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How do children create a flying butterfly out of paper?
“Don’t limit your children’s full potential and give them free choice.” There were plans to make a fly ladybug from paper but with my children you don’t plan, with my children you create what comes to mind at a given moment. After many years of experience, I endorse this ideology of unplanned DIY projects. My kids choose the crafts themselves, so don’t expect them to ask for anything, such as getting a drink or wiping the glue off their shirts. Sit quietly on the sofa, relax, and be amazed that your children create something beautiful together. The DIY projects of “my little puzzles” do not require any cost from you.…
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MY NEW LOOK ON MOM RETURNING TO WORK AFTER MATERNITY
I love being on teams with working mothers. They are the highest functioning messes I know.”-MARICAR SANTOS- When you read this, some of you will be outraged by my comments, and others will laugh. I know this because I’ve shared my opinions on returning to work, its pros and cons, more than once in a group of mothers. Just as each of us has a different approach to raising children, each of us grapples with the decision to return to work. https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/the-ugly-truth-about-working-mothers-sacrifice/ I didn’t wait long with my first child, just like with my second, and after 10 months, when my maternity leave ended, I returned to work. There were…
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How do children make colorful umbrellas?
“I prefer living in color.”David Hockney In our wonderful, tiny mountain village ( Frydlant nad Ostravici ) we have the return of winter, there is a lot of snow and it is still falling. My children ask me every time the frost and snow return, will it be Christmas again? The Christmas tree in their room is still up, so it seems like Christmas never stopped. I spend a lot of time outside with the kids and maybe we would spend more, but it gets gray and gloomy so quickly. Our mornings are no longer with beautiful sun, but with snow. Every January day we miss this sun and colors, but…
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How to use dry rice in children’s DIY projects?
In the creative corner of “my little puzzles”, we often use materials to create works of art, that we have in the cupboards at home. My children like projects in which they realize themselves and come up with patterns, sketches, colors, and projects according to their ideas. For very cool and simple DIY projects you can use dry pasta https://littlepuzzlesandme.com/how-children-create-a-pasta-bracelet-from-dry-pasta/ or dry rice. I dye this material in different colors the day before so that it dries. And next day I already give my children a colorful and dry product to create.This project works well when you want to keep children occupied for 1 to 2 hours and not worry…
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How the children made a jumping bunny out of paper?
“EVERYBUNNY NEEDS SOMEBUNNY SOMETIMES” I’d like to say that it’s spring outside the window, but I will lie. The snow and frost are back again, which of course is amazing for my kids. They have another snowball fight and come home drenched. However, this does not change the fact that my children have lost all their energy. In the afternoon, when they are at home, they still want fun or creativity. Very often my older son jumps, runs and behaves like the rabbit from the “Duracell battery” ad. This gave me the idea to create with my “little puzzles” a DIY PAPER BUNNY. But not a calm, cute bunny sleeping…
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What do children create on Valentine’s Day?
My “little puzzles” started the Valentine craze during the winter holidays. The power of creation has also passed to my goddaughter and in a creative corner, we will present as many as 3 artistic crafts. The youngest Dorothy will take care of gluing, her favorite form of creating art. Patrick needs to have a more complex and preferably more dangerous project because he loves using paper staplers. And Victoria created a card with a magically changing color heart. This time surprise for adults – print your own love coupons ⇊ click here ⇊ What little puzzles will be created today? CARDS FOR VALENTINE What my little puzzles don’t need? DISTURBING PARENTS…
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What children can create with plastic bottles and straws?
There were plans, as always, to make a paper animal other than a spider. With my son, you don’t plan, with my son we create what comes to his mind at a given moment. Patrick now chooses shapes, colors, and the entire handicraft design. Original design idea, it was about a ladybug or a bird or anything else but not a spider. However, since I prefer children to choose what they create and use their own imagination, I accepted the spider with feigned delight. The DIY projects of “my little puzzles” do not require any cost from you. They are usually made of items intended for recycling (plastic bottles) or…
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MOTHERHOOD IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND HARDEST PART OF LIFE
“Because of my children, I laugh like a crazy woman, cry like a wimp, and feel love more than ever before.” The above funny quote that starts today’s post is 100% true and is an exact example of me as a mom. Motherhood hasn’t changed me much, but it has shown me a new level of love. Being a new mom with no experience and many questions every day about what to do with a little new creature in my arms was difficult. During my first months with a newborn, I would describe myself as a mom crying like a wimp more than a mom laughing like a crazy woman. …
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How do children make Christmas trees from pine cones?
“Good art is not what it looks like but what it does to us”. – Roy Adzak My little puzzles and I took a trip to the forest to collect nature’s beautiful gifts – pine cones, for our Christmas projects. Then we went with my son to his favorite decorating store. We purchased everything we needed to create our DIY art, including additional glues, paints, glitter, strings, pom-poms, and colored paper. When my son picks glitter colors, I notice a lot of Christmas stuff around. I stopped next to the shelf with front door decorations. These door decorations are made of plastic, green Christmas tree branches with plastic bells and…
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How do children prepare an Advent calendar?
“Christmas doesn’t come from the store. Christmas is family and a lot more time together”. There are signs of approaching winter in my village. Drivers struggle with frosted car windows, it gets slippery underfoot, and excited children look out for the first snow every day.My little puzzles slowly change autumn DIY projects into winter ones. And since winter is associated with the celebration of Christmas, we will start with a very simple, cheap but very meaningful craft which is The Advent Calendar. Being a parent myself, I know what the stories of having an advent calendar with sweets look like. My kids wanted chocolate every morning because a new day…
