Tag: A to Z Challenge 2016

Zoo Visits With Kids Tips and Tricks

Zoo Visits With Kids Tips and Tricks

(This article “Zoo Visits With Kids Tips and Tricks” is a reblog and was written especially for Kelloggs Chocos and MyCity4Kids.com. You can read the article at its original source at my parenting blog at MyCity4Kids.com here.) 6 months after my daughter was born, we 

YellowMellowLife Summer Recap

YellowMellowLife Summer Recap

This year I decided to participate in the interesting A to Z Challenge. The challenge required me to blog every single day in April (except Sundays) upon something that starts with the corresponding letter for the day. I started with a great start, got sluggish 

Xigua Print For Recycling Folding Wooden Hand Fan

Xigua Print For Recycling Folding Wooden Hand Fan

Recycling folding wooden hand fan was another long due project for me. Little B has a beautiful wooden fan with intricate carving. The fan has been with her for the last few years and so it has stopped appealing to her. I was thinking of 

Wat Pho Photo Travelogue

Wat Pho Photo Travelogue

Last year, we visited Thailand. I was mesmerized by the temples in Bangkok. Especially Wat Pho, popularly known as The Temple of The Reclining Buddha. Visiting it was an experience in itself. Never had I seen something like this before! Here are some of the 

Vincent van Gogh – Painting The Starry Night Over Canvas Shoes

Vincent van Gogh – Painting The Starry Night Over Canvas Shoes

It started from an article that I read in the Parents magazine that emphasized the importance of exposing children to a variety of fine arts. The article inspired me to do The Eric Carle Tissue Paper Art Project with my daughter, Little B. Last month, 

Universe and My Place in It – Kindergarten Geography Activity

Universe and My Place in It – Kindergarten Geography Activity

Little B often gets confused as to what her city is and what her country is. Her confusion is not with the names, but with how these geographical entities are related to each other. For example, she would often wonder if India is in Karnataka 

No Girls Allowed Review – The Berenstain Bears series

No Girls Allowed Review – The Berenstain Bears series

I don’t know if we are raising Little B in a different way or if nature made her this way, but yeah, she is different. Or maybe it is just one of those things that every parent in the world feels about their child. Maybe 

Ice Chalk and That Too the One That Sizzles

Ice Chalk and That Too the One That Sizzles

My daughter had her eyes on this sizzling ice chalk activity for a really long time now. However, I kept holding off the plan on one pretext or another. With the temperature in the ever pleasant Bangalore crossing 30 degrees Celsius already, it was time 

Gender-Neutral Monopoly

Gender-Neutral Monopoly

I have done my graduation in Elementary Education. I was part of this amazing course at Delhi University – Bachelors of Elementary Education – that changed me forever. To call it a course would be wrong; it was in fact, a movement. The course was 

Coconut Ice cream – Bangkok Street Food Inspired

Coconut Ice cream – Bangkok Street Food Inspired

Bangkok is a hot place. We traveled there in November expecting it to be pleasant. We were a little disappointed. The city was not like-an-oven-kind-of hot but it was not pleasant either. It was warm and humid. To top it up, we were trying to