Aalam Play

Let’s create a PAPER FOREST

Things needed: Cardboard Thick paper (use chart paper/paper bags), Pencil, Scissors, Paint/crayons

Instruction:
Draw small triangles on the chart paper/paper bags and cut them out using scissors. (Be careful while using the scissors, don’t cut yourself!)
Color the triangles with green crayons/paint. Now cut some rectangles out of cardboard to make the trunks of your trees (Color them black/brown)
Glue them to the triangles to make the trees. Use a piece of cardboard as ground to paste your trees. Now fold a small portion of the trunk and glue it to the piece of cardboard.
Can you glue the other tree too in the same way?
Make sure that you keep some distance between the trees.
There you go! PAPER FOREST!

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Let’s play Match
Suggested Age: 3+
Skills: Gross motor and Visual memory
Things needed:
A pair of socks, shoes, shirt-pant, pencil-eraser, lock-key, needle-thread, bucket-mug, glass-spoon, cup-plate etc.
Instruction:
Take one item from something that is a pair such as a sock, a shoe or a pencil and ask your child to find the object which pairs with it.
Give options or hints if needed.
Ask him/her to bring the matching object of that pair.
Tell us how many were they able to find in the comments below.

Let’s create a Eco Friendly Rakhi

Thing needed:

Thread, Common flowers from your garden, Small leaves, Glue, Rice/Daal, Pen/pencil

Instruction:

Take a small piece of thread (around 15-20 cm).

Make holes in the leaves and flowers using your pen/pencil.

Pass the thread through the leaves and flowers (if the flower is too big then use the petals separately, for example rose petals).

Insert the flowers and the leaves on alternate positions in the thread.

Use a bigger sized leaf in the center.

Make two holes in the leaf with the help of your pen to pass the thread through it.

Now spread some glue over the middle leaf.

Take a handful of rice/daal and sprinkle it over the glued leaf.

Let the glue dry.

Celebrate the Rakhi with this green band.

Let's build a stick tower

Things needed:
Sticks (Broomsticks, Toothpicks, used pen refills), Apple/dough/playdough

Instruction:

Cut an apple into small pieces. Alternatively if you are using dough, then make small balls of dough like how you make for roti/chappathi.

Join the dough balls/apple pieces using sticks.

Can you try building different structures?

How tall can you build?

Share your tallest tower with us :)

Chennai, India

Make a Lemon car

Things needed: Four lemons, Any small cardboard box, 2 sticks/ballpen refills

Instruction:
Make a hole at one end of the cardboard box with the help of the refills or scissors to pass the stick/refill through it.
Make another hole at the other end.
The holes should be big enough for the sticks/refills to freely move.
Now insert the sticks into the holes.
Fix the four lemons at the end of the sticks.
Your car is ready to zoom!

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Can you twist your tongues?

Things needed: Just your tongue :)

Instruction:
* Say the tongue twisters - both parents and kids

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

* Record it as a video or audio.
* Share it with us :)

Let’s go Color scavenger hunting

Instructions:
Ask your kid to move around the house and search for things which are red in color.
Examples: A toothbrush, an apple etc.
They can simply point to those things or name them.
How many red things were they able to find?!
Comment below.