Very soon the results of the Children's Contest of Arts and Crafts devoted to Rainbow Hummingbirds will be known and we, the authors of Parents' Ideas are announcing a new Contest – the contest for children's land art works (what land art is you can learn in the interview with Richard Shilling, an English land art artist and sculptor.
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Meet the new participants of the contest "The Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds"!
Maxim, Yana's friend
The hummingbird sitting on the tree brings happiness to one's house
Olya Reutova, 4 yrs, Ukraine
This hummingbird is made of millet, rice and fried peas! Читать дальше…
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We've got tons of Arseny's gouache paintings. Till some time I'd put them into a folder hoping that I'd get some idea of how to use such beautiful material in design 
. Just to keep "for memory" is not interesting as everything important and marking some landmark has been already photographed and we are not inclined to creating archives.
It seems, we finally got an interesting idea – see for yourself:
This example just illustrates the technology of using children's paintings for the interior design but one can find lot's of ways to use this idea Читать дальше…
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After talking to Richard Shilling the walking with our little daughter (23 mo) got a new dimension.
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So, what honourable mention prizes are waiting for the participants of the Contest "The Month of Rainbow Humingbirds"? Ekaterina has guessed right: stickers the hummingbirds on which (from the nest to the flights) are drawn by the authors of "Parents' Ideas". Here you can read more about the main prizes.
One more image from the gift set of stickers:
Paintings and crafts are still coming and today we are introducing you five more participants of the Contest: Читать дальше…
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Have you ever heard of such kind of art as Land Art?
It involves making art and sculptures using materials you find in nature, such as leaves, fir cones, twigs, pebbles, rocks, sand and shells. Usually, sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather, the landscape is the means of their creation.
Endless Knot
Land Art can add so much fun, beauty and positive emotions into the process of the child's upbringing. Moreover, it can unite children and adults when they create "as equals" contributing to each others' ideas and learning from each other and from nature.
Floating Leaf Boat
When creating art and sculptures among nature both children and adults:
Today we are very honoured to introduce you Richard Shilling, an English land artist, sculptor, photographer and film-maker who has recently published the first of a series of Land Art for Kids books in partnership with Julia Brooklyn.
In the frame of our Project
Richard will tell us more about Land Art and how kids can be involved into it. Читать дальше…
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The contest of children's arts and crafts on " rainbow hummingbirds" continues as well as the quick contest devoted to our honourable mention prizes. So, what is this honourable mention prize like? The one who'll guess right will get the prize without participating in the main contest.
And now we are publishing a second part of the honourable mention prize prepared by the "Parents' Ideas" (read more about the main prizes for the contest here: Children's Arts and Crafts: a Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds!).
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When being with a child, an opportunity to create a whole world from nothing during some 5 minutes always attracted me. Parents' Ideas has already described one of the means of how to do it (Play Drawing with Children, or Escher in a Children's Manner).
And one of these days Arseny and I created a whole world again a table theatre stage – spontaneously using only scissors and colour cardboard. It was Arseny (a boy of 2) who suggested the idea of how to make it.
It should be mentioned that Arseny's main passion is cars and the most popular situations in his games are when a car faces an accident, it is broken and needs immediate fixing. But he does not fix his cars just anywhere, the car needs a car service station! (thanks to the book about an unforgettable mole).
The mole is dragging the car to the car service station and Arseny feels very sorry for it
So, during our games I often suggest: Читать дальше…
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Notwithstanding the fact that painting with hands is more attractive for Soniya than any other methods of painting (tactile senses ), we do not avoid using a brush from time to time. And to make the art process last longer we have been applying interesting techniques for painting with a brush as well. (Soniya is currently 23 mo old).
The mummy is drawing some image with a brush on a sheet of paper and then suggests her little one that she should find "who has hidden there". Soniya is spreading colour on paper with a brush and happily informs me who lives on it.
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Spring is blossoming and our Contest "A Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds" is gaining strength, too. And here are the first participants! They are Irina Kovtun (8 yr.) and her mother Natalya Kovtun from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Irina painted this hummingbird which is really rainbow and happy :
This bird is waiting for her friends! All the art&craft works participanting in the Contest will be published in our gallery (with the links to the blogs of the parents of their creators, if there are any). We are sure that everything which is handmade and homemade, be it paintings or crafts, is carrying joy and encouragement!
About half a month is left until the results of the Contest are announced. We are looking forward to new participants!
And now, as we've promised, the prizes themselves! The three main prizes from the Parents' Ideas Little Store Читать дальше…
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One of our friends knowing that we often make some art and crafts with our toddlers told us about her friend who, taking care of her recently born daughter, also finds time and strength to visit a children's home and hold craft classes there. We were impressed! And, of course, we decided to get acquainted with Elena, a young mother from Moscow, Russia.
Parent's Ideas: Elena, how did the idea to teach crafts to kids in the children's home occur to you taking into consideration the fact that your daughter was very very little?
Elena: Eleven months ago our daughter Kira arrived at our family. This event meant the beginning of a new life for us, the life full of incredible love, enormous responsibility and many beautiful moments. Taking care of our child I was thinking about the children who do not have mothers. My heart ached: my child is lying beside me, it is warm and comfortable for her and somewhere there are children who are alone and they suffer without their mums. First I tried to ignore these thoughts but they did not want to go away. And one evening, having put the baby to bed, I started looking for the information how one can help children living in children's home in the Internet. I consider it to be a miracle that in just a couple of minutes Читать дальше…
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Soniya (22 mo) is painting with finger paints almost every day.
And for some time already I've felt that some new painting technique should be introduced into our painting for the mum child not to get bored. So, once again we are taking out the finger paints…
We painted as usual: with fingers, palms, balls. Nothing special until we decided that it was enough for that day!.. And here came an idea! The wipe Читать дальше…
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April is a Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds. And we are announcing a Creativity Contest! We invite all the children, their parents and friends (participants and guests of the Parents' Ideas blog ) to create his/her own, unique, hummingbird with pencils, paints, crayons, from colour construction paper, cloth, clay, etc… All the arts and crafts created by kids (with the help of adults, if necessary) are accepted. The only condition is that there should be a hummingbird in the work.
At the end of April there will be chosen 3 winners – through a drawing And we have also prepared gifts for all the participants! Which ones? It is a surprise so far (check the info about the contest in our blog). We are sure that everything that Читать дальше…
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We found a new kind of art: painting with daddy's shaving foam on the chest of drawers. Beautiful, tasty smell and easy to remove #ananas #
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Not only Soniya (22 mo) but also I, her mum, was decorating Easter eggs for the first time in her/my life. And here is what we've got:
Both eggs were boiled before being decorated but another way could be the following: to pour the content of the eggs out through a little hole and use the shell for decoration (thus, the eggs could have a longer life).
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It seems each mum loves keeping imprints of her child's hands (and feet, if possible). And how many beautiful compositions, interesting images can be made with hand and foot imprints! And in some 10+ years your grown-up baby will look through these pictures with much interest…
In the part of our blog which is in Russian we asked our readers to send us the pictures they have painted together with their kids using hand and foot imprints. And here are their and our ideas. Hope you'll enjoy!
Sent by their mother Nadezhda
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