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Come summer, come vacations. Children are relatively free during this holiday season.

Teach your child some vegetable stamps:
eg.Potato Stamp

Take a big potato. Cut it into two halves and draw (with a ball pen) any design (e.g. a star, triangle, an alphabet or your name) on the cut surface. Cut off the unused portions very carefully with the help of a knife to retain only the desired shape. The carved end of the potato will show a colourful pattern when you dip it in the paint and stamp it on a paper.

You can also make ladyfinger, capsicum and other vegetable stamps.

Share with us some of your creative designs of vegetable stamps! Kalpana replied. HI,
my son is 6 yrs old. right from the age of 2 i have involved him many activites. Here are some of them.
First of all give him a diary for himself. Make him write the date as and when he does an activity.

1. I used to give him topics like house, tree, animals etc. He will have to draw and color 5 types of the topic given. This way he tries to remember and relate what he has seen or learnt.
2. Ask him to write a story. Help him with spellings, by splitting and pronouncing the word.
3. Ask him to think of his favourite story, draw the characters and color them, cut them and stick in a chart paper. Make him write the story name.

4. Ask him to make crossword puzzles with clues and we parents have to play it.

Last but not least, encourage them and make them feel proud and happy for what they have done.
kalps