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The sound of fanfare should be heard now! We are announcing the winners of the children’s land art contest-festival organized by “Parents’ Ideas”.
ABSOLUTELY ALLTHE PARTICIPANTS HAVE BECOME WINNERS OF THE CONTEST-FESTIVAL ,
as there cannot be better and worse, shouldn’t be judges and critics when speaking about art and creativity.
That is why ALL THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE LAND ART FESTIVAL GET THE PRIZES! !
During May-June we got the photos of the art works from more than 30 boys and girls from different countries: Russia, Argentina, Ukraine, Israel, France, Belorus.
And today the following prize is sent to these boys and girls Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, frame, gifts, handmade, homemade, kids, land-art, presents
The promised story about our stay in the City of Voronezh, or the meeting of the children’s art-group in new membership
July 12, 2010, Monday
In Place of Introduction
When returning from the south of Russia to our native city, we stopped in Voronezh at our friends’ place for a day (after 13 hours of driving). The main reason for making a one-day break from driving was the conduction of a children’s art-group! 
Having read in “Parents’ Ideas” about our art-meetings for kids, our mummy-friends from Voronezh asked us to visit them and give a “guest performance”
We decided to organize the meetings in the apartment of its youngest participant – 11-month-old Lika. By 10:30 we brought Soniya (2,2 yr.), Andrew (1,7 yr) and Karim (1,7 yr) there. I tried not to think of how everything would go – to conduct an art-meeting in a company of such little ones – that was quite new for me. Before our daughter Soniya had been the youngest at such meetings; she copied the elder kids and we were at home (there were no unknown distracting things there). How everything would go that day – let’s see in practice .
The children if not greeted each other happily, then, at least, felt comfortable in the company of each other. Lika was shining with smiles, Soniya immediately figured out where the greatest number of toys was, Andrew and Karim did not fall behind in their investigations, either.
Kids’ Creativity
We started with the meditation part – without balance within it is difficult to do any creative work, especially with such little toddlers. Only Karim behaved ideally – he was sitting on his mother’s lap quietly and with attention watching everything. Actually, we hadn’t expected that the children would sit absolutely quietly. As for me, I was happy that Soniya was participating in all the suggested meditation activities. And what of it that between them she found time to get into the playpen with toys turned onto its side?!
The aim is reached – everybody has got joyful state! We are moving to the second part!… Hm-m-m, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, clothes, Creative Work, design, early-childhood development, ideas, kids, painting with children, presents
April has finished and the Contest “The Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds “ has finished together with it. Different hummingbirds flew to us during this month: the birds made of plasticine and wooden blocks, cut out of paper and cloth, painted with watercolours and crayons… We thank all the participants of the Contest for their enthusiasm, ideas and joy our readers and we got looking through the art works:
Our participants
1. Irina Kovtun (8 yrs, Ukraine);
2. Nirmala Kovaleva (27 mo, Russia);
3. Sasha Antonov (3 yrs 9 mo, Russia);
4. Alon (4 yrs, Israel);
5. Anastasia Tsebrenko (2 yrs 3 mo);
6. Maria Karpova (14 yrs, Russia)
7. Masha Andreeva (3 yrs);
8. Maxim (Israel);
9. Olya Reutova (4 yrs, Ukraine);
10. Nadya, Niona’s daughter;
11. Ulya (3 yrs 5 mo)Anastasiya Solnechnaya’s daughter;
12. Renata Sidorova;
13. Natvei Vorobiev (3 yrs);
14. Ira, Matvei’s cousin (5 yrs);
15. Tanya, Matvei’s cousin (9 yrs);
16. Katalina(8 yrs, Argentina);
17. Ilya (2 yrs, Argentina);
18. Niranjan (8 yrs, Argentina);
19. Martina (12 yrs, Argentina);
20. Ines (13 yrs, Argentina);
21. Kandela (9 yrs, Argentina);
22. Enzo (6 yrs, Argentina);
23. Pavlik Andreev (33 mo)
24. Nika, Nadya’s sister
25. Miroslava
The numbers of the participants reflect the order in which the works came to the Contest.
Some more hummingbirds we’ve got but haven’t published yet:
Miroslava’s hummingbird made of pieces of cloth Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, Competitions, crafts, Creative Work, ideas, kids, presents, prizes
So, what honourable mention prizes are waiting for the participants of the Contest “The Month of Rainbow Humingbirds”? Ekaterina has guessed right: stickers the hummingbirds on which (from the nest to the flights) are drawn by the authors of “Parents’ Ideas”. Here you can read more about the main prizes.
One more image from the gift set of stickers:
Paintings and crafts are still coming and today we are introducing you five more participants of the Contest: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, drawing with kids, early-childhood development, ideas, kids, painting with children, presents
The First Participants
Spring is blossoming and our Contest “A Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds” is gaining strength, too. And here are the first participants! They are Irina Kovtun (8 yr.) and her mother Natalya Kovtun from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. Irina painted this hummingbird which is really rainbow and happy :
This bird is waiting for her friends! All the art&craft works participanting in the Contest will be published in our gallery (with the links to the blogs of the parents of their creators, if there are any). We are sure that everything which is handmade and homemade, be it paintings or crafts, is carrying joy and encouragement!
About half a month is left until the results of the Contest are announced. We are looking forward to new participants!
Prizes
And now, as we’ve promised, the prizes themselves! The three main prizes from the Parents’ Ideas Little Store Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, crafts, Creative Work, DIY, do-it-yourself, ideas, presents
April is a Month of Rainbow Hummingbirds. And we are announcing a Creativity Contest! We invite all the children, their parents and friends (participants and guests of the Parents’ Ideas blog ) to create his/her own, unique, hummingbird with pencils, paints, crayons, from colour construction paper, cloth, clay, etc… All the arts and crafts created by kids (with the help of adults, if necessary) are accepted. The only condition is that there should be a hummingbird in the work.
At the end of April there will be chosen 3 winners – through a drawing And we have also prepared gifts for all the participants! Which ones? It is a surprise so far (check the info about the contest in our blog). We are sure that everything that Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, Creative Work, DIY, do-it-yourself, early-childhood development, ideas, kids, presents
We are starting a new Project in our blog:
Very Creative Person.
Interview and tutorials with creative people
And today we are inviting you to meet Nadezhda, a mother of two sons, Silvestr (3,5) and Makar (2). Actually, you already know Nadezhda as some time ago she told us how to make design paper in home environment. And today she’ll tell us how to make beautiful and healthy soap both for children and parents, such soap that is a little work of art. It can be a great homemade gift!
Nadezhda with her elder son Silvestr
Parents’ Ideas: Nadya, could you, please, tell us how you learnt that it is possible to make soap in home environment?
Nadezhda: I learnt about such soap by chance – saw it in the Internet. My sister presented me with a woolen set for children and when I was looking for the material about wool there was soap among the other woolen abundance. Very artistic and it attracted me immediately. There was soap rolled in wool and soap which was just soap.
Soap “A Tasty Thing”
P.I.: How did the idea to make soap occur to you? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: birthday, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, holidays, home, ideas, parents, presents, St. Valentine's Day, Women's Day
While we were making cards in the network of our project “Homemade Cards and Gifts”, our readers were sharing their tips and ideas with us. For example, reading about this card Nadezhda told us how to make design paper in home environment.
Homemade Design Paper
Tags: cards, children, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, early-childhood development, holidays, ideas, kids, presents, tips
The International Women’s Day, March 8, has passed but the desire to create is still here!
Our project “Homemade Cards and Gifts – Interesting Ideas Every Day!” would not be complete if we did not share one more type of cards with you (which will finish our project). Such a card is both a card and a gift!
Homemade Embroidered Cards
Such a card will remind the person who you presented it with about it for a long time: thanks to its format, it is also a bookmark.
The materials which have been used: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: birthday, cards, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, holidays, ideas, presents, St. Valentine's Day, Women's Day
Today is March 8 – the International Women’s Day in Russia and in many other countries. It is a holiday of the sun, joy, femininity, coziness, warmness and beauty. And we wish all of you, dear ladies, adult and young, a spring sun within and around!
What can the card made on March 8 look like? Of course, it should be cheerful! Shining! And quick in preparation! And it is much desirable that the card should be made from such things which can be found not leaving home.
Homemade Cards Made of the Materials Found at One’s Fingertips
Our daughter and I made this camomile from a muffin cup and bay leaves (in Russia they are used for cooking soup). The background is yellow velvet paper.
You can Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: birthday, cards, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, holidays, ideas, presents, Women's Day
