I went to Tara Tots

Last week I went to Tara Tots to help them set up their library. I helped my mother set up the library. And I made some paper chains for decoration.

For the tiny baby books we put a basket to keep them in. A Orange sticker on the books for children up to 3 years. for children 3 to 5 years old we used blue sticker, for children 5 to 7 we used green color stickers.

This is how you make paper chains. Take as many papers as you want of different colors and take a scale to draw lines and cut strips of paper. Take a strip and fold it into a circle and tape it and then take another strip , pass it through the first circle and tape its ends and then keep going like that until you think it's done for you.

You can see the paper chain I made !

 

Dadi's Birthday

On saturday it was my Dadi's birthday. I had not made a cake and I had not got any gifts. Then when she came I had an idea. Mummy was getting her a saree, I thought I could make her a cake when they were in the market. So I made a cake , everyone said it was delicious. I could tell you the recipe and I will!

Ingredients-
180 gm butter
4 table spoons cocoa
2 cups flour
one cup sugar
one cup milk
3 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla

Method-
1. mix dry ingredients.
2. Add butter, milk , eggs and vanilla
3. Beat for 3 to 4 minutes
4. put it in a greased tin
5. bake it for 40 - 50 minutes

 

Cinquain

I made a cinquain for my school newspaper. Should I tell you the cinquain or should I not! What do you think? I think I should. I wrote a cinquain for my Daddy and I will tell it to you.

This is what I wrote for Daddy-

Rajul
Silly and loving
Jumping, Paddy hater , Party hater
Makes us happy when at home
Daddy

And here is my Daddy's reply-

Girls
Cheese and Chilly
Naughty, loving, fun. cool, smart
Trouble daddy when at home
Daughters

Now I am telling you the one I wrote for my school Newspaper-

Animals in the Zoo
Fun and Frolic
Jumping, sleeping, eating
Makes me want to hop
City Jungle!


 

Pune with family

I am back to write on my blog. I was in a place called Pune and there was no internet. I will tell you what I did in Pune. I went to a place called called Aga Khan palace. This is where Gandhi ji lived and wife died there. It was soo pretty.



Aga Khan Palace

I saw all the rooms and I went to the place where my mummy was born. That was even prettier than the Aga Khan palace.

Military Hospital- NDA Khadakvasla, Pune

My grandpa was in the Army and my mom was born in the Army hospital. Even that was pretty. My grandpa used to eat his meals in a place called a mess. Oh dont think it is the mess we make! It is a place where all the Army people eat their meals. And in the mess there are so many different knives, forks,spoons, tablespoons, plates. All kinds of different things to eat with!

There was a ballroom in the mess.

Ballroom in the Cadet Mess

All the cadets looked like little baby boys. Cadets are the people who are learning to be an officer in the Army.

Nora and me at Peacock bay, the Navy training grounds at NDA. With a really kind soldier.

Sudan Bhawan, NDA.

The three of us at the Peacock bay :)

 

 

 

My palette stand

Today I am going to share how to make a palette stand . You take  a cardboard  and cut the shape of a palette, then take an old-cup make a hole in the cardboard and tape the cup to the hole. Paint the whole thing make a design and your palette is ready to keep your brushes you can make more holes and put more cups and keep different things and your palette is ready .

Next Phase

Now I am in the next phase of my treatment, I can do whatever I like. I can go out for lunch, I can go for art classes and I can go for all the birthday parties I want. But I still have to meet my doctor every month. I am so happy. I have to be careful.I have to wash my hands but I can still do a lot more than what I could do before.

Taken a couple of months ago with my friend Aanya

 

I made wrapping Paper...

My Mom said that it is not nice to just keep buying paper to wrap gifts, you should make it! So I had an idea. I took long sheets of butter paper, wooden carved stamps, poster color and I decorated the paper by printing. I made lots and lots of wrapping paper. It was a lot of fun. And if you don't have stamps, you can use your hands or leaves! It is ok if you spill the paint . Wear an apron while doing this otherwise you will get all messy and dirty.



Getting the color ready

Making the paper

Many Sheets of Paper

 The one with leaf printing










 

 

The Doll I made with my friend ...

today I am going to share how to make a doll out of cloth
you take a peas of cloth which ever color you want your doll to be
and fold the cloth in half then draw a doll on the cloth
and cut the doll out stitch the doll from both sides leave the botom open so that you can stuff the doll with cotton inside otherwise you will not be able to fill it. and then stitch the bottom.

Then take a pencil or a pen and draw eyes and mouth and whatever you like. You can stick bindi's for eyes ,I used stickers and a pipe cleaner for its smile. And my Doll was ready. You can design your doll however you want. I designed mine like this-

 

Nora and my friend Fleur had come to our house and she also made a doll.

 

I was playing with my sister and did not have a place to play.I saw that my store room was empty so I took my doll on her bed in the store room and I made the room into a school for my dolls. I put stuffed toys all over the ground. You can put whatever you like, you can put books, I put three dolls. or you can put a blanket and a pillow on the floor. And grown ups are not allowed in that room.

 

Growns ups not allowed.



 

Nora Thumbelina

It was book week in my school and all the chilren had to dress up as story characters. my sister dressed up as  thumbelina . Thumbelina is as small as your thumb that is why she is called thumbelina. my sister wore a red cloak, she coloured  a lily pad and wore a white t shirt, wore a bandana on her head she looked pretty.

Yucky Mucky Hospital

Hello I am back it has been many days sins i last wrote because i was sic and then i hadto go to the hospital and the hospital has no intrnet.

I had to go because I had low TLC. TLC is the white blood cells in our body and it eats up all the germs. I was very angry in the hospital but what could I do? So my mummy got me some lego from the house. I made a new friend in the hospital, she had leukemia too! We both played in my room and we made a mask . We watched a Movie- Harry Potter and the sorcerer's Stone. Then one of my doctors, her name is Dr. Akanksha, asked me if the owl in this movie had a name? I did not remember. I think there was one owl who had a name and one who did not.  Can you tell me if it had a name and what it was?

My Lego creation

Sometimes I dont like my doctors because they poke me and prick me :( And I like them when they send me home :) I am very happy then.

 

Little hands at work

today  i am going to share how to make a jute bag

you will need a piece of jute as long as you want  your bag to be
then you will stitch the pieces of jute from both sides and
then you will take a rope and open the stitches a little from both sides and put the rope in and  tie a knot with the rope .and
your jute bag is redy if you want you can dekorate your jute bag with seekwins if  you wont you can stitch a few design and  your bag is redy.

The first post typed by Risa on her own and she wants you to know that the spellings are by sound! and she does not know how to type the Big Alphabets :)

Risa's favorite Bed time stories by Daddy

Ted the Giraffe

There was a Giraffe named Ted, he loved eating Apples. One day a thorn got stuck in his neck! Ted cried and sobbed because he could not eat apples any more! A monkey heard him cry, the monkey's name was Bobo. Bobo saw one juicy red apple and plucked it for Ted. This made Ted very happy.

Ted the giraffe said thank you and the monkey took out the thorn.




Ted the Giraffe

(My daddy made up this story when I was one year old.)
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Mamma Duck and Baby Duck

Once upon a time there lived two ducks - Mamma and her baby. Mamma always caught fish for baby. When the baby grew up, Baby Duck's  mamma said-' Now you are grown up my child , you catch fish on your own.' Baby duck said ' But Mamma, I do not know how to!'

One day, Mamma went out of the house for the whole day without leaving any fish for the baby. Baby went to the pond. First there was a fish swimming very fast, baby duck tried to catch it and dipped its head in but could not catch it. Another fish swimming a little slower came crossing by, baby tried to catch it but he could not! The hungry baby duck said ' I will try one last time and if I can't catch it, I will stay hungry untill Mamma comes home.' Baby closed his eyes and tried one last time and he caught it! The hungry Baby duck ate it and said 'I will catch some more fish for when mamma comes home.'

When mamma came home, she was very happy with the baby. She said, ' I told you , you will learn how to catch fish.'  And that was the end of the story.

 

The Fair

The Fair is a lovely place to be,
Oh! It is such a lot of fun.
I love the ponies dancing about and the cotton candy sticks to my tongue

The scary rides are the best in the fair
Oh they make you all dizzy
And put you in a tizzy

The fair is the best place to be.

                                                                                                                                         Risa Garg

Risa's pepper 'o' LOVE!

Today, I am going to teach you how to make a stuffed pepper. I make it for my Mom and Dad.

This recipe makes for one.

Ingredients:
Bell Pepper - one , you can choose any color
Potato- one boiled
Carrot -small
Tomato- small
Salt- 1/2 tsp
Pepper if you like
Green chilli- to taste

To make:
1. take the bell pepper, cut it in half and clean it up from inside

2. Mash the potato , dice the carrots and tomato into small pieces.

3. Put the mash potato in the bell pepper that you have just cut.

4. Sprinkle some salt on top .

5. Mix the carrot and tomato and you can also put some grated cheese. and Cover your stuffed Bell pepper with this,

6. Put this in the oven at medium temperature for 10-15 minutes.

Serve it with Tomato Ketchup!

Risa's Pepper 'o' Love

 

I love Portraits

These days, as I am at home, I spend a lot of time painting and my favorite color to use in all my paintings of myself is pink! Pink is the color that matches me and my skin:)

This is me and my Nani's (Granny) dog Lara, I made these paintings from a photograph. The pictures were taken in a city called Udaipur that is is a state called Rajasthan.

 

 

This is me in my Imagination!

This is me in my favorite T-Shirt!

 

This is me with my Daddy (whose face you cannot see!) I am three days old in this :) This painting style is called a monochrome - you have to take one color and then use different shades of the same color by mixing white or a little bit of black in it.

These are my parents (who don't look like my parents because I made my Mummy's teeth like a shark's and my Daddy's eyes like a clown! - ha ha ha)


 

 

न से नाग, न से नोरा

My sister Nora had to dress up like an akshar ( Hindi alphabet), she became a snake with a न  made on her t shirt. We made a snake and we tied the head to the hair band and the tail to her back. She looked very funny. She had to talk about snakes. These were her lines , she had to say them in Hindi-

न से नाग, मै नाग हूं , मै जगंल में पत्तीयौ के पीछे रहता हूं ।

मै साँपों का राजा हूं ।
मेरे कान नहीं हे पर मुझे सब सुनाई  देता हे।
मै किसी को नहीं काट ता, पर मुझे कोई तगं करे तो मैं गुस्सा हो जाता हूं ।
 

 

Sunshine Pancakes!

Today I am going to share my favourite pancake recipe. 

 Ingredients

Milk- 1/2 cup 

Egg- 1 egg
Oat bran-  1/2 cup 
Wheat flour -  1/2 cup
Curd-  1/2 cup 
Baking powder- 1/2 teaspoon 
Mix all the ingredients together and if it is a little dry you can add more milk.

 To make-

 Heat the frying pan, put butter in it then take a big spoon of the mixture and pour it in the pan. Spread it a little and let it cook, you can flip it over twice . It takes 5 minutes to cook.

 To serve-

You can put your favourite topping . My favourite topping is apple and banana with honey and a little bit of sprinkles.

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Me!

My name is risa. I am seven years old. I have a five year old sister and her name is Nora. Me and Nora love watching television. But I really also like baking cakes. And I like singing , I like dancing and i like discovering new things. I love painting, I have painted so many self portraits .

I have a puppy (who is not a puppy anymore), he loves jumping on all the people who come to our house. His name is Paddy, he is a Beagle. Beagles are small and short dogs.

 
Last December, we found out that I have Leukemia. It was very hard as we had to keep everything very clean and I could not play with my dog. And whoever had a cold could not come to our house. Even Nora! 

I decided to start my very own blog because it's fun to write about myself and my family.  

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