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Back to our crazy dinosaurs again! Looking forward to capture more of them artworks while in the process : )

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In a glance they may look intriguing! Our 3rd and 4th graders could outline with ease, although it took a while to build on the thicker outlines with glue. Used aluminium foil, cardboard, white glue and black paint. Try making them and we'll help out with your queries if any. Happy creating : )

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 It feels great to get back to our art adventures! Nothing can match the excitement and enthusiasm of the kids who attended the recent art event and their amazing artworks! We had great fun working together! Here are a few awesome artworks for viewing. 

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Creativity quotes that have always inspired me. These are truly great words that are good to motivate and inspire our children's creativity and love for art. In this post I have include my treasured quotations of Henri Matisse, Albert Einstein, Edgar Degas, Aristotle, Mary Angelou, Loris Malaguzzi, Mary Ann Kohl and Mary Lou Cook that ignite inspiration. "Art takes nature as its model"

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This past week was full of amazing art and craft activities. Especially because it was the spring break and as always we had a lovely list of topics planned for our holiday session. I was really happy to use up our big collection of cereal and cookie boxes this time. Although we had to find more boxes, as more dino lovers joined the gang! This happens all the time! So here are the 'Prehistoric

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We needed gifts bags for our sharing day, something easy and quick to make. So I came up with these holiday gift bags which turned out pretty nice and neat and most importantly the fastest ones I could make. They looked good with handles in different colours. Materials required: Card stock, pva glue and craft foam and hot glue for the handles. I used card stock 170 gsm which were

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Today we have added this wonderful pencil pouch to our easy gift making ideas. We haven't been using much of craft foam these days and I've been waiting to post this for almost a year. The pouches are really easy to make and look pretty neat! It was a GREAT activity to engage my 8 to 10 year olds. We had so much fun whilst everyone chose their foam sheets and designed their clasps . We

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We had this lovely bracelet making class with 8 to 11 year old children. We used pipe cleaners with beads for the easier ones. We used the elastic strings and beads for the stretchy ones, which can be on the not super easy level. The elastic string ones took much longer to make and turned out really pretty. So they were made again as gifts especially for mother's day! It is about

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This activity involves printing two different shapes in an alternating checkerboard arrangement. Using two different colours or shades of the same colour makes it interesting. The activity encourages children to observe the order of shapes and colours. We will need two small cardboard rolls or tp rolls to create the shapes and some poster /gouache paints. Drawing a grid makes it easier to print

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We had a great Christmas celebration 2015! Everyone super enjoyed. It was an event filled with excitement and sharing.  Well, for me working the whole thing to success was to put in a lot of planning plus a huge amount of work. So that meant a long break from posting updates, less time for gardening or discovering new recipes. Every week was filled with a long list of things to do. I

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Children often come in with last minute projects to complete. Here is one such example.We printed a few pictures of the Colosseum for guidance.Corrugated cardboard or cardboard box were used for the base and the main building. The cardboard cutout of a carton was easy to roll and secure, so it is better to choose a slightly softer version of cardboard. Paper tape was good to secure the shape and

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Looking through my leaf souvenirs forged in brass or made of brass,it just struck me to use some of my brass leaves for our autumn leaves activity. These brass leaves had interesting details and worked well as nice molds for our leaves. Supplies: Plastic or metallic leaves with embossed / engraved details, Peach or white air dry clay and acrylic paints in various colours. We used a rolling

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We made these rope coasters in our classroom. Supplies: Cotton rope (we used white), PVA Glue, acrylic or fabric paints and brushes. Children painted them beautifully and it turned out to be a rewarding holiday activity :)

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Happy Raksha Bandhan to all our readers! Here are some of the rakhis we've created this week. We used: Card stock, ribbons, craft foam, beads, buttons, thread, PVA glue, permanent markers, felt pens etc.  

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Finishing up our Rainforest themed fortnight, the children viewed various rainforest frogs and discovered  interesting facts about their habitat and life cycle.They also had fun creating their versions of colorful frogs! Print our frog template or make your own cutout and enjoy!  Print our rainforest frog on card stock and let the children choose markers or colored pencils for

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This is a very simple craft project. A great activity to add to a holiday crafts list. While wrapping the empty shampoo bottles we also tried painting some of them. You may check out our previous post on how we painted some lovely vases. Choose colourful yarn (left over yarn can be very useful now), plan the pattern, cover the part to be wrapped with glue and start rolling / wrapping the

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This was one of our gorgeous spring time activities. Great activity for children age groups 8 to 10 years. It involves drawing, colouring and cutting.

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Our holiday workshops are never complete without book reading or writing sessions. Making bookmarks is a part of the funopolis!! Have you ever wondered how the term bookworm came about? And that the term is believed to be used since the 1500s!! As the dictionary goes, a person who spends much time reading or studying or enjoys reading a lot is called a bookworm. While Mr. Bookworm is

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Easy activity reusing plastic bottles. They can also make great mother's day gifts! Step one is to wash and dry the plastic bottles.  Draw a line all the way around the bottle using a felt pen before cutting.  A sharp cutter is required for cutting thick plastic bottles like fabric softener and shampoo bottles.  To speed up the process, the blade can be slightly

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We had a week long painting activity for our 5 to 8 year olds, around the time of Holi. The theme was simply 'Colourful'! Which meant anything colourful, vibrant, using as many colours in our artworks! The activity progressed in the following order : Choose a cutout of any shape - Use it as a stencil to draw the shape - Think of all the lovely patterns that could fit into the chosen shape -

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We made Christmas goody bags using cardboard and foam handles! Yes, they really turned out lovely and everybody loved them! The design looks simple, yet requires effort in cutting and sticking and was a major job for me :) We used up a whole lot of our cardboard collection to cut out equal semi circles. Broad strips of brown paper were used to stick the semi

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Arjunn is a fourth grader and loves making stuff out of cardboard boxes. We all love the transformer he has made using empty toothpaste cartons.  We followed the 'cardboard car'  making method and turned the cardboard box inside out. He could also add hands to his robot :) This transformer robot has inspired others to make their own robots!! Ha ha! Great job,

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What can we do with our favorite pencils when they start getting shorter and we do not want to chuck them into the bin as yet? How to extend a pencil then? One way is to find old pens that can fit in as extenders as shown below. However it is not feasible to find old pens to fit our pencils always! Here is another simple way to extend those pencils once they get

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Dot painting was one of the favorite topics during our last holiday workshop. The children were asked to list animals they can represent in their painting. After trying out a few basic ideas, we decided to do 'fish and bubbles' for our 90 min group session with my second and third graders. Well, it did extend into another one hour session for some of us! The children had a great time planning

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Lines and shapes do make gorgeous patterns!! Especially when combined with an array of great colors! The children were given the leaf pattern and a vibrant set of poster paints. They chose to paint them mostly colourful. Once that dried up, they tried making various patterns on the leaves using contrasting colours.  I loved the patterns and the beautiful colours. So vibrant and stunning!

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