Play around with Crayons!

LO often says, 'Crayons are not always meant for coloring!'😲.... I know very well that LO is finding an excuse to play around with them(crayons) and to get out from my rebuke for breaking them!.. 😐 LO loves to play with crayons, use it in all ways rather than coloring! This time got the camera handy and clicked the pictures as he was having fun with the crayons. I just want to share the pictures, and don't wanna list this as activity related post (!)

All you need is some crayons and a frisky mind!😉

Happy Parenting!😊

Create it with Play Dough and Googly eyes

Time for some creative play along with strengthening those fine motor skills. Pairing the Googly eyes 👀with the Play Dough ends up in amazingly imaginative characters. LO was very confident that those green, red and blue play dough characters what he made was the replica of PJ Masks, the Gekko, Owlette and the Catboy!!😁😁 Simple to setup and I'm sure this would be a fun boredom buster!

And about the 'Busy Hands', this might be the last post in this series, and hopefully I will keep posting more activities related to fine motor skills, then and there as we explore it! 

Play Dough is by far one of my favorite activities because, kids can use their hands in several ways to build their fine motor activity. A combination of grasping and squishing helps the muscle tone in their hands, and great way to train the brain and the body work together.

Bring out the Play Dough and Googly Eyes, sit back and watch the creative play of your little creators!😊 My LO did a finishing touch with the Alphabets and Googly eyes along with the color sorting.. a must watch!!😉

The Owlette..! 

The Catboy...!

The PJ masks in a row.. along with the Villains..😁

The grasping and squishing....

In between LO brought in Alphabets into the play...

He was trying to form some words, 'sun', 'hat'....

And ended up in alphabet color sorting!...

Finally, decorated the Alphabets with the Googly eyes....!👀

Happy Parenting!😊

Celebrate the fall with the Corn - DIY craft for Kids

Last week our Little hands were busy making this Corn Craft. So simple to make with the available materials at hand and sure this would be a super hit with your kids. A great activity to be a part of the 'Busy Hands Series'. I want to post this craft before the fall season comes to an end, as in our place already the duration of daylight is getting noticeably shorter. 

Materials used:

• Split Yellow Peas (for the kernels)
• Construction Paper - Preferably Green, Yellow and White
• White Glue and Glue stick
• Scissors, Pencil

First, roughly draw elongated shape on the yellow and white paper for the corn kernels and the husk. Now glue the yellow piece on the center of the green paper. Make a slit in the middle of white paper half way through and bend both the parts outwards as shown in the pic. 

Glue it over the yellow kernel part. You can also make this husk part with the green paper and use the white paper for Background. It might look more attractive.

And now all the paper work is over. Till this part I made and LO did rest of the work. Mean while LO was busy arranging the beans around the yellow corn. Truly this is a fine motor activity.

Apply the white glue and spread the yellow split peas over it. 

Allow it to dry for sometime.

Have a try and let me know how the kids enjoyed it. 

Add-on ideas:

• You can discuss about the fall season, the harvests and the Thanksgiving day. 
• Discuss parts of the corn like kernels and husk.

Happy Parenting😊

Form a Circle - Fine motor activity for Busy Hands

This basic shape activity will pave the way for kids to explore and create with shapes. The activity involves placing tiny objects like colored gems, buttons, pulses, stones or other small tokens along the edge of any circular object. Kids learn to recognize the shape and other attributes of it, like what the particular shape look like and how to make them.

Here we are introducing the basics of math and also fine motor and coordination skills, as kids are picking up and placing the bean onto the board using the pincer grasp action.

You will need a circular object and any beans. You can use plates or container lids or even a paper with a circle on it or a circular board like the one we used. 

LO was playing with brown beans and vehicles. The floor was messy with the beans everywhere. To make him clean up the mess I encouraged him to do this activity and it worked out!😜 All the beans went into the dump truck to ease the activity!

I showed him to how to make circle with beans and he fairly did a decent job!

LO wanted to try the same with the shapes beads!

Happy Parenting 😊

Busy Hands at Process art

This time we explored the colors in an unprocessed manner! Yes, we did Process Art this time, with Pine cones, Lollipop and Pom Poms. Process Art belongs to the child. It allows the child to predict, plan, problem solve, and express their thoughts and feelings. Its is entirely their own creation. They use their small motor skills to manipulate the materials and create their masterpiece. LO loved this Process Art and it was completely funtastic! 😊

Materials used:

• Kids washable paint
• Pine Cones
• Pom Poms
• Lollipop!
• White Papers

I chose Pom poms first, since they are absolutely soft in texture!! (Silly me!😊) More over they create amazing patterns with colors. LO wanted to make some flowers with them, so I drew a plant and he stamped different colored flowers with Pom poms. He didn't forget to complete the plant with brown stem!

The next (tool) which we chose to explore with is the Pine Cones. You can't forget the Pine Cones in this absolutely magical Fall season🌲. This is the first time LO trying around with a Pine Cone, so I didn't want to interrupt with his own way of handling it. He dabbed the cone on to the paper with colors on and tried to fill a square!

This one is a completely new category we chose to color with. Yeah, its Lollipop🍭. Ours was white in color, so it didn't create its own pattern. But if you choose to use colored Lollipops, you can explore them painting on paper just with little water and no colors! It would create amazing patterns. We will try to do one in near future. 

The last tool used was LO's busy hands! LO ran out of patience and couldn't restrain himself from making a mess with his fingers😉.It was beautiful to watch the colors get mix along with the little fingers. And yeah we also did Hand Printing.

Happy Parenting!😊