Hobbies & Musings

Aditya at Month 6 after we pierced his ears

2010-09-22T02:23:00.000-07:00

Time flies..Aditya is 6 months now. We have started him on solid food along with his milk. He loves to be carried, recognises faces and feels happy when he has his brother around. Big bro is very happy.

Aditya Rolls Over

2010-08-09T20:26:00.000-07:00

We had a new addition to our family in April. Aditya is now 4 months old and he rolled over on saturday at 2.54PM. It was a delightful experiance for us :) He is practising his newly learned activity everyday.

CNY Baskets

2009-02-09T21:12:00.000-08:00

I truly appreciate Akash's teachers enthusiasm..Every festival has a new craft item ready which can be taken home..children enjoy making it and teachers enjoy working with them. Here comes two varieties of Chinese New Year (CNY) baskets in which they gave orange and few other goodies for children to take away. They are very easy to make take a look..

1.From Tissue Paper Box :
They have cut the Tissue paper box into two. The front side has the colored picture (colored by children) of OX which is the animal of the year. The other sides of the box is decorated with colored paper and glitter!

The next type of baskets are from used up pepsi/coke/ 1.5 litre bottles. Just stare at it to know the piece of art created by children!

They have cut of upper 1/4 th portion f the bottle. The bottom 3/4 th part is again well used to create a design..like they have cut them into strips (half of 3/4th part) and folded them on their back to give that exterior design. One of the strip is folded in such a way that it became a handle to hold the basket. voila! the basket to hold orange and goodies is ready...

They all go to Shama's Kid's Freindly Art event. Happy hosting Shama..

Charm

2009-01-24T09:39:00.000-08:00

This is Akash's contribution to Shama's Kid's Friendly Craft Event. Shama is trying to keep her 2yr occupied. I am sure it is challenge to all mom's to keep their younger ones occupied. Akash merrily brought back this paper charm from his craft class for this event.

The picture explains itself so I am not writing down the procedure to make this simple charm.

Ideas from Akash :
Instead of bugs you can hang up photos of yourself
Hang up some flowers

Tee Shirt painting

2008-11-16T23:49:00.000-08:00

Learning to Paint on Tee.......

Trying to master (?)......

On a purse

Teaching Painting.....

2008-10-19T22:59:00.000-07:00

I was teaching painting to Akash..one of his finished work where he took 75% help from me in terms of choice of color, strokes, etc.,

Use Old Newspaper .....

2008-09-19T23:10:00.000-07:00

We were trying to use old news paper and here is what we came up with............

Take a 2"wide and 10cm long paper strip.

Start from one of the edge and roll it like a cigar. Roll about 2cm paper this way.

You have cigar and a tail end of the paper. press the upper end of the paper from where paper tail starts. You have lower end free to hold in your hands.

start folding the paper backwards and at the same time circumambulating the cigar strip till you finish using 95% of the paper strip. The tail end is just wound around the bottom part of the cigar where you are holding and firmly secured with a tape.

Rose is ready. You can see the Rose stuck to the multipurpose holder in the below picture which gives you a better look from side.

Akash has just stuck news paper around a used up biscuit box. He enjoyed making it and sticking a rose to it :)

The doll above is made of news paper yarn. You can see the method of making newspaper yarn/thread here
The yarn is glued in a circular form on a thick cardborad discs. The thick card board was from cornflakes box. Akash has cut them into circles. I glued the paper thread on the discs. We finished it by decorating with wool which I already had at home.

Lantern and Lantern Festival

2008-09-14T00:01:00.000-07:00

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, is a popular East Asian tradition of Chinese origin, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty that spread to neighbouring cultures like Japan. It was first called Mid-Autumn festival in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia and Singapore, it is also referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Chinese Lantern Festival is held on the 15 day of the first lunar month.

China Town is decked up with beautiful lanterns and lamps. Moon Cakes are sold everywhere. Today is lantern festival too along with Ananthapadmanabha swamy vrata :D so posting both together. Lantern was made of used bisleri bottle. Akash's childcare teachers are very creative. They helped each child of the center to make one lantern each. It was a DIY project. Take a close look and you can create one at home yourself.

This lantern goes to Vani's CAN ART EVENT

Few Creative gifts from a dear friend........

2008-08-12T20:02:00.000-07:00

A very creative friend of mine gifted these handmade gifts. Thanks dear for such lovely gifts.

Hand painted photoframe :

hand painted box

hand made mobile charms..

All of them together :

Few more creations of Akash

2008-08-11T23:19:00.000-07:00

He got to know it is 'national friendship week' from school! for any occasion there has to be a gift and that is all he knows :) ! so he went upon making a flower for his friend (which is me :D) and a purse and a tag ..so take a look at them yourself!

we wanted to send Tulip for Vani's flower event but we missed the date line by 2-3 weeks ;) not bad at all right! :))

Here is where I learned Tulip :

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/492666/origami_tulip/

a beautiful tulip in 2 mins! ........

Flowers..........

2008-08-11T03:28:00.000-07:00

Vani of My Creations taught us to make these lovely flowers..Thanks Vani aunty says Akash. He enjoyed making them. He made atleast 5 flowers with waste paper before he tried on color paper. We both made about 10 flowers..here is how it looked

two blue and one purple color flowers are made by Akash, rest of them are by me :) .

Baker Boy

2008-07-31T23:22:00.000-07:00

We all love to watch Khana Khazana cookery show by Sanjeev Kapoor! So he thinks only Men can be Chef and cooking is done by them ( obv... my hubs is not happy with his thought!) ....so he thinks himself as 'Khana Khazana' and helps(?) me out ..so he went upon being a baker !

Photo deleted...will be back soon...

See..what he baked! his own set of cookies ....one animal/per day he took them for his snack box and proudly announced to his teacher that he baked them :0

Akash - Our focus in life

2008-07-31T22:50:00.000-07:00

he will be 6yrs in October....time flies people say and I believe in it.. 6yrs! We cannot imagine a world without him. He is our focus. Everything we do, from shopping to life's most important decisions he is there .....We go to buy vegetables..R says don't buy too many chillies and make the dish 'hot' Akash may not eat it..or shall we go to XYZ place for holidays? Does this place have enough attractions to keep Akash busy? Should we move back to India? Will Akash be able to cope with the competitive environment in schools..?so he is there everywhere..he does not know it.
half the time when I am at home I am either with him or in kitchen and when I wish to sit down with my hubby to talk Akash will sure say"why you always want to talk to daddy?" ufff...see dad's face for the reaction! Poor 'R' he has to wait for his turn to come again or else we date during lunch time....

Akash is our cloud, a cloud which brought us shower of love with him. He is our focus!