s birthday.
Materials required:
Instructions:
Personalized Name card is easy to make and could be used for any occasion . Will definitely put a smile on receiving a handmade card .
Color Sorting
Color Sorting Activity:
This activity is great for toddlers learning color recognition
Materials Required:
Caution Note : The package states that these cubes are meant for 3yrs old and above.Foam cubes could be a choking hazard for toddlers who mouth things . So, I always watched my son Ashrith closely when using them .
Video of Hurricane Irene’s impact in Cockeysville , Maryland
This is my first experience with a hurricane. Something new .
Captured heavy gusty winds early this morning @ 6.07 am
Watch the video & you can feel the winds blowing at 60-80 mph
I hope hurricane did not cause too much of loss and damage .
Prayers going out to all affected by hurricane Irene .
For years my mom had struggled cleaning silver items , finally we got our solution while shopping in a silver store .The storekeeper recommended us to use Colgate Toothpowder . We tried it and since then cleaning silver items has been so easy .
Friends always ask me if my puja diyas are new ,
Absolutely ….No …No ,
I clean them regularly with toothpowder .
For Cleaning silver puja items we need
#Colgate Tooth powder
#New clean toothbrush
INSTRUCTIONS
Colgate Tooth Powder is available in Indian Grocery stores .
How do you clean your silverware ? Do try this method of cleaning and leave your comment
Foam stickers are easy to peel and stick for toddlers. My son’s interest for peeling stickers made me start a journal for him and slowly I could see his improved motor skills . Then , we went ahead and encouraged him to stick according to color ,shapes or type. Then came this brilliant idea to fill the heart with foam stickers of different shapes and colors .
Materials required :
Foam stickers ( Used CREATOLOGY shapes stickers from MICHAELS store )
White paper / Construction paper
Marker
Step 1 : Draw a simple heart or any other shape
Step 2: Ask kids to fill it with foam stickers
Lessons Learnt : This craft activity is great for learning shapes and colors while practicing fine motor skills .
Valentines Mosaic Heart cards : Foam Mosaic hearts can be excellent Valentine cards and kids will love to make it for their friends.
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Saakshi looking cute & enjoying being a starSwapna : “ Hi Aparna , my daughter saakshi needs to dress up like a Nursery Rhyme character for School
Any ideas ??? “
Aparna: “Spontaneously I said TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR would be perfect as its quick and easy to dress up .you can even do Mary had a little lamb or Little Bo peep but need to work a lot on the costumes .”
Swapna: “- With two kids around & errands to run ,I would prefer TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR “
We both discussed on how to dress her like a star .Firstly to make a star out of cardboard box and wrap with silver paper and then star accessories .
Materials needed ( cardboard box missing in pic)
Thank you Swapna for sending me the pics , I must say you did a fabulous job
We are celebrating 64th indian independence day today .
Since we dont live in India , I had to introduce my son Ashrith about Indian flag and its colours. He is just 3, so best way to teach was through Art & Craft.
Indian flag coloring page was taken from here
Happy Independence Day to our Motherland ! Jai-Hind !!!
Mod Monkey Theme Birthday Party
My son’s 2nd birthday was celebrated last may 2010 , trying to recollect everything I planned for his birthday party .
First looking out for themes , I liked the MOD MONKEY THEME at birthdayexpress.com
Three reasons I loved this theme
So this theme was perfect
DECORATIONS
The Background was made out of a full size White Bed sheet , I painted polka dots in yellow and blue theme colors , the birthday banner was ordered online and all the guest tables had blue table covers with centre pieces .Inflatable monkeys were hanging on either side of the banner .We pasted some of Ashrith’s best pics on yellow color snack plates and tied blue ribbons on top .Using push pins we pinned them on wall .
CENTRE PIECES
These centre pieces were made out of cardboard tomato boxes which were covered with blue wrapping paper and theme tissue paper
Inside these boxes we had plastic green grass and few bananas to which we tied the balloons
To see RECYCLE CENTER PIECES instructions with pics click here
CAKE TABLE
The cake table was covered with blue table cover and on either side of the table was a fish bowl filled with green plastic grass ,two bananas and holding these fish bowls were plush monkeys
Between the two fish bowls i.e the center of the table was my son’s name ASHRITH in wooden alphabet letters