What did we do with our old calender?

My daughter was keeping an eye on the pictures in the last year calender since I hung it. As soon as the new year  was born , she cut all the  pictures in it and we pasted them on the wall and made a theme with it  to educate her younger brother. On the other hand, the little [...]

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SmART silhouettes

  Great was the family sunday at the SMART  musuem, Chicago. It is a day when everybody in a family attend art workshop, do some family project, listen to a concert etc. These silhouettes were done on one such sunday. With the kid standing against a bright light, the shadow is made to fall on a paper [...]

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Fall colors everywhere!/Rawa Kesari

It is lovely to walk along the road side, making a ‘charak charak’ sound with the leaves . As the leaves fall, they know their destination , still they give their life a colorful ending. Their  bond  with the tree is in the hands of a breeze. Some leaves get knocked by a mild breeze, some [...]

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Oven baked idol of Lord Ganesh

Yet another creation by my girl. As I told you here, my girl attended  and  really enjoyed the ‘Art  Afternoons’ on wednesdays  at the SMART musuem, this summer.  One such afternoon, we did crafts with oven bake  clay. This is just like  a play doh but needs to be baked at 350 deg for 45 min for hardening.

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My girl in the spotlight!

I have a lovely, active , extraordinary creative  daughter who is a first grader now.As a sample for her activities… This is what she made at the SMART  musuem  (‘Art Wednesdays’) in her summer vacation. Of course , I helped her!!                                         

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