Teacher's Day Card

I love everything about our Indian culture, its festivals, traditions and special days. The new generation gets to learn so many things. In the past few months, we celebrated so many festivals and special days. During this time my son learned a lot about our culture, tradition and history too. 

On 4th Sep they decorated their classroom to celebrate Teacher's day the next morning. He came home in an elated mood, he asked me " Maa do you know whose birthday is celebrated as Teacher's day before I gave the answer he told me it's Dr. Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli. I was so proud. Then he asked a lot of questions about him and we were discussing a lot of things about Teacher's day together. Then he said something that really touched my soul. He said, "do you know my teacher is a very good teacher but she is not the best because you are my best teacher. You know once you told me "Your first teacher is your mother" so you are my best teacher Mamma!!"

Yes, once I had told him that 'Mother is the first teacher' and he remembered. I hugged him and said thank you!!

He then told me that he wants to make the Teacher's day cards for his teachers and wants to sing some songs for them too. Lots of work for me!!

Well, an idea clicked in my mind at the right time and I decided to make a card that depicts the life of a teacher very well. I recalled a Doha from 'Kabir Dohawali' that goes like this:

                              Guru kumhar shishya kumbh hai, gadh gadh kadhe khot,

                              Antar haath sahar de, bahar bahe chot!!

And I was all set to give this doha a shape............

My little helper was there to help me throughout the process. He tried making coils. After some failed attempts finally, he did it.........

Here is the complete look at Teacher's day card...

Closer look...

Now that most of my time and energy I had put into making the first card the second card had to be a simpler one. The message was that 'Teacher nurtures student's life'...........

Then I asked Lakshya to write the message on the card. The first card's message was:

Teacher is a potter, student is a pot

Gives shape and cures the flaws with care,

Protecting from the palm inside,

while pounding the pot from outside!!

Here is the second card............

Time for some click-click..........

I liked how both the cards turned out. Hope his teachers will like them too.

When Lakshya was done with the cards, he prepared a song too. I enjoyed the time we did this activity together a lot. I must say a day well spent!!

And We Made Giant Bubbles.........!!!

While I was absent here.... a lot was happening in my world.

My son and I spent a lot of time doing different activities during his summer vacations and I wanted to post them all but kept procrastinating endlessly. Now that I have a lot to share let me start with this recent one. We made giant bubbles and believe me it was so much fun.
You can find the recipe for Giant Bubbles here

As we were doing this activity on our small balcony so I didn't make a bigger frame for making bubbles.

I would suggest you do this activity in an open, windy and big space like a garden. 

Here he blows giant bubbles.

As the day was not that windy so he blew most of the bubbles himself.

He was very happy to see the giant bubbles though those were not really giant. Next time I will make a bigger frame to double the joy that I saw on his face. He remained hooked doing this activity for a long time and I was busy capturing those memories and the priceless joy that we got doing this activity together. 

The pure joy of motherhood!!