June 5th was World Environment Day and The United Nations has chosen "Forests: Nature at your Service" as the theme for the 2011.
Rashmie at Mommy Labs is hosting a creative play party for kids called Forest Fiesta and invited us to be part of it. Putti loves to watch BBC's Planet Earth videos. She loves the storiesfacts that Hemanth tells her about forests, animals, ocean etc. And she had a great time creating her own forest.
It wasn't standing stable as our soil wasnt too deep, so had to snap the twigs short..
And then restoring animals to their natural habitat !
Putti put all of the plant twigs into one tray forest and sticks in the other. And when I asked her why the 'Trees' in the second forest tray did not have any leaves on them? I was hoping she would say 'Fall or winter', but she surprised me and said "Amma, its because forest fire has burnt the leaves down". She had seen huge clouds of smoke while we were driving back from Tampa last weekend and had asked loads of questions and I had shown her some videos on youtube!!
So that's the Aftermath of Forest Fire for you here below :
I wanted to add a watering hole for the animals, so got the lake out from her 'Zoo playset' and she went onto add her big tree. Now that completed our forest setting and she was ready to play !!
See the alligator trying to catch the cow(bcos we dont have wildebeest) who came to drink water....
See the remains of horse lying behind the lion? Also she added some shelter for the Lion and its cub :)
She enjoyed the whole process and the play which continued for long.
Dont forget to check out the linky at the bottom of this post. You'll find various forest activities by children from around the world !!!
Rashmie at Mommy Labs is hosting a creative play party for kids called Forest Fiesta and invited us to be part of it. Putti loves to watch BBC's Planet Earth videos. She loves the stories
Temperature is hitting 100°F daily, the ☼ and the humidity outside is too much to make this outdoor. So putti filled the container with dirt and then we took it inside to create the forest.
Planting the trees from her collection of plant twigs and sticks...
So that's the Aftermath of Forest Fire for you here below :
And here, the horse(in her right hand) is being attacked by a Lion ...
The struggle continued for long.... And finally horse gave away :(
Dont forget to check out the linky at the bottom of this post. You'll find various forest activities by children from around the world !!!
You can participate even if you don't have a blog, by sharing your idea on facebook at Mommy Labs page here or my page here.
