Ravina Sewani

Things you will need:Water colours, water, brushes, white crayon, chart paper, water colour tray. How to:Make sure that all the steps are carried out by your children. You can keep an eye on them for protection.<ol><li>On a white chart paper, write/draw with the white crayon.</li><li>Place different coloured drops in water colour tray.</li><li>Dip a paint brush first in colour and then in water.&nbsp;</li><li>Paint on the chart paper and observe the words/drawing come alive.</li></ol> Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity can be very exciting because you can ask them to find out hidden message. They learn the difference between the textures and results of different colour mediums.

Resist Painting

Things you will need:Black clay (a lot of it), rolling pin, glowing star stickers. How to:Make sure that all the steps are carried out by your children. You can keep an eye on them and help them with risky steps for protection.<ol><li>Roll the clay into a flat circular or any shape.</li><li>Kids can randomly lay out the star stickers on this rolled out clay.</li><li>Alternatively, you can show them pictures of constellations and they can lay out the star stickers in the shape of the constellations.</li><li>If you repeat this activity some other time, you can make it more fun by displaying planets.</li></ol> Happy Gaming!

Significance:The child gets an idea about stars, planets and constellations. It also enhances their motor skills while handling the play dough.

Space Play dough

Things you will need: shaving cream, glue, ziplock bag, food colouring, white cardboard, pencil, eraser How to:<ul><li>Mix equal parts of shaving cream and glue into a ziplock bag and add your desired food colouring.</li><li>Seal the bag and squish the bag together until all ingredients are mixed together.</li><li>On a rigid material like white cardboard, ask your child to draw the layout of their art.</li><li>Once the foam is ready, cut off a corner at the bottom of the bag and ask your child to pour the foam on their art layout like piping icing.</li><li>Once the art has been completed, set it aside so the foam can dry and solidify overnight.</li></ul> Happy Painting!

Significance:This activity will enhance your child's motor and creativity skills.

DIY Foam Painting

Things you will need: drawing papers, pencils, erasers, and crayonsHow to:Gather a group of 8-10 kids. Team them up in pairs. Provide them with the activity essentials. Give them around 20-30 minutes to draw anything they want and 10 minutes to colour their drawings. You can also carry out this activity between siblings or just 2 children.Call all the pairs one by one to the centre and ask them to exchange their drawings. Each child of the pair has to list out all the things (s)he liked about the other’s drawing. The other kid of the pair has to do the same. All the pairs should do this exercise after finishing their drawings. Lesson from this activity:At the end of this activity, explain to the children that it is always important to see the good in every person in their life. No matter the situations or circumstances or how hard it gets, if we look deep enough, good can always be found inside every person. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will help your child to develop respect others and see the good in them.

What I like about your picture?

How to:Play doughs are very much like clay but they are safer for kids to use. Give them different coloured play doughs (available in the market easily) and observe your child creating wonders. You can sit with your kids and teach them create different things.A temporary solution can be using the flour available at home and kneading it with water. You can add a bit of food colouring to make it attractive for children. Happy Gaming!

Significance:It will enhance your child’s imaginative and motor skills.

Play dough

How to:This is an exciting activity. Before leaving home for a daily chore or grocery shopping or visiting a park/museum with your child, instruct your child that they have to observe carefully the things they see along the way. When you reach home, sit with them with a piece of paper, pencil, eraser, and crayons. Ask them to recall whatever they saw along the trip with you and map them out (draw) on the paper. There are 2 benefits of doing this activity. One, when you go out of your home for shopping or a daily chore along with your child, you will not have to worry about him/her nagging you the entire time.&nbsp;Two, it will improve your child’s observational skills. Fun fact:You can do the same. It will help you understand how much attentive are you to everything. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will enhance your child’s memory. It will also instil creativity in their life.

Map it

Things you will need: moulds (ice cream or Popsicle or egg moulds with holes), water, food colouring or water colour, Popsicle sticks, white thin cardboard How to:Make sure that all the steps are carried out by your children. You can keep an eye on them for protection. <ol><li>The night before you plan to do this activity, fill a Popsicle mould or an ice cube tray with water and place the Popsicle sticks in place.</li><li>Add a couple of drops of different watercolour to each section of the mould or tray. Remember the more colour you add, the more vibrant and intense your ice paintings will be. Add at least 2 drops of colour to each section of your ice mould.</li><li>Freeze the ice-cube or Popsicle mould tray overnight.</li><li>Run your frozen trays under a cold tap, or set them in the sunshine for a brief minute.&nbsp;This will be enough to loosen your paint pops and will slide out easily.</li><li>Take a large piece of white cardboard as the canvas on which your child(ren) can paint on together.</li></ol> Note: You can use this activity as a fun way for kids to practice writing numbers or letters, or to practice writing their names.

Significance:This activity will improve your child's motor skills and introduces an interesting way of painting.

Coloured ice painting

Things you will need:2 parts of corn flour and 1 part of water, food colouring, container, toys. How to:Make sure that all the steps are carried out by your children. You can keep an eye on them and help them with risky steps for protection.1. Take a container (the size will depend on the amount of ingredients which you take).2. Add corn flour and water in this container in the ratio of 2:1 (2 parts of corn flour and 1 part of water).3. First add the corn flour and then slowly add the water with constant stirring.Note: You can change the goop consistency as you want. If you want a harder consistency, add more corn flour and if you want a smooth running consistency, add more water.4. To make it attractive, you can also add food colouring or water colour in the mixture and a few toys, small containers and spoons. Happy Gaming!

Significance:This activity will enhance your child’s sensory skills and motor skills.

Goop Making

Things you will need:Water, cooking oil, blue food colouring, 2 litre transparent bottles, funnel. How to:Make sure that all the steps are carried out by your children. You can keep an eye on them for protection.<ol><li>Fill about half of your bottle with water using the funnel.</li><li>Now, add several drops of blue food colouring. If you are using liquid colouring, you can directly add 3-4 drops. If you are using powdered food colouring, mix the powder with a small amount of water. Now add these coloured drops to the jar.</li><li>Shake the bottle properly so that the food colouring mixes well.</li><li>Next, using the funnel, add vegetable oil in the bottle but leave a few inches at the top. Close the lid of the bottle.</li><li>Turn the bottle over slowly fro 2-3 times and observe what happens!</li><li>You can make this activity more interesting by adding a few shells, water animal toys, glitter colour. You can also mix blue and green food colouring to produce a more ocean-like colour in the bottle.</li></ol> Happy Gaming!

Significance:The activity will greatly enhance your child’s motor skills and help them learn about ocean and its life in a fun way. It also teaches about different densities of oil and water.

creativity development activities

Activities are an interesting way to teach important life skills to children. Here are a few suggestions for you.