Eco-Friendly Ganesh - Clay Pillaiyar

Hello friends,

On my blog today I am sharing a cute Ganesh! This Pillaiyar (Ganeshji) was designed especially for kids, so that they can make their own homemade Ganesh for Ganesh Chathurthy. This can be made both with clay or flour dough or with a mix of turmeric and flour, all this made at home.

This method requires very less experience with clay and it starts by making balls from clay for each of the body parts of Ganesh, (3 big balls - head, body & trunk, 6 small balls - 2 ears, 2 hands, 2 legs) and finally 1 different colour ball for the crown. 

 

You can also decorate the crown with stones or button. Further the extra things needed are white clay for laddoo, a white thread, and tooth picks for tusk.

We did for our little ones during our zoom session and they loved it to bits. 

Here is a pic of my Pillaiyar made with turmeric and flour. The eyes are made with pepper. Nothing here is harmful or non-recyclable. Makes me very happy. :)

An eco-friendly Pillaiyar. 

Lets be more responsible and Lets make the world green!!

Love,

Sujana

 

Interactive Clock Craft Activity - Telling Time for Kids

 Hi there everyone,

Today I have an interesting activity to share with you. It's an interactive clock which means kids can move the hands of the clock and show the right time. I did this model for my son for his Maths exhibition at school. 

Here like you can see, there is a pouch at the bottom of this model. It contains simple questions for kids, they have to solve it and find the right time and set the time in the Clock. It was interesting activity and kids loved it a lot. They kept coming back to our stall.

The model is made up of a card board base (carton box) and easily available materials. I am listing it down for your reference.

1. Carton box

2. pattern paper

3. Foam sheets (corrugated)

4. Foam numbers from Itsy Bitsy

5. Card board hands

6. Stickers, etc

I also added a stand for the model, so that it can be displayed on the counter. Hope you were able to draw some inspiration from this, and hope it was useful. Thank you and see you soon again.

Love,

Sujana

Easy Handmade Rakhi for Kids

Hello everyone,

 Happy Diwali to all!

I am here again after a long time, and trying to keep this blog alive. Actually I do have a lot to post, but facebook and instagram seems to be an easier way to share things. So I keecep missing to post it here.

And here are some awesome handmade Rakhis for kids to make at home with minimal materials. I will list out the things used here to make these cute Rakhis.

Things used

1. Satin Ribbon or Lace

2. Foam sheets

3. Cute buttons

4. Ric Rac lace

5. Velcro

6. Yarn to make handmade pom moms

7. Colour sheets

8. Pearls

9. Googly eyes

10. Fevicol

OK hope you liked it. Share it with kids and give them a sense of joy in making handmade things.

Thank you!

Love 

Sujana

Vegetable Clay Modelling

Hello there...

Yesterday i was going through my blog history and i found that the posts which got maximum views/visits are those related to kids' project. And i thought why not post more relating to that, and i got many of those.

So today i have a post on Clay modelling. The theme is Vegetables. This project was done for my son's school competition. He did a pretty good work and we chose a whole lot of different vegetables for it. Here are the pics..

Clay modelling for kids

As you can see, apart from just making the clay models, we made elaborate arrangements for displaying it. The base is an old recycled tea box. I have divided it with foam board and layered it with corrugated sheet and net.

Clay modelling - Peas, Corn, Chillies

We made 9 different veggies and they are Peas, Raddish, Carrot, Corn, Chillies (green & red), Brinjal, Pumpkin, Cabbage & Tomatoes. 

The last three vegetbles mentioned are placed in the stand. I found a candle holder ceramic doll to act as the Vegetable vendor.

All vegetables are pretty easy to make. You can zoom in for more details. With more pratice, kids will be able to mould it in the proper shape.

Of all these vegetables, cabbage & corn might be a little tricky for little hands to mould since it needs the leaves to surround the veggie.

Clay modelling - Brinjal, Raddish, Carrot

Anybody loves it when the final piece looks soo good. And i was completely satisfied with this. And the candle holder added such beauty.

Clay modelling - Cabbage, Tomatoes & Pumpkin

Hope this gives an idea for kids and parents alike who are searching around for ideas for competition. Do comment your views and if you have tried any other vegetable, do mention it.

Thanks for dropping by and showing some love,

Sujana

Vegetable Printing for Kids

Hello again...

This post is about a vegetable printing project that we, (me & my daughter) practiced for a competition.

She was pretty good with it and i went on adding more vegetables as she mastered the work. And this was the final look just before the competition. She won the 2nd prize for this.

Vegetable Printing for Kids

This is just one of the practices she had a few days before the D day. Here she has used 9 diff veggies. Here is the list

Tree - Drumstick

Tree trunk - Vertically cut ladies finger

Grass - Broccoli

Lady bud - Small Potato & carrot tip for the dots

Butterfly - Single heart carved into a Potato. 

Flowers - Horizontally cut ladies finger

Sun - Big Bitter gourd

Rainbow - 5 pieces of watermelon (one for each colour)

She is just 3.5 and i was really proud that she cud do dis relatively complicated piece of veg printing for her age. Thanks for hopping by here and showing some love

Sujana