Design by Kids’ Hands, or Art-group in New Circumstances

The promised story about our stay in the City of Voronezh, or the meeting of the children's art-group in new membership

July 12, 2010, Monday

In Place of Introduction

When returning from the south of Russia to our native city, we stopped in Voronezh at our friends' place for a day (after 13 hours of driving). The main reason for making a one-day break from driving was the conduction of a children's art-group! Having read in "Parents' Ideas" about our art-meetings for kids, our mummy-friends from Voronezhasked us to visit them and give a "guest performance"

WE decided to organize the meetings in the apartment of its youngest participant – 11-month-old Lika. By 10:30 we brought Soniya (2,2 yr.), Andrew (1,7 yr) and Karim (1,7 yr) there. I tried not to think of how everything would go – to conduct an art-meeting in a company of such little ones – that was quite new for me. Before our daughter Soniya had been the youngest at such meetings; she copied the elder kids and we were at home (there were no unknown distracting things there). How everything would go that day – let's see in practice .

The children if not greeted each other happily, they, at least, felt comfortable in the company of each other. Lika was shining with smiles, Soniya immediately figured out where the greatest number of toys was, Andrew and Karim did not fall behind in their investigations, either.

Kids' Creativity

We started with the meditation part – without balance within it is difficult to do any creative work, especially with such little toddlers. Only Karim behaved ideally – he was sitting on his mother's lap quietly and with attention watching everything. Actually, we hadn't expected that the children would sit absolutely quietly. As for me, I was happy that Soniya was participating in all the suggested meditation activities. And what of it that between them she found time to get into the playpen with toys turned onto its side?!

The aim is reached – everybody has got joyful state! We are moving to the second part!… Hm-m-m, Читать дальше…

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The Best Dish When the Weather Is Hot: the Recipe of Beetroot Soup

When we were traveling in the south of Russia it was hot there but not as hot as in the central part of Russia. But even then the beetroot soup was the best decision for lunch. Our southern acquaintances shared the recipe of it with us. And today it's been this dish that we've prepared for lunch (mu hubby eat two plates of soup and was so much full that the rest of the dinner we should have left for dinner).

The recipe of beetroot soup. The best dish weather weather is hot!

Ingredients and preparation

Dice:

• 3 boiled potatoes,
• 3 boiled eggs,
• 2 fresh cucumbers
• some ham

Cut: Читать дальше…

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With a Toddler on Holiday-Going to the Sea

Only recently have we returned from our summer holiday. Together with my husband and our 2-year-old daughter we went to the South of Russia by car (the way to the Black Sea took us 26 hours – we covered 2000 km, and then the same on the way back).

Yes, I know, we should have publish the results and the prizes of the Children's Land-art Festival long ago but it happened so that life moved the dates of our holiday from the planned ones to the ones we have actually spent at sea. So, let us first share with you the photo-story of our travelling and then we will return to land art.

Having covered about 900 km, we made a stop in THE HOUSE OF OUR FRIENDS:

ON OUR WAY-NEAR THE CITY OF ROSTOV-NA-DONU: Читать дальше…

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New Works for Children’s Land Art Contest-Festival

Our gallery of children's land art works is growing! Meet the new participants of the competition-festival:

Children's land art works

21. Yuval with his mother Alla (Israel)

Red Path in a Stone Читать дальше…

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“Parent’ Ideas” participate in a competition

Internet Community "Mothers' Blogs" has launched its first competition. And notwithstanding the fact that officially we are on holiday, we could not but take part in it! The terms of the competition are the following: "interesting mummies' talks in which you participate or hear on the children's playground, some not quite ordinary situations that you are living each day". The prizes for the competition are given by “A Store for a Mother and Her Little One" and Maria Klimova, the author of the book "Talks in a Sandpit, ot Stories from Mothers' Life".

And here is our story for the competition:

The first recollections after the child's birth are always very sweet and memorable: in two hours after Soniya's birth (though then we did not know that it would be Soniya ) my husband came to the hospital and brought us a huge bouquet of orange roses, the first night with a baby (who is not within but beside you!) – I am afraid to fall asleep as what if the child will want to eat, in the afternoon I am keeping our little one under the sun rays falling through the window – a treatment for inogenous jaundice, I am a bit worried but I know that everything will be fine…

There was something else.

Among 1-, 2-, 3-bed wards, I chose the one for two people: there is always someone to ask for help and advice if needed. Unfortunately, my roommate was Читать дальше…

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Competitions organized by “Parents’ Ideas”

The authors of Parents' Ideas are going on holiday for several weeks. But before leaving we cannot but show you the prizes we have just sent to the winners of the competition "The Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds". For Ulya we've prepared her portrait created from hundreds of pictures of hummingbirds (click the pictures to enlarge them):

For Maxim and Martina we've prepared personal diplomas (as they haven't sent us their portrait photos): Читать дальше…

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Adults and Kids Create Together, or the Eighth Meeting of the Art Group

Our holiday turned out to be postponed a little. So, let us share with you some more interesting stories from our life while we are still at home.

Much time has passed since we last had the meeting of the children's art-group! One child is ill then another one… But in May we decided that one of its Sundays will be definitely devoted to the children's meeting but… different circumstances interfered again.

We decided not to give up! And started to adjust the circumstances to us . Marina and Gulya had wanted to drop in at our place for a long time already. "So, we will hold the art meeting with them! And it does not matter that they are adults. They love kids so much " – I thought.

And again circumstances. I'd planned for us one kind of art but it did not happen: just did not have time to buy everything we could need (but everything was for the better – we'll leave that idea for the next meeting with kids ). But, frankly speaking, I was already sure that there would not be any art at all. But in the morning on Sunday Soniya (2 yrs) and I went to the florist's to buy some flowers for the creation of a festive atmosphere in our room!.. And my mind started to work, very quickly, inventing something (already on the previous day I'd felt the state of joy typical for such collective meetings, that is why "nothing" simply could not take place ).

That state increased when we conducted the first part of the meeting – the meditative one! And we started creating in that state of joy!

I offered Soniya, aunt Marina and aunt Gulya the main elements for the future cards: skeletonized leaves and butterflies which we'd bought together with flowers. And all the rest for the cards was what we'd got at home.

The cards turned out to be quite different!

In Soniya's and my variant Читать дальше…

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