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Bangalore Palace is a touch of history inside the city. You can plan a half day visit to this place when you are in Bangalore. Though the palace does not really match with the palace is that you usually see or expect in Rajasthan or other parts of India, it still has many artifacts to offer to your visual delight.                     Exterior of the palace in Tudor Architecture  Exterior of the palace in Tudor Architecture    Impressive Darbar Hall    Interesting Lamp   You can also catch up on some of the photograph of the royal family of the Wadiyar's. At the Palace you have to purchase entry ticket which also includes audio visual auto guide. It is good idea to get this guide because it explains almost all of the main important points inside the palace.  When we last visited during May 2017 the ticket price was around 240 rupees per person for Indian national. For m...

A day of yet another activity for kids..My LO have this hobby of collecting these pebbles where ever we go. So we decided to decorate them with paints and thus I can engage him for yet another 1-2 hours ;) Activity Level: Easy (Some adult help need for kids <=5 yrs) Supplies: Pebbles/stones preferably rounded ones, acrylic colors, paint brushes (0 number and flat), water/cloth to clean your brushes, waste newspapers to use as base for coloring No rocket science again..color your stones in vibrant color with flat brush. If required apply 2 coats. Once the base dries, decorate as per your choice. Here I am sharing some ideas.  You can also use poster colors or water colors if acrylic colors are not handy. But then you have to very careful not to get your decorated stones in contact of water! The one colored in blue below is done with poster colors.

Avani is small village in Kolar district around 95 kms from Bangalore. We did day trip from Bangalore to Kotilingeshwara and from there to Avani twice and each time I fell in love with this place. Avani has Ramlingeshwara temple complex which is of archaeological and mythological importance. As per mythology this place is birth place of Luv-Kush. Though I have heard of two more places around India with similar references to Sita's stay in Valmiki Ashram and birth of Luv-Kush. Avani temple complex has temples dedicated to Ram, Sita, Lakshman, Bharat, Shatrughna and even to Vali and Sugriv.  One can also visit the small hill next to temple complex which is said to have temple dedicated to Sita, though both the times we could not make it to top of hill due to various reasons.  When planning for visit to Avani make sure you are not heading on a hot sunny day or afternoon time as the whole complex is made in stone and it beco...

Activity level: Easy Supplies: Few bottle caps. googly eyes, fevicol and black acrylic color Simplest activity which kids can do without much supervision. Take colored bottle caps so you don't have to color your bugs.  Just stick the eyes and decorate bugs with black color. And if you are wondering where to find that red color cap, head to kitchen, it's from empty Hing(asafoetida) bottle!! And if you don't have one, you can always color white bottle cap with color of choice!

Here I will be sharing simple craft ideas for kids. Most of these activities are simple enough that kids of age group 4 and above will be able to do on their own or with very less adult supervision. I will share details of material and procedure in the posts though in most cases it can be varied based on things that will be available at hand. Any suggestions, comments, request are welcome and I will try to incporporate them soon. Hope you enjoy this crafty journey This is simple dangler made using few colour paper flowers that you can hand on the door or any where in your room. Activity level: easy Supplies colour paper of your choice, golden water color, googly eyes, satin robbion, glue(fevicol) and zigzag scissors Draw flower or shapes of your choice on the color paper and cut with zigzag scissors. This part you can help. Make kids decorate these flowes as per choice with googly eyes, golden water color or anything that ou have at hand like artificial decoration st...