Ranganna review and a Craft!

Book Title: Ranganna

Author: Arthi Anand Navaneeth

Illustrator: Kavita Singh Kale

Publisher: Tulika Books

Ranganna the little elephant lives near a dhobi ghat. He is captivated by the brightly coloured nails of his friends and wants to paint his toes too! But whoever heard of an elephant wearing nail polish?! The illustrations, which are a riot of colour and energy, make Ranganna one irresistible picture book. 

No, David! Craft (with free printable)

We recently read the amazingly illustrated 'No, David!' by David Shannon, a Caldecott Honor Book. I really liked the book because at times am overwhelmed at the number of unavoidable 'No's I say. The little boy David featured in the book comes to life in this simple color-cut-paste craft.

Frog Craft

This is one of those spur-of-the-moment crafts. My daughter would say let's do a craft and when I ask her what she wants to do, she will say something that comes to her mind at that instant. This time, its a Frog. 

She is about to turn 3 in a couple of months and mostly enjoys gluing and coloring. Though it sounds limited, there is quite a variety in each category. When it comes to gluing, different things give her different experience, like gluing paper, cotton, glitter, sand etc. 

Four Seasons Craft

Pratham Books' StoryWeaver has an option of creating Flashcards. I tried my hands at creating one depicting Four Seasons. You can view it here.

We also made a simple craft to go with this. I gave her shapes of tree, leaves, snowflakes etc cut from Construction paper and talked about the seasons as she glued them,

Cake Craft - 5 to 8 years

Let's make a Cake because its somebody's birthday everyday ;) And yeah, today is little special because its been 3 years since I started this blog!

Peppa Pig!

Cardboard box Peppa pig with funny misplaced ears! Inspired by Box Yourself

Crab Craft

We read a book called 'Little Jessie's beach fun' and did this crab craft to go with the book's theme. The nice thing about doing crafts is that it not only triggers imagination but also interesting questions, sometimes simple ones that we miss to notice. When we were adding eyes and mouth to our crab, my daughter asked if crabs have nose. And errr, I have never given enough attention to crabs in the first place, leave alone their noses. The answer is that crabs don't have nostrils like we do. They have gills to breathe and use 'Chemoreception'(using chemical signals) for smell.