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  • Simple and easy to make craft of Monarch Butterfly life cycle!!! Paper Plate craft!!!

    monarch butterfly life cycle

    Buttflies looks so pretty and colors of them attracts to catch and feel in our hands.

    Making of Monarch butterfly life cycle is a very interesting and fun activity to do kids at home while homeschooling or in holidays. I had done it with mine too and it was sure was great fun to make and also many interesting and new things enclosed to me while searching and working on it. And also a live video how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly was great admiration for creations of Allah Almighty. My children always take much interest in bugs bees, flying insects as well crawlingAlhamdo Lilah living close to nature they also got opportunities to observe insects and their curious minds blows with every single new thing they observe. And also two years of early education in school, their teacher also did a lot of work on facts of nature and things around. And one day when school tripe was happened to go to the natural history museum in Greece, a big collection of colorful butterflies and all-natural world inspired me and my kids to do something about that. And then we started to find facts, learned biological facts and made this simple and easy monarch butterfly life cycle.


    Monarch Butterfly life cycle

    The life cycle of a butterfly starts from laying the egg. It goes through four stages

    1. Eggs

    2. caterpillar

    3. chrysalis 

    4. Butterfly

    A butterfly lays eggs on the leaf and then after some days a caterpillar comes out of an egg…. and after some days when it grows a little more,  it turns into a chrysalis and lastly, it becomes a butterfly.


    Things we need to make a paper plate life cycle

    1.    A disposable Plate

    2.    2 Pipe design Macronies. 1 shell             macrony, 
          Three beans to make eggs
    3.    Paper to make the butterfly
    4.    paper or plastic to make leaves.
    5.    finger colors 
    6.    UHU


    Start to make

    1. Color three beans with white paint.

    2. Color pipe macrony in circles with three or four colors to make a colorful caterpillar.

    3.color shell macrony brown, pink or whatever you like to make a chrysalis.

    4. Draw a butterfly color it with different.
    colors and past it on a pipe macrony.

     5. Make leaves of green paper or plastic.

    Divide plate into 4 parts. First, decorate sides of the plate with different colors 
     Paste leaves in one part of the plate. Then make a little brown branch to past chrysalis.
    then step by step paste all the stages on the plate.
    1. Eggs on the leaf.  
    2. Caterpillar in the second part.
    3. Chrysalis in the third part right at the painted branch.
    4. Butterfly in the forth part of the plate. make arrows with a black color to show cycle.


    Try this out with your young minds. Going through nature and find ideas to make things after searching facts behind help much to increase curiosity in bright minds. Try this out and drop your experience here. If you also used to make crafts about the fact of animals share with us. Thanks for your interest drop your email to get updates.
     By Adiba Anwar

     To find out more crafts please visit crafts section.
    You might also like my other articles about educational activities.

    1. The life cycle of a bird
    2. Birds mentioned in Quran
    3. A birds nest with eggs

  • Very easy and simple Summer Crafts made with Plastic bottles and ice-cream lids craft. A kitchen corner decoration craft

    A Best kitchen corner decor made with plastic bottles and ice cream containers cover.

    Summer crafts

    summer crafts



    Things we need to make.

    1.  Three sprites (Green)plastic bottles.
    2.  One vegetable oil bottle to make a vase.
    3. Ice cream containers cover in different colors.
    4.  UHU.
    5.  Scissor.

    How to make?

    Take any shape of vegetable oil bottle… Remove its tag rapper…… Wash it neatly with warm water and leave to be wet… Later cut it into half….. Make sure there is no oil or grease left.


    Take a bottle of sprite definitely in green color.

    summer carfts Remove its top and start to cut it from top to down two inch high from bottom in fine slices. Then do the same thing with all of three.

    summer crafts
    Take ice cream containers tops in different colors and remove their sides.

    summer crafts
    Make some flowers from them and some of them stick in long leaf shape.


    summer crafts


    In the bottle vase adjust first green plant then seconds and third inside each other.. And in the third one put some stones or any weight to keep the balance… Then stick plastic flowers 💐 💐 in some plastic grass slice and some on the leaf stick…


    summer crafts
    Vase could be painted or decorated with plastics covers.

    Best places… shelves, oven,  Window, corners, side racks,



    Try it with your little ones at home… Supper for motor skills…and creativity….. And also best to teach them how to reuse the plastic and unwanted things…  

     Thanks. 

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    ADIBA ANWAR

  • Life cycle of a bird |Crafts/art | Birds/animals mentioned in Quraan series | Facts of Birds in Quran with stories

    The most interesting method of teaching kids about animals and their facts. 

       In this article, we will cover 


    1.Birds mentioned in Quran

    2. Stages and process of egg to bird 

    3.Craft

    4.I info About Birds

                             1.Birds mentioned in Quran


    Bird (طائر) is one of the creations of Allah mentioned by name in the Quran.
    Αποτέλεσμα εικόνας για bird ayat in quran
    Sahih International: Do they not see the birds above them with wings outspread and [sometimes] folded in? None holds them [aloft] except the Most Merciful. Indeed He is, of all things, Seeing.

     Here is the name of animals mentions in Quran
    1. Crow          کوا
    2. Quail        سلوی
    3.Birds             طائر
    4.. swallow          ابابیل

     5.  Hoopoe          ہدہد

      


                            2.   Stages

       1. Pair of birds, Lying of eggs
            When a female bird lays three or more eggs. 
        

    2. Egg Hatching
            A hatchling is a bird that’s no more than a few days. They’re typically naked with closed eyes
       

    3. Nestling
                  A nestling is usually covered in down. It’s completely dependent on its parents for food and does not leave the nest.
       

     4. Fledgling
                 When the baby bird is ready to leave the nest, it becomes a fledgling. 


                             3. Craft
          
     At this stage, we will make a craft for kids.
    it may be(Options) 
    1.  birds nest with eggs.
    2. birds
    3. baby birds
    or
    4. colorful eggs
       We had made this crafts with kids things used in it

     1.dry grass. 
    2. a little cup for setting grass as nest
    3.ice cream sticks for back ground
    4.card board paper for making leaves
    5.some colored balls(play dough) as eggs
    6. colorful play dough for outside decoration
    7. UHU 

        


                                    4.Info about Birds

    In this step, we will share info with kids.
    1. Watch some videos with them
    2.tell them stories
    3. ask them about their favorite bird
    Share info with them
                Birds are Flying creature. They have two wings and two foot.
    They can fly from miles. We can see them all over the world in different colors and voices.  Birds like to eat seeds, insects fruits, and some of them also eat fish.
      Birds sing spring songs.
    They could be kept as pets. And Parrot could also speak some words of our languages.

           Activities

         1. Draw and color the birds(animals) mentioned in Quran
         2. Try to learn verses of Quran about birds
         The story of elephants or surah Feel could be told and learn .Story
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      Adiba Anwar
       

  • How to be kind with animals| A story for children | Printable pdf

                                  My Pet           

      A Lovely Ladybug 

                Yeah It’s spring. 
    Many beautiful flowers, bugs, bees, Butterflies,
      
    Colors and sweet smell is everywhere. 
    Ohhh what a beautiful lady bug. 
    I want to keep it with me all day long.  
    I and my brother caught that ladybug and keep it in the Jar. 
    She was trying, again and again, to climb out of jaar till afternoon. 
     Ahh!   It’s evening now and she looks a little sad. 
    She was no more climbing and looking happy with us. 
    We noticed she had eaten nothing from morning. 
    Them mom told us, this is why she too likes flowers. 
    She wants to fly around and around and sing the spring songs. 
    She must be missing her friends and home. 
    Then We took the jaar out and free him in the garden. 
    She flew away and lost in the flowers. 
    At night I dream that I and my brother are flying in the air.  
    And My lovely ladybug was singing songs and enjoying with us. 
     by (Adiba Anwar)
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