Put your kids to work!!!

Yes, put your kids to work alongside you, to develop the habit of helping others. Moreover I feel doing tasks together can contribute to strengthen our relationships. LO, right now is in his kindergarten, love to help me in household activities, sometimes he wanted to do all by himself. And while doing so he would say "Ma, you please go and do some other work!!!". I can't resist instructing and correcting him, and he completely doesn't like me interrupting in his work, because of his overwhelming desire to be completely independent!! Now I have corrected myself and understood the ill effects of 'helicopter parenting'! Now I'm resisting myself from not interrupting him! Silly me, parenting is a lifelong learning process, I understood very late! 

But with the toddlers chores may only be completed with your help each step of the way. While their help may not be as helpful as we would think, keeping their enthusiasm and the habit of helping alive is worth the extra work!Ok, Let's get into chores.

LO's vehicle wash!  

Just give them soap water, brush and dipper! Sit back and watch the fun. What would kids do if they are allowed to play with water, that too in this summer! That would be a never ending play! This chore turned out to be a two-in-one for LO, both fun play and vehicles clean up.

He cleaned up his Bicycle, Tricycle, My Black scooty, Red scooty, and his Skateboard scooter. And finally his school bag too! 

Water with soap in a tub. Its bubbles time!

And finally he let the vehicles dry in the sun.

His school bag too had a clean wash!

Happy Parenting😊😊😊

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Make Colorful Leaf Silhouettes - Leaf printing for kids

We are back with paint and brush!😊But this time we have collected some leaves too!🍃🌿🍀Yes, let's do Colorful Leaf Silhouettes! Would be an apt activity for kids to try this summer. Just a random print with leaves to explore their shape and texture on printing them😎 Also check out earlier post on Nature painting!

Lets see how we did it. Me and LO collected leaves of different shapes and size from our garden. We used Kids safe Crayola paint. (You can also use water color, and if doing so don't let the brush too watery). Apply the paint generously on one side of leaf, we did with the upper side of leaf. (No need to mix water with the paint). Flip the painted side on paper carefully. Press gently with your palm. 

Remove the leaf carefully to see the magic. The texture made by the veins and vein-lets is pleasure to watch!😁

Likewise try with all the other leaves, with different colors.

Meanwhile when we let it dry, LO was busy stacking the paint bottles😁

Another way to make leaf printing is take a big leaf and make spots of different colors.

The first try wasn't suffice, so we filled the gap with more colors.

And the final print!

Another way you could try is make the outline of leaves pop! Place the leaf firmly on paper, and trace the outline of leaf using the brush with color of your choice. I love the way the colors make the leaves' outline pop!😊

Make a try with your kids and let me how it turned out. Please share the snaps of your children's  masterpiece.

Happy Parenting!😊😊😊

Give a positive entry : Kid's door decor idea

I always wanted to make kid's room very colorful and attractive. We don't have separate room for LO (yet), so we take control over the entire house! We hang, paste where ever we wish!😀 Check out our Alphabet on wall Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 posts here👆. This door decor idea is for big children who are in Kindergartens. I have compiled words that would create a positive vibe. So decided to put at the entrance, on the door. LO and my niece nephew liked it very much😍What other big recognition would I need? 😍😊

I used the back side of gift wrap paper, since i didn't have any bigger size paper.

Happy Parenting😊😊

City at Night : Paper collage for kids

Making collage is one of my favorite activity (!😜) when I do with LO! Collage always finds a place in my repeat-list, because it's of no mess since there is no paint involved😀. Now LO is close to 6 years and he is doing his best when handling with scissors. So I can just sit back and watch😎! Not exactly though, I help him almost in every step and have discussion about the colors, shape and size of the paper to be cut. We loved this night city collage inspired from artsycraftsymom.com. Hope we have done a decent job! Try this collage and let me know your experience with your kid.

Happy Parenting😊😊

Painting with cotton swabs - Part 2 : Make a colorful tree!

This time we tried painting with a bunch of cotton swabs! Check out our Part 1 painting with cotton swabs. I helped LO in drawing the tree's truck and branches. We just used two colors, pink and white. You could try with many colors to make the tree look more beautiful and multi-colored. Extend your imagination and creativity and let your child create their own masterpiece!😀

 

Happy Parenting!😊

Does it Sink or float? : STEM Activity for kindergartners

Here is another fun filled science activity for water-loving kids!😀LO loves to play with water anytime anywhere😉. He doesn't bother about wetting his clothes while playing, but it bothers a lot when a drop of water/juice/food wets his clothes while eating!😏 Right now he is close to 6 years, still I'm not able to win over the eating time battle!!😕 Going off the track! Let's get into the STEM activity for curious little champs!👦

This is a low-preparation activity, the kids can do either indoor or outdoor. If you are planning to make it indoors, make sure you protect your floor with some sheets/mat to prevent the mess-up by water spillage. 

I prefer to make it outdoor, on the patio, so that LO can get as wet and wild as he like with it!

This is a simple science experiment that will encourage your children to make predictions and observations about buoyancy and density. They’ll learn that buoyant objects float and dense objects sink. I'm sure at this age KGs find it difficult to understand the concept of buoyancy and density. Bigger kids could get the concept, but for KGs this would be an opportunity to get introduced to such concepts. 

Learning apart! Let's get into the fun part.😉

Things we used:

• A tray
• Toys and small objects
• A paper and a pen

I asked LO to get me some objects for the activity. This would probably be a mini scavenger hunt for them! He collected some of his toys, and I gathered some spoons(both metal and plastic),keys, cloth pins, green leaf, etc. 

At the end of activity I planned to make a list, categorizing the objects that would float and sink.

Filled the tray with water.. and the fun began! I asked him to drop the objects one-by-one and observe what happens.

LO already had an insight of sink and float. So it was bit easy to carry the play.
Sink- the objects would go deep into the water!
Float- the objects would stay on the surface of water!

Many questions were raised by LO! Why the bowling pin so big and it doesn't sink, but the small cloth pin sinks? I managed to answer, that the bowling pin is made of plastic so it floats, but the cloth pin is made of a metal so it sinks! Silly though, but the answer convinced him!😜

He forced the thermocol block to get immersed. But it didn't listen!😀

We even had a couple of things that just sort of sank, but kinda floated too. This caused confusion. Finally we sorted out the things in two piles, float and sink.

Again we repeated the play with things that only float, and the things that sink, separately.

And the play went on in repeat mode!!💓😀

Later, we discussed about the play, and listed out the items that float and sink on a sheet of paper.

During the play encourage your kids to talk about,

• Float and sink concepts
• What the floating objects have in common?
• What if an empty plastic container is put in water? and what if the same container is filled with water and dropped in the tray?
• Before placing each object in water you can ask kids to predict whether it would float or sink?

Have a great time playing and discussing about the science concept! Please share your comments in the comment box. It means a lot to me!😊

Happy Parenting!😊😊