Mess free Sensory Bag Alphabet Play - DIY activity for Kids

This is an easy to setup Alphabet Play and I'm sure this would be a hit with your toddler. I would say this needs lot more work from the little fingers, when moving the alphabets and hence kinda encouraging the fine motor skill. You can spice up this activity with your own thoughts or come up entirely with new stuffs to fill the sensory bag instead of the alphabets.

To people from Tamilnadu the sensory bag fill would look more like a "bajji maavu" because of the color!😜 I just used

• All purpose flour
• Food color
• Magnetic Alphabets (preferably)
• Zip-loc bags - 2
• A white paper

Write few alphabets on the sheet here and there and place it inside a zip-loc bag. Put this zip-loc inside another zip-loc. Then we need to process the flour. LO helped me in doing it. Mix the food color and water to the dough and make a running flour. Then fill this flour inside the outer zip-loc. We do this to minimize the mess. Then put the corresponding alphabets into the bag along with the flour. And now the fun begins!😊

The task is to move the alphabets and match it over the alphabets on the white sheet!! This wasn't easy as I thought to be! 😲The pasty flour didn't allow the alphabets to move with ease inside the bag! 

Hope you love this idea!

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Coloring with Crayons 3

This coloring we did on an evening when I was cooking idly and chutney for supper.  It seemed LO had done with the play for that day, and he got super cranky, that made me not to concentrate on my chutney recipe!! 😝So took a paper and drew the below which I copied from google! Gave him the mobile as reference for colors and I escaped to kitchen!😛

Gave me solid half an hour to cook supper! Happy LO and Happy Me!!!!😁

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Color with Crayons 2

LO was very happy with the first try of DIY coloring sheet. We taped the paper on to the wall and everyday when he saw it, LO was very joyful😁. So I thought to do a second try, with the same concept, the Vehicles!! 

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Color with Crayons - DIY Coloring Sheet

When we are bored of coloring books, we do DIY - "Draw it Yourself" customized coloring sheets!! LO wanted to do vehicles, so we did some of his favorite collection.

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Paper resist painting

Yippee... !!:) This is my 75th post at Sindhu's Cocoon🎈🎉😊😊 So I thought to make it more colorful and also add a surprise element for LO!! This Paper resist painting is so easy to setup and kids will enjoy doing it! 

Using contact paper is the best way to do this art. Since I didn't have contact paper, we just used normal paper and glue stick to hold the shapes in place. 

Materials:

• Paint
• Paint Brush
• Canvas or chart or white paper
• Glue Stick
• Contact Paper (Optional)

I decided to have Butterfly and Heart shapes this time💗. So made different sizes in each with the white paper(Used symmetry property to cut the shapes easily). Glue these pieces on to the big white paper. If you are using contact paper just cut out the shapes and stick them on to the white paper. You can get your kids help in sticking these. Rest is fun! Paint the entire paper with your favorite colors.

Once done, remove the glued pieces...TADA!!! 😀😀😀An amazing paper resist painting all complete!!😊

From my experience I would suggest you to remove the glued pieces when the paper is still wet. Since the glued pieces are easy to remove when wet. If you are using contact paper then it shouldn't be a problem. 

Since this is our 75th post I added some extra fittings!! 😉LO helped me in completing the writing work. I wrote using pencil and he traced over it with a marker! 😊

 All done!! :)

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Valentine's Day DIY Exchange Cards for Kids

Yesterday LO's teacher sent a note that the children can pass out Valentine cards at the classroom!!💝 So immediately me and LO didn't set to work!💗 We had a good long nap 💤after a heavy lunch. After LO woke up he was pestering me to accompany him for the play. So I thought let me occupy LO by doing the Valentine cards for his friends. Evening when we started we didn't have much time, so I planned to make simple cards, with construction paper.

Teacher's note read 13 girls and 6 boys! So I have to make 13+5 cards, before we go to bed! LO wanted to help me, but I didn't have much time to instruct and get help from him. So I asked him to just sign the cards, by writing his name on!!😍 He got so excited in doing so!!💕 Took roughly half an hour to browse for the ideas and then set to work. I planned like red color for girls and lavender for boys. 💖💜

Hope you all like the idea!

Happy Parenting!💖😊

Room 6 Little Ones

LO wanted to write down his pre-school classmate's name on a paper and we did. Then he wanted me to put the paper on the wall😮😀. So I thought I would make one more as a fair copy for the purpose! Initially I didn't have any idea as how to take it, and after writing some couple of names, I thought, let me try calligraphy with the markers!!!😲 Weird idea though!! LO was very co-operative and patient while I was fulfilling all my silly desires!😜 He didn't forget to include his teachers' names. And finally LO decorated with stickers!

Think of similar kind which you can do with your Little Ones, that would make them happy!! 

Happy Parenting!!😊

Make a Pan Flute of your own

Try this DIY Pan Flute with straws. We did this flute in an art and craft class organized for kids, when LO was in his second year. I don't have the step-wise pictures. Here is a youtube link to which you can refer, https://youtu.be/BaymX3qJRbQ. Try this out and enjoy the musical moment🎵🎶

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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Alphabet DIY activity for Kids

The Book "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" by Bill Martin was an inspiration for this activity. We borrowed this book from library long back, may be when LO was in his second year. From then on we love the book completely, because of its illustration and each page is filled with colorful alphabets and musical text. A must read book for your toddler kid. 

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ABC, which is a board book and a shorter version of the longer book is also available. 

Let's get into action! We used paper towel tube and foam alphabets primarily for this activity. If you have magnetic alphabets you can use a cylindrical tin wrapped with brown paper in the place of the paper towel tube. 

I would say this, no preparation activity, just grab the materials and start sticking the alphabets on the tree trunk! LO helped me in sticking the alphabets on the trunk.

Cut the leaves from a green construction paper and make few slits.

Insert them on the top opening of the tube and is all set for the play!!

Try this book and activity and let me know the experience!
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Launching the Interlood Segment

As the blog is nearing its 75th post, I'm super excited to launch the new segment!!! From now on you can see "Interlood" inserted here and there in this cocoon. Those fun-filled moments(activities) of LO with me, which I wanna share with you all, but that wouldn't qualify(quantify) for a post are gonna find a perfect place in this "Interlood" segment. With no definite rules, this segment is gonna be fun combined with awesome ideas for Young ones. Keep watching this space, for many more "Interloods" are on their way!!!! 😊😊😊🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵

Happy Parenting!😊