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07/10/201115/04/2017

Cards for the dad

This post is for Shruti’s Artsy Craftsy October. I’m hoping it is just the first one.

Here are three cards the kids and I made for The Husband’s birthday..

The first one is by Naisha… The drawing is her’s. I cut it out and stuck it on handmade paper.. that makes the card look like a card.

THE FAMILY: I am taller than The Husband and Naisha has longer hair than me

Here’s Hrit’s. In case you were wondering.. that’s an underwater scene — the ocean full of water snakes and sharks.

And finally one made by three of us … a neck-tie card. The idea came from here. http://crafts.kaboose.com/neck-tie-card.html. There was much secrecy with Naisha asking The Husband his favourite colour and then his second favourite colour.. for the shirt and the tie. It had to be dark blue and light blue… Men, I tell you, have no imagination! So that’s what our card turned out like.

I also found some pictures of rakhi cards that Naisha made.

28/09/201115/04/2017

Back with flowers

Back after a long gap… and what better way than through Shruti’s Artsy Craftsy Challenge. Flowers it is.. I’d been promising Naisha that we’d make egg-carton flowers but had been putting it off for ages… months actually. I can’t begin to count how many cartons I’ve kept for weeks and then thrown out. Finally today since it was a a rainy day we planned not to go down to play and did this instead. The neighbour’s daughter joined us while Hrit was dispatched to the neighbour’s house (in exchange!) so we could work in peace. What fun.

27/06/201115/04/2017

A summer project

Hrit Naisha are hugely into story-telling. They have been making up stories since when they were a little above two.. from simple tales to long winding complicated ones. Most children do that, I think. Naisha’s are full of prince and princesses and evil witches while Hrit sticks with aliens and monsters and scary/friendly wild animals.

We decided to turn one story of each of them into an illustrated book. What fun it turned out to be.

The stories were entirely their own… including the characters’ names! I wont tire you with the stories but they were very much in character with both of them.

I typed and printed them out and the kids stuck them on with the relevant pictures on sheets of paper. Finally I stapled the sheets together to make a ‘story book’. Pretty simple.

Hrit wanted to star in his book as the protagonist. He manfully sat through my amateur efforts at the ‘photo shoot’ after which I printed out the pictures. That was easy. Naisha decided to illustrate her books herself. It took me weeks to get her to make all of them. How many times do I have to make the prince? She’d ask. She did a pretty decent job in the end. The pictures were a bit crooked and the sticking a tad sloppy but the kids were thrilled.

Check out some pages from their books.

Hrit’s story first …