Šarene narukvice (U borbi protiv dosade br. 1) - Colourful bracelets (Boredom buster No. 1)

Ni nas nije mimoišao grip... Ema je bila kod kuće više od nedelju dana. Čim je temperatura spala, dosada se javila. Budući da ja radim (od kuće) i ne mogu da uzmem mnogo slobodnih dana, morali smo pronaći neke aktivnosti koje ona može da radi sama. U ovom i u nekoliko narednih postova ću vam opisati kako smo sve popunili vreme.

Za ove narukvice vam je potrebno sledeće:

• rolne toalet papira
• tempere/vodene boje/voštane boje/drvene bojice
• šljokice i lepak
• podloga za radni sto

Ema je provela dobri dva-tri sata zabavljujući se. Svi članovi porodice, i bliže i šire, su dobili primerak :)

Ideja: BestToysForToddlers (FB stranica koju toplo preporučujem)

Unfortunately, the flu did not miss us this year. Ema spent more than a week at home. And as soon as the fever went down, boredom came up. Since I work from home and cannot take many days off, we had to come up with activies the child can do mostly on her/his own. In this and the next few posts I will tell you how we filled our time at home.

To make these bracelets you need the following:

• used up toilet paper rolls
• water colours/crayons
• sequins and glue
• a protective sheet for the worktop

Ema spent over two hours having fun with these bracelets. All our family members now have one :)

Source: BestToysForToddlers (a FB page that I wholeheartedly recommend)

Porodična jelka - A Family Christmas Tree

Saradnja među blogerima je divna stvar! Putem ovog bloga upoznala sam autorku bloga Mama, hoćemo nešto da pravimo i započela je super saradnja. Jednom prilikom mi je M. rekla da je u prodavnici u svojoj blizini naišla na penastu gumu i da se setila mene, te se ponudila da mi kupi nekoliko komada i pošalje. Zahvaljujući mojoj prezauzetosti, a i obilju ideja u vezi sa ovim materijalom, tek sada smo stigli da ga iskoristimo (zajedno sa šljokicama koje su takođe bile u paketu).

Iako smo samo Ema i ja pravile ove jelkice (više Ema nego ja), praktično su učestvovali svi članovi porodice, makar time što su nam ostavili otisak svoje šake. Jelke možete da okačite na svoju pravu novogodišnju jelku kao ukras, da ih zalepite na čestitku i tako ih poklonite nekom, da ih zalepite na ulazna vrata (mi smo onu najveću, sa četiri šake, zalepili na vrata stana) i još mnogo toga. Sve što vam je potrebno je šaka, olovka, makaze, penasta guma (mada možete upotrebiti i filc ili hamer ili kolaž papir), lepak, šljokice i to je to!

 

 



 Cooperation between bloggers is a wonderful thing! During my blogging, I have met a fellow blogger (Mom, let's make something), a very creative mother of two. She came accross these craft foam sheets in a nearby store and thought of me. She offered to send me a few sheets and a some glitter, but due to my busy life and the huge quantity of ideas with this material, they remained unused until now.

 

Even though only me and Ema (well, mostly Ema) worked on this project, the whole family was involved in a way, even though only by leaving a handprint. You can use these Christmas trees as ornaments for your big Christmas tree, you can glue them on a sheet of paper and make Christmas cards, you can use them to decorate your flat, or glue them to your front door (as we did with the biggest one, with all four handprints). All you need are some handprints, a few sheets of craft foam (you can also use fleece, cardboard or whatever you like), scissors, glue, glitter and that's it!

 

Tačka, tačka, tačkica... - Happy dots

Još jedan maratonski projekat je završen! Počela sam u martu 2013. i završila u julu 2014. Naravno, u međuvremenu se svašta drugo izdešavalo, ali mislim da mi je ovo zaista rekord. Ćebe je rađeno od St. George pamuka, po ovoj mustri. Veoma je jednostavno i verujem da i početnici u heklanju neće naići na neke veće poteškoće. Ovaj projekat je bio zamišljen kao nešto što ću da radim u pauzi između drugih projekata, kao i nešto što mogu da radim dok ćaskamo na pletačkim druženjima, pošto mi se čini da tu više param nego što pletem :)

My second loooong project is finished. I started it in March 2013 and finished in July 2014. Of course, lots of things have happended in the mean time, but still this is my longest running project. The blanket was made using St. George cotton and this pattern. The squares are quite easy and very interesting to make, so I think that even beginner crochethers would have fun with them. I planned to do these squares in between other projects and during our knitting group meetings, because it seems that I do more frogging than knitting while we laugh and talk :)

 

U potrazi za blagom - Treasure hunting

Ema strašno voli da traži skriveno blago i prati uputstva ili mape. Zimus smo pravile fosile dinosaurusa i skrivali ih po stanu sa pisanim uputstvima (pogledajte ovde) što je naišlo na ogromno oduševljenje. Tu igru često igramo opet.

Letos smo proveli nekih desetak dana na planini, između igranja fudbala sa drugarom, ljuljanja na ljuljaškama, puštanja zmaja, planinarenju po brdima i vulkanskim stenama, ostalo je vremena i za traženje blaga.

Nacrtala sam jednu uprošćenu mapu našeg dvorišta i grafitnom olovkom sa „X“ označila gde su sakriveni gorepomenuti fosili. Deca su se naoružala baterijskom lampom i dobrom voljom i krenula u potragu. Kada su ih sve pronašli, izbrisali smo oznake, pa krenuli iznova. Zatim su se dogovorili da će jedno od njih da sakriva fosile, a drugo da traži, pa da se menjaju. A možete im i organizovati takmičenje.

Sve u svemu, super igra da vežbate snalaženje u prostoru i praćenje uputstava, a i da se deca fizički aktiviraju. Ukoliko nemate dvorište, možete se igrati i u stanu ili parku ili gde god želite. Uživajte :)

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My daughter really likes looking for hidden treasure by following instructions or maps. This winter we made dinosaur fossils and played a game where she had to find them following textual instructions (see here). She enjoyed that very much and we play that game often.

This summer we spent about ten days in the hills. After playing football with her friend, swinging on the swings, flying a kite, hiking in the hills and volcano rocks there was some time left for treasure hunting.

I made a pretty simple map of our back yard and marked the spots where those fossils were hidden with a pencil. The kids found a flashlignt, took the map and headed off to look for the treasure. When they found the fossils, we erased the „X“ marks on the map and started all over again. Then they made a deal that one of them will hide the treasure and that the other would look for it on their own, and they would later switch parts. And you can also organize a competition and give each of them a map with different hidden treasures.

All in all, this is a great way to practice spacial awareness and following instructions and it's also a cool way to get your kids to move around a bit more. If you do not have a back yard, you can play at home, or at the park or wherever you wish. Have fun :)

 

Crtež u prirodnoj veličini - A lifesize drawing

Vrlo je jednostavno - veliki list papira (ja sam uzela natron papir, možete i hamer) stavite na pod, dete legne i postavi se u pozu koju želi, vi opcrtate oblik i pustite mašti na volju. Crtež možete

„obući“ kako god želite (gusar, vila, astronaut, itd.), odeću možete obojiti ili lepiti tkaninu, papir, šljokice, šta god vam padne na pamet. Mi smo bojile voštanim bojicama i to je prilično dugo trajalo, tako da smo crtež završile iz dva puta. Ukrašavanje je bilo najzanimljiviji deo - Ema sad uživa u crtanju cvetova, leptirića i pčelica, pa tako imamo i prolećnu haljinu.

It is very simple - put a large sheet of paper on the floor, get the child to lie on top of it, posing how he/she wishes, draw a line around the body and let your imagination run wild. You can "dress" the drawing any way you like (make a pirate, a fairy, an astronaut, etc.), you can colour the clothes using crayons or decorate it by using scrap fabric, other types of paper, all kinds of embelishments, what ever you can think of. We used crayons and it took a while, so we finished the drawing in two afternoons. Ema likes drawing flowers, butterflies and honeybees now, so the dress had a "spring time" theme.

 

 

Snovi o moru - Dreaming about the sea

Već dugo vremena listam knjigu Doodle Stitching autorke Aimee Ray i maštam o tome kako da ostavim svoj život po strani i izvezem sve njene motive (a ima ih preko 400 i sve jedan lepši od drugog). Eh, kako to jako teško može da se izvede, svela sam svoje snove na motive mora. Imala sam jedan beli čaršaf za bebeći krevet, bez ikakvih ukrasa, pa sam odlučila malo da ga osvežim. Ovo je prvi put da prenosim motiv na platno, pa je to zahtevalo malo dodatnog truda i logistike. Ovako je to izgledalo u mojoj izvedbi, korak po korak.

 

Prvo sam izmerila gde želim da se motivi nalaze i grafitnom olovkom povukla liniju koja će prolaziti kroz sredinu motiva (slika 1). To je jako važno ako motive slažete jedan ispod drugog, kako vam ne bi otišli ukrivo.

 

Potom sam fotokopirane stranice knjige washi trakom zalepila na prozor i flomasterom podebljala linije na papiru (slika 2). Platno sam naslonila na prozor i vodoperivim flomasterima precrtavala motive (slika 3). Flomaster se posle oprao bez problema. Ako se bojite da boja neće izaći, probajte nešto da nacrtate na ivici platna pa operite.

 

I evo i krajnjeg rezultata (slika 4).

 

Uzgred, knjiga je odlična ako ste početnik u vezu, ali i ako ste naprednija vezilja. Sadrži detaljna uputstva o koncima, iglama, platnima, kako preneti uzorak na platno, vrstama bodova, opšivanju ivica, itd. Sadrži i disk sa svim motivima koji se nalaze u knjizi, a koji su prelepi i prikladni za različite prilike. Hvala bensedinart na pozajmici :)

 

 

I've been browsing through the book Doodle Stitching by Aimee Ray for a while now, wondering how to put my life on hold and embroider each and every motif she gives (there are 400+ motifs, each cuter than the previous one). Since that is highly unlikely to happen any time soon, I scaled my dreams down to the seaside motifs. I had a plain white bedsheet for a crib, so I set off to give it some spark. I have never transfered a motif to a fabric before, so I needed to put in some extra effort and planning. This is what it looked like, step by step.

 

First I measured where I wanted my motifs to be and used a pencil to draw a line that would pass through the middle of the motifs (picture 1). This step is very important if you want your motifs to be in a straight line.

 

Then I put up the photocopied pages of the book to the window (used some washi tape) and made the lines thicker with a black marker (picture 2). I put the fabric over the page and copied the motifs using washable markers (picture 3). The marker came out without any problems. If you are sceptic about it (as I was), try out the marker on a corner of the fabric and give it a wash before starting the project.

And in picture 4 you can see the final result.

 

The book is simply amazing. It is great for a beginner, but also for more advanced crafters. It contains detailed instructions on needles, threads, fabrics, stitches, ways to transfer a motif onto a fabric, etc. It also has a CD with all the motifs printed in the book, and they are amazingly cute and appopriate for so many uses.

 

Papirna rođendanska torta - Paper birthday cake

Približava se Emin peti rođendan, pa ćemo ga proslaviti i u vrtiću. Kako nije dozvoljeno nositi pravu tortu, roditelji obično prave papirne i napune odgovarajućim slatkišima. Prošle godine smo slatkiše složile u jednu lepu ukrasnu kutiju, ali Ema je ove godine želela da ima baš tortu. Pošto je njen rođendan vrlo blizu Uskrsa i uglavnom smo u velikoj gužvi oko svega u ovo doba godine, nisam imala vremena da napravim one klasične parčiće torte koji se poslože u krug i čine tortu. Pronašla sam ovo rešenje - kutija u obliku rođendanske torte sa svećicama. A što je najbolje, možete je napraviti za sat vremena (isprobano, i to u noćnoj smeni - danju bi sigurno bilo i brže). Sad još samo da je napunimo i sutra je nosimo u vrtić!

 

Link do detaljnijeg uputstva je ovde. Torticu možete napraviti i tako da bude manja, pa u nju staviti nečiji rođendanski poklon ;)

 

Ema's fifth birtday is coming up and she is celebrating it at kindergarten, too. Our kindergarten does not allow parents to send real cakes (due to the fear of allergies), so we usually make do with paper ones, filled with the approved types of candy. We put the candy in a decorative box last year, but this year Ema wanted a real cake. Since her birthday is very near Easter and we are mostly crazy busy this time of year, I didn't have time to make those paper cake pieces that form a birthday cake. I found this much simpler solution - it is a decorative box in a shape of a cake and with candles on top. And the best thing is that it takes about an hour to make (it took me that long during the night, in daytime it probably gets done faster). All that is left is to fill it with candy and take it to the kindergarten tomorrow morning!

 

 You can find the link to the instructions here. You can make the box smaller and put somebody's birthday present in it ;)