Monday, October 18, 2010

Homemade Gifts: Knitted Toys

I ventured to knit socks for myself… having found that there were almost no heels left in the ones I had knitted several years before. Soniya (29 mo old) is greatly interested in the process: knitting needles, so many colourful hanks – it is something new for her (taking into consideration that it is unlikely that she remembers the transformation of the hanks into wound balls of threads after her games when she was 7 mo old :) ).

Naturally, she also needs needles. But, to my relief (these are too sharp toys for her so far), she quickly turned her attention to the threads and informed me that she was also knitting :)

And only then I remembered that a gift had been lying on the wardrobe for our daughter already for 2 years (no, I am not such an absent-minded mum – I had tried to present Soniya with this gift a year before but then she got frightened, the toy was almost of the same size as she).

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Monday, October 4, 2010

Painting with Kids: paper tape for creating masterpieces

Tip of the Day

As you may remember Natalie has recently raised the issue of making the windows warm for winter… I am continuing the topic :) and will mention the paper tape which we used for the creation of the design for the T-shirt.

We've recently bought new paints. And Soniya (28 mo) is so inspired by the bright colours that she is ready to paint with one colour for ages on end! And her mummy's suggestions to change the colour are not heard at all! Idea!

I suggest Soniya sticking some paper tape to the sheet of paper. She cannot resist the temptation to try it and while working with the tape she was telling me that Читать дальше…

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