Pista Shells Mosaic Earth

This Earth Mosaic was made using empty Pistachio Shells.

Putti loves eating Nuts and Pistachio is one of her favorite. She loves cracking opening the shells and eating. I do save the empty shells and she often glues them on card stock or cereal box to make some abstract Pista Shell Artwork, simple letters and flowers too.
Last week, when she was gluing some again, I asked her if she would like to make an Earth this time. I told her she could do it just like she did 'Playdough Earth Mosaics'. She first painted a blue circle on a white cardstock. After the paint dried, she glued some empty pista shells over it randomly. Then painted them green. For older kids you can print out a world map and they can glue pista shells onto the continents.

As always, she wanted to make another one, but did not want to wait for the paint to dry, so I gave a her a blue card stock. She glued the empty shells to cover the entire circle. And then painted parts of it blue and green. She now knows very well, that there's loads of water and very little land on our Earth!

Here's a look at both the Pista Shells Earth Mosaic she made.

Today, I am participating in another Earth Day blog hop hosted by Mommy Labs and Greening Sam and Avery. We have been talking about taking care of our earth and I shared the other day, How to make Everyday an Earth Day.  You too are welcome to link up ONE Earth Day post - art, craft, gardening, community service. If you don’t have a blog, you can click a picture of your project and share on Putti Prapancha’s Facebook page. Spread the love by displaying the button on your blog.

Here's a list of all the participating blogs: Hosts: Mommy Labs, Greening Sam and Avery Teach Preschool | Ready.Set.Read | Living at the Whitehead’s Zoo | The Outlaw Mom Blog | Rainy Day Mum | The Golden Gleam | Inspiration Laboratories | Nurture Store | Experimenting Mom | Kids Stuff World | Artsy Craftsy Mom | Creativity My Passion | Imagination Soup | Caution! Twins at play |Rockabye Butterfly | Explore Education | Getting Messy with Miss Jessy | Daria Music | Mama Smiles |Let’s Lasso the Moon | Reading Confetti | The Educators’ Spin On It | Kitchen Counter Chronicles | De tout et de rien | Our Feminist Playschool | The Wise Owl Factory Book a Day | Mommy and Me Book Club | Dirt and Boogers | Carrots Are Orange | Putti Prapancha | Toddler Approved | Imprints from Tricia | Smiling like Sunshine |

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Tissue Box Challenge - Art Caddy

JDaniel4'sMom is hosting a Tissue Box Challenge for the Earth day. The idea is to reuse a tissue box in a fun way with your kids.Well so far I have used tissue box in these ways :

• To store plastic bags. Just fold the plastic bags and put them inside the box. When you need a bag you can pull it out through the top.
• I cut them up(especially the ones with nice designs) to make Gift tags.
• Use them as separators in drawers. Just cut the top part and its ready to use.
• Use them as sorters while playing with toy animals sorting them into farm/wild/pet etc..

For the challenge putti made this Art Caddy!!

Well, i really did not know what to make so just asked putti if she wants to decorate the box. She said 'Sure, lets put stickers'. That would have been fun too but I was sure we were running short of stickers at home. And also wanted something recycly ;) So used up our scrap tissue pieces and glued them all over the box. This was enterily done by putti. Oh how she loves playing with glue :)
After the box was done decorating, we wondered what can be stored in it. And all those colored tissues made me think of colorful crayons. And we poured our crayons into it, but putti had some difficulty picking up a crayon through the small opening so i cut opened the top part partially.

I think this can be used to store putti's collectibles - stones/shells/ twigs/small pinecones..

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Paint chip tree, flowers and earth

Here are the Paint Chip Tree, Flowers and Earth that Putti made. 

After seeing the beautiful paint chip collages at The chocolate muffin tree, I was inspired to pull out my collection of paintchips for putti to play. Putti loved sorting them into color groups - greens, yellows, reds etc. And then, putti cut all the greens into pieces as she wanted to make a Tree.

Then she glued them all onto a cereal box cardboard in the shape of a tree. And thanks for the tip(at chocolate muffin tree) to hold the pieces down and count to ten as the paint chips curl when u apply glue. It was fun counting. Putti counted in english, kannada and spanish too yay!!                

Punched a hole and tied some thread and hung it.

  Putti loved this activity so much, that she went on with it and made some flowers too.

 And with all these recycling craft work, I asked her if she would love to make an earth for the earth day. She loved the idea and went ahead to make it.

Proud putti with her exhibits!! 

Linking this to all places mentioned here.

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Tube family...

Shruthi at mindfull meanderings is hosting a 'Family' themed Artsy-Craftsy this month. We wanted to join in too. We went through our family photos, talked about each person especially the grandparents who live in India. She does love video chatting with them often. We also read the book 'The family book' by Todd Parr.

I gave putti toilet paper tubes and asked them if she wants to draw faces on them to make people she got really excited and jumped right into it. For the eyes we glued paper punch rounds from white paper(Could use googly eyes but i had none at home). Later she drew nose, mouth and painted hair. For hair glueing pieces of yarn would have looked great too. Then she wanted to color in some dress for the people. So she painted the dress. And i suggested if she wanted to add buttons or beads to them. She chose to add the tiny paper punches again for buttons to dad and make necklaces for me and her. And finally she noticed we are all of the same height, so asked to cut her shorter, which i happily obliged.

We later on put on a puppet show for daddy with these tube people, it was fun:)

  

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