Plastic and glue from milk and vinegar

Another use of paper clip

chewing gum

As a high school student, I would chew gum in the morning waiting for the school bus thinking I would typify the aawara.
In Ingenius, author Tina Seelig talks about Tim hurson's Third third where when you think up of uses of an object, your pressed for later ideas are better. In an assignmenet to come up with uses of chewing gum, I was doing research on the ones already known to mankind. Chiclets is a product of our childhood time.
Retrieving valuables stuck in the drain, says Reader's Digest collection of

I had a snack from last nights return gifts and I realised it was packed in a tiny wax paper bag. Grease resistant. 

Bubble favors

Martha Stewart's Handmade Holiday crafts

One day at the parking, I saw a

I didnt know what it was.

I now know it is bubble favors.

Last easter, the chew program had a section on how to make colourful eggs from fabrics and herbs.

felt fortune cookies
Sail that adds the sea texture to a table. My parents got a homewarming gift - a night lamp in a metal sail boat.
Bird ornaments

Playing with paper

Helen Hiebert

Playful learning

A female black swallow tail, with its hind wings held close and down at a slight angle - the front wings span out like a mushroom - Symmetry

A spider web drawn on a paper plate. The symmetric pair of legs each rest concentrically out. Build-a-word set3

playfullearning

The art of giving

Ruby star wrapping

Ladder stitch

Zakka
Melodymiller

Felt balls

What fun things you already do and what else you can as aparent

1001 fun ways to play

When I saw the title of the book, I thought it impossible to have so many ways to have fun. The book has sections for up to 5 years.

The 12+ months category has fewer but still interesting. 

I already made a crown from the 368th way of having fun.

356 pull my blanket. She likes being on the blanket thats pulled around the room.

349 I got her started with laundry just yesterday calling it a goal whenever the washed laundry made it into the dryer

348 She watches her dad do yoga and copies it some time later in the day

396 she plays peekaboo with blanket

Excerpt

Raga n josh

Knowing that sheila dhar is also the author of  the Cooking of Music, I wondered if Rgan josh was after rogan gosh.

Recently a neighbor moving in had a guitar poking out of his truck.
"Do you play guitar?"
"I used to long time ago, but now I need to fix these for other people"
And then he pulled out another.
"Do you play music?". I dont.

The sound of the traffic

from the street recreates vast amounts of water in my head. How did the first person react to the sea for the first time? Did he/she stay fixed in place?
                               

                                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                 Metronome

Make your own maze

Geek Mom - Projects, Tips and Adventures for Moms and Their 21st century families

1. Make your Mobius Maze

Mobius maze

Twyla in 'The Creative Habit talks about solving the maze from the goal. But in life, unless you have the vantage point of god to have a birds eye of your life, you wont know where the goal is.

2. Dungeons and Dragons

Learning alphabets from household things

Alphabet House by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

In the first few pages theres a house front with lot of windows that look like B. I guessed this is the alphabet house where you see a letter on or in the house structure. In the next pages, while I was amused that the playing cards of bunnies have a carrot sign, a closer look revealed that each thing in the house starts with the letter of that page. One would wonder if ways of making alphabet learning fun are left. Looks like not.
The felt look of cutouts glued together adds another dimension to the book. The child can notice different things each time. So its not the book given in the pediatrecian's office where a letter stands for one only one thing.

Everything but the cow flop

Play Farm by Corina Fletcher and Britta Teckentrup

I have seen few pop up books but nothing on this scale where a farm or a windmill comes to life right in front of you. Thelres something about the having a farm even if its made from paper, in front you occupying space. The book can be laid out in the form of a mat which forms a bustling farmhouse scene. I can see it easily becoming like the tea ritual. And when you are all done it folds up into a box with all the colourful animals on the sides. The book also comes with cutouts of animals and vehicles found on the farm, making the farm life that much more tangible.
The book is all that its cracked up to be.
Next thing you'll ask is 'how to make the pop ups'.

Ways of reading

I came across Twyla Tharp’s ‘The Creative Habit’ while reading Tina Seelig’s ‘InGenius’ which I was reading for ‘A Crash course to creativity’.
Twyla Tharp is known as a dancer and choreographer. Terpischore is not the only muse that favored her. She is Clio’s darling too.
In the book Twyla refers to her reading as archaeological, reading back to the source. If you follow links then you are doing the same only to the degree of n, depending on how far you can afford to veer from what you are reading. And when you try to trace back in your head, the place where it all started you are doing another archaelogical trace.

PS: She has two other reading habits

“reading fat”
 We were put through a skim version of this in high school where we had to read the biography, books, awards of an author. In the Hindi book, we were asked to write a letter to the authority of the Golden gate Bridge. That postcard is going to take Forever to reach the concerned authority.
The Twyla’s whole version of it is where you read related texts, contemporary books, commentaries, writer’s letters.
To reach that 3% I watched a youtube video of Twyla Tharp’s ‘In the Upper Room’

Oxford English Dictionary
Terpischore is from Greek ‘delighting in dancing’.
Clio is from Greek ‘Celebrate’.

PPS:
‘The Upper room’ is the light form of Cenacle, where ‘The Last Supper’ happened.

What are your reading habits?

lessons

Your creative autobiography

Reading archaeologically
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box it
20 questions
what leonardo da vinci knew about water

Daring in art

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Brayering

When the painter puts all her techniques in one painting at the end, it still works. At that point, the placement of various techniques is one way to got to analyse the picture.