It has been a long celebratory weekend in India. After the long nights of dancing during Navratri, the celebrations culminated with the auspicious Dussehra Pooja. India has thus witnessed a long awaited weekend break from school. We grabbed the days off and took the kids to visit their grandparents. It wasn’t a long road trip,Read more
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Foam! As a kid I loved foam. My kids have this gene from me. They absolutely love it. And so does the internet. There’s so much dedicated to this as a sensory exploratory material. So we decided to have our own sensory play foam fun yesterday. It was fantastic! We spent the larger part ofRead more
We just finished a birthday in the house. In an earnest endeavor to have a worthwhile, no-casualty-no-blood play date comprising of 6 year old boys and girls on boosters, I planned a hot-mix of play and down time activities. The party got done in under 3 hours and is completely doable for kids of 6Read more
DIY Kids Crafts: Twig People We are big fans of DIY Kids Craft. We have been using these stick people in the house for a while now. The younger one loves doing her counting with these. And the older one is making a Twig People Army! We also used some of these for the DIYRead more
The little one has outgrown the crib and though I would love to have a third baby, I simply cannot. So this brings me to the question on reuse of the old baby crib. While I browsed around, here are some great ideas I found! REUSE OF THE OLD BABY CRIB #1 I loveRead more
Caring for the planet that you live in doesn’t happen on a whim. It is something that probably starts young. And call me hopeful, but this year I took up the concept with my 2 year old. So this World Environment Day 2016, my daughter and I celebrated by creating a DIY Planter from somRead more
My kids and I just watched the Angry Birds movie last Sunday. While I thought it was quite alright, my son loved it!! We got these little Angry Bird toys as giveaways in a lucky draw at the movie. So here’s what we did with them! We made some awesome DIY Frozen Angry BirdRead more
DIY CD Hovercraft My son had a ‘Toy Making’ event in school and it was quite a brain cracker for me. For someone who just got by science in school, this was tough because there had to be a scientific principle behind its functioning. Hmmm…. *grey cells cranked* I remembered seeing this awesome ideaRead more