A short note, sorry for disappearing!!!

Hello, Hello, Hello-))) I am glad to be here again...It seems I haven't written for ages...Yeah, lots of things have happened in our life since my last post. Sorry, that disappeared so silent, but it was quite hard time. Now I can tell you in short why I couldnt post so often...Well, first of all there was a big movement, to another place...now our family has a new home. There was of course a lot to do- to pack, to unpack, to settle down, etc. And the second thing which is the most important is....Karolina got her little sister - Nicole, who will be featured in the blog soon as well, I guess-)))

Anyway during this time I managed to make some photos and notes for myself to remember what kind of crafts or other activities we had done. And I am going to share it with you little by little...

Valentine's Day craft- Footprint heart

Today, on Holiday of Love, our papa is away from us and we miss him a loooooot. That is why we decided to make a present for him for Valentine's Day and tell him again HOW MUCH WE LOVE HIM!!!

This Footprint heart is a simple and very nice craft - suprise which both of us enjoyed a lot, especially Karolina.  Just I told her if she was interested to make a present for papa, she said immediately JA!!!

What we needed: 

1) red and white cardboard

2) decorations 

3) glue

4) scissors, red pencil

First, we drew her feet on red cardboard, and changed it a little bit into shape of heart at bottom. Then we glued it to the white cardboard.

After that the most exciting part with decorating started: stones in shape of heart,oval, square, glitter stickers - flowers.

At the end I took Karolina's hand and we wrote the words Papa, I love you! our little star found it funny and smiled during the whole process of writing.

              Papa, this heart is waiting for you at home. WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

P.S. this footprint you can also make with paints. And you can learn shapes with your toddler doing this activity: heart, circle, flower, square...

I hope you like our craft for Valentine's Day and I wish you all that your life is full of Love-)))

Weather craft - Umbrellas

Winter in Cyprus is quite rainy, and when you dream about snow you must go somewhere else to see it. Of course there are some places in mountains here but it is not that much of it. Today there was again rain. With thunderstorm. Karolina likes to listen to the sound of rain and sometimes she walks with umbreally around the house pretending that she is under the rain. At the beginning she was scared of the thunder but I can say that having lived here for a while, she already got used to it. I also tried to explain her that when the clouds meet each other they make this noise BOOM! Especially when clouds are huge, it can be rather strong. Now it is a kind of game for her as well to listen how "clouds meet".

Staying at home in this weather, the best thing is to make again something creative. So we made our own umbrellas with my little one.

For that we needed:
1) paper cupcakes cups
2) pipe cleaners (straws)
3) sticky band
4) glue
5) a sheet of paper

First of all I showed Karolina how to fold the cupcake cup to get the shape of umbrella.

Then we took a pipe cleaner and stuck it with a band.

After that  Karolina glued the cupcake cup inside that it cannot open. And she stuck umbrellas to the paper.

Finally Karolina drew some rain drops which changed into heavy rain-)))

"...on the west we have some showers! Please, don't forget your umbrellas today"

Hope tomorrow we will see sun again but sometimes rain can be also fun=)))

Wish you sunny weather. Thank you for reading-)))

P.S. Karolina was trying to sing today a song which I guess they were learning at the nursery and were singing it today too. Here is the link to youtube video RAIN-RAIN, Go AWAY!