Be Happy, Along with Me!

From the title, you just thought that I am going to give you an interesting recipe for making a fabulous dish. Not actually. Not really. With a toddler at home, often these 'quick ideas' are to make the toddler who is running around madly to gulp down some food and then continue jumping and somer-saulting. I discovered one such idea today morning instantly. Yes, you know, a mother's brain is really good at thinking up such ideas. Without bragging much about motherhood, let me put out the idea which I am sure will help a lot of mothers during meal-time. When my daughter wouldn't just stay in one place and I found it really difficult to feed her those little dosas today morning, I thought 'let me engage her in a hide n seek game of things'. Here are the game instructions to make it more readable for you: 1. You have to tell the toddler that you will be calling out names of things that are present in the house 2. He/She has to take one mouthful of food and ...

My daughter Dhwani turned two this week. I always like to make events memorable for people, giving them something personalized and hand-made is a feel-good factor. For this birthday, we had a small get-together at home with relatives. I made a customized origami doll as return-gifts. This is also a creative home activity for toddlers aged 4 - 7. DIY Doll as return gift:  ‪#‎ Instructions‬   ‪#‎ DIY‬   ‪#‎ Returngift‬   ‪#‎ Birthday‬ Requirements: 1) Origami square craft paper (You will get it in stationery shops), 2) Ice-cream sticks 3) Foam sheet(You will get it in A4 size in huge stationery shops, some of them also come with glitter stuck all over on one side and plain on other side) 4) Fevicol Tube 5) CD Marker - Black 6) Cellotape - Transparent 7) Scissors/ Paper cutter knice to cut out foam sheet Step 1: This link on Youtube will tell you how to make a simple origami dress:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp3Aehoo-wI   . You can make...