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Teaching Toddlers to Imitate Animal Sounds
Usher your kid into the intriguing world of inflection and letter sounds via animal sounds. Teaching a 17-month-old child to imitate animal sounds will pave the way for more distinct and faster talking. Here, play is the right way to teach something new; go for it!
Regardless of whether your toddler loves to play the goat or act like a monkey, he may not know the sound that goes with various animals. Imitating animal sounds, along with being a lot of fun, helps your child reach speech development milestones faster. Get set to introduce your tot to the world of a 'roar' and a 'moo' with these adorable ideas.
Tips to Teach Animal Sounds to Toddlers
1. Get Hold of Animal Sound Apps
Like it or not, babies loves electronic gadgets right from their birth. Load your tablet or smartphone with animal sound games for toddlers and see her shriek in delight when she hears the 'pink' elephant trumpet or her fluffy cat give out a meow! In most cases, these apps have brightly coloured animal pictures that emit their natural sounds when touched. What’s more? These apps are ideal for your tot to be educationally involved when you want to rest or have some “me-time.”
2. Act Like Your Kid’s Favourite Animal
Replicating animals and their sounds for toddlers, in their own environment, would make them interested in knowing if a rat, lion, or pig is close at hand. Modulate your voice, get on your fours, or simply add a tail to your skirt as you go about it all. You may also like to invest in plastic toy animals that will help them see their form when you are giving out a bark, grunt or growl!
3. Grab A Book with Animal Sounds
There are some classic books that focus on animal sounds for toddlers to learn. Think of "The Very Busy Spider” by Eric Carle or “Mommies Say 'Shh!'" by "Patricia Polacco.” Reading with toddlers helps them visualise as they listen to you imitating their favourite animal sounds; you will love the activity too!
4. Singing Songs that Incorporate Animals
Singing along is one of the best ways of teaching a 17-month-old child to imitate animal sounds. How about crooning "Old McDonald Had a Farm”? It will draw plenty of jigs. Then, there is "Animal Fair" or "Baa, Baa Black Sheep” too. Alternatively, you can make up something on your own.
5. Seek Answers in The Form of Animal Sounds
In between these activities, you may like to pretend that you've forgotten a certain animal sound or end up making the wrong one. For instance, saying that a cat “moos” instead of “meows” in a matter of fact way will draw many giggles. You will be pleasantly surprised to hear all that your little one knows when she proceeds to educate you!
Teaching toddlers how to imitate animal sounds is all about reaching another development milestone in a fun way. Just put on a funny face and give your voice the right grunt or yelp. Read more
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8 Fun Fruit And Vegetables Crafts Ideas for Kids
As parents, we all want our kids to eat healthily, to stay active and fit! But is it always possible? In today’s ultra-modern lifestyle, kids often tend to snack upon junk food as it’s readily available everywhere. But when it comes to nutrition, they often throw tantrums to avoid fresh greens and veggies which are not as tasty as other processed alternatives. So, as parents, it’s time to try a different approach and make your kids understand the importance of healthy vegetables and fruits with these fun ideas.
Fruits And Vegetables Craft Ideas for Children
Kids love to indulge in fun and creative projects, especially something that involves colours and paints. So just get them to join you in the following interesting vegetable and fruit art activities which you all can try out as a team:
1. Veggies Fabric Painting Art
Your kids will simply fall in love with this fun-filled veggie fabric painting craft idea.
Materials Required
Any fabric, you can use an apron or a kitchen towel which you use to cover your appliances.
Potato
Brussel sprouts
Fabric paint
How to Make
Cut the potato into halves and make a triangle or any shape stencil on it using a knife.
Next, help your kids slice the Brussel sprouts into half.
Neatly arrange the fabric on a table top and secure it with weights on the corner.
Help your kid pour some fabric paint onto the palette, do not mix water as it can cause blotting.
Help your kid dip the veggies into the colours, each at a time and stamp on the fabric.
Mix in more vibrant colours and make distinct shapes on the fabric. Allow it to dry, and then you can use it!
2. Fruits and Veggies Skewer Craft
This fruit skewer craft is an interesting edible fruit art for kids!
Materials Required
Skewers
Strawberry
Kiwi
Banana
Apple
Black grapes
Mangoes
How to Make
Slice all the fruits into bite-sized portions so that your kids can easily eat them.
Next, take the skewers and help your kids make a creative, colourful arrangement of the fruits like banana-kiwi-apple-mango-grapes-strawberry.
Repeat this procedure until all the skewers are ready and then eat them!
3. Veggies Canvas Painting
Kids love paints and colours! So what are you waiting for get the craft supplies and start!
Materials Required
Canvas
Acrylic colours
Potato
Carrot
Beans
Lady’s finger
Curry leaves
How to Make
Cut the potato and carrot into half and cut out a stencil using a knife. You can try out different shapes like star, circle, square, etc.
Help your kids pour the paints onto the palette.
Now help them make a painting using these veggies.
You can use the lady’s finger to make a flower and curry leaves to imprint some leaves.
Use the beans to make some little fruits in a tree and so on!
4. Decorative Fruits on Crackers
Kids tend to be more drawn towards colourful looking dishes! So here we have a nice colourful fruit art for kids.
Materials Required
Crackers or wafer baskets
Whipped cream
Apples
Strawberry
Pineapple
Pomegranate
Kiwi
Banana
How to Make
Chop all the fruits into small pieces and set aside
Help your kid set the crackers or wafer basket on the serving tray.
Ask your kid to put a dollop of cream on each of them.
Finally, help him decorate it with his favourite assortment of fruits and finish with pomegranate on top! And you’re done!
5. Bubble Wrap Painting
Bubble wraps are easily available at the craft stores or readily available in case you have recently shifted!
Materials Required
Bubble wrap sheet
Paper cards
Paint
Brush
How to Make
Cut out the shape of different fruits and veggies like apple, pineapple, tomato, carrot, etc. from the card paper.
Ask your kid to paint the bubble wrap with the colour you have selected for the veggies like red goes for apple, tomato, orange for carrot and yellow for pineapple.
Paint green on the leaves covering the pineapple, apple, tomato and carrot.
Next, help your kid place the cut-out card paper on the bubble wrap and press firmly to get the desired colour.
Repeat the process for all the cutouts.
6. Veggie Basket Craft
One of the best vegetable craft ideas for pre-schoolers is this veggie basket craft!
Materials Required
Paper plate
Plain white paper
Paint or chalk colours
Glue
How to Make
Cut out a semi-circle shape from the paper plate using a cutter so that it forms a basket with a handle on the top.
Take a plain white paper and cut out the shapes of veggies like brinjal, tomato, potato, capsicum, carrot etc.
Ask your kid to colour the paper plate with paint or chalk colours.
Next, let him colour the veggies.
Now, help him arrange and affix the veggies into the paper plate basket using a glue.
7. Potato Man Craft
Your kids will be delighted to create and meet this potato man!
Materials Required
One large potato
Capsicum
Cherry tomatoes
Cauliflower
Carrot
Toothpicks
How to Make
Cut out thick slices of capsicum in the shape of two ears.
Now, help your kid to attach two cherry tomato eyes using the toothpicks.
Next, ask him to attach the sliced carrot as a mouth.
Use the slices of capsicum to attach as two ears using the toothpick on either side of the potato.
Finally, attach a cauliflower floret on the top like a cap.
You can now bake the potato man and serve it with ketchup.
8. Finger Painting Thank You Card
There is no better way to say a thank you than with this handmade card!
Materials Required
White card paper
Paint
Sketch Pen
How to Make
Ask your kid to dip fingers into the paint and stamp onto the card.
You can make a bunch of grapes or a flower using his thumb.
Give a few final touches and write your thank you message!
We hope that you enjoy the above fun and easy craft ideas with your kids. Educate your kids more about the health benefits of fruits and vegetables and encourage them to eat more greens and veggies!
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Baby Hair Care Routine - Personal Experience, Tips, Advice, Herbal Treatment
Today I would like to share my baby hair care routine. I have a baby girl. We all know hair is an important part in our body. We need to take off our child hair after her birth because it contains impurities as well as pungent smells.In muslim community, we conduct a function for hair cutting. After clearing all hair from head immediately we need to apply mother's breastmilk so that hair scalp will be coolled after shaving. Further, I apply egg yolk to my babies scalp and massage four to five minutes every day as daily bath routine and wash it off. Its reccomented to use virgin cocount oil to our babies scalp because of its nutritional values. Every six month we need to clear off or trim our babies hair for healthy grow. I advice all mom to have rich protein foods in her diet so that through breast milk our babies get protein which helps to grow their hair. Include protien rich food in babies diet plan if your baby reached six months. Hereditary is also one of the reason in babies hair grow. If her grand parents who have long hair it will affect some sort to our babies genes. I never use any baby shampoo to my baby hair wash. I am using green gram powder and milk paste. It is also rich in protein so that babies as well as mother's hair will grow smoothly and fastly.
Be sure after washing we should dried off babies hair otherwise wet hair causes cold and other diseases. After bath I put Rasnadhi choornam in my babies top of the head to avoid cold. Rasnadhi choornam is a herbal powder which we can bought from all ayurvedic shops. Never comb our babies hair using comb It will be harm for our babies. I use my hands to groom my baby hair, why because babies scalp is so soft as eggs.Keep seperate towel for wiping head of babies. Avoid pillows for babies for smooth blood circulation to head which helps to grow hair healthy. You can add further tips in hair care for babies in below comments. Next time I will come with another blog (1). Hope you all follow my tips and guidelines. Any doubts feel free to ask.
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Fruit & Nut Bars
The Fruit & Nut bars are ideal after school snacks. Unlike processed sweets, this bar packs in a lot of nutrition. Customize the bar according to your preference for fruits and nuts. Flavorful, hearty and just the right amount of sweetness - a perfectly healthy sweet snack!
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
2 People
10-15 Minutes
25-30 Minutes
Ingredients
20 g cashews
20 g almonds
20 g pistachios
20 g macadamia
20 g walnuts
20 g pitted prunes
20 g pitted cranberries
20 g seedless dates
20 g cherry, pitted
20 g figs, pitted
20 g raisins, pitted
20 g blueberry, pitted
20 g apricot, pitted
Method
Step 1
Combine the nuts and dried fruit in a food processor or blender
Step 2
Keep pausing in between to check the consistency of the mixture. The mixture should just be broken up and not churned completely
Step 3
Put the mixture into a thick glass bowl lined with butter paper and press into a firm layer.
Step 4
Chill for at least 3-5 hours
Step 5
Divide into bars
Step 6
Wrap each bar in plastic wrap or wax paper and store in the fridge
Nutritional Information
Calories
434 Kcal
Proteins
10.4 g
Fat
27.8 g
Carbohydrates
44.6 g
Cholesterol
0 mg
Sodium
5 mg
Potassium
671 mg
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Tips for a Successful Photo Shoot With Your Child
Photo shoots with babies can be fun, but they're equally tiresome when your baby is in a sour mood and refuses to smile or pose. The first and last time I scheduled a professional shoot for my baby was for her first birthday. Thankfully, our photographer was understanding, as we had to postpone the shoot due to her bad mood. When we had the final shoot, it was so exhausting for us that we never tried it again. this experience also taught us a lot of lessons, which I am going to share in this post, as they might be helpful for the brave parents who are planning a photo shoot for their kids.
Timing: This plays very important role. Never ever schedule a photo shoot at a time that clashes with your baby’s nap or meal time. Trust me, it’s a disaster if you do so.
Venue: Choose a place where your baby will be happy to pose. If its at home, keep some toys and fancy decorations around. A garden which swings is also a good idea. Children can get uncomfortable in a completely foreign area, especially when all the attention is focused on them. Keep some of her favourite things like toys or snacks around.
Dress: Choose a dress that is comfortable. If a child doesn’t like her attire, you won't even be able to get a single good click. If its an outdoor shoot, change her dress in a private area such as a room or car.
Food: Feed your child properly before the shoot. A hungry kid is a recipe for disaster, and you'll have to deal with tantrums.
Breaks: Take breaks at regular intervals. Give your child some time to hop around and enjoy herself in between the shoot.
Posing: Don’t force your child to pose. Just let her be herself, and trust me you will have amazing captures of all these natural moments, with a variety of emotions.
I hope these tips make the next photo shoot with your little one easier. Keep clicking!
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