The Contest of Children’s Art and Crafts “The Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds”: more on the participants, more on the prizes

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!).

We've got one more art work from the participants of the Contest Читать дальше…

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Homemade Table Theatre – together with a 2-yr-old

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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Painting with Children using a Brush: Interesting Techniques

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).

Painting with Children: wax, watercolour and a brush

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.

Painting with Children: glue, watercolour and a brush

I made some Читать дальше…

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The Children’s Arts&Crafts Contest “A Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds” Is Continuing!

The First Participants

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! 

Prizes

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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What to Give Children Who Do Not Have Mothers?

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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Painting with Children: from wet wipes to shaving foam

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…

Painting with children: wipes and threads

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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Children’s Arts and Crafts: a Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds!

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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