3D snowflakes and flowers painted on fabric

Today bookworms came together for a very chilly meeting, as the weather in Karachi has been exceptionally cold for the past week. Some of the smaller bookworms chose not to take off their coats and even caps, in order to keep warm. Also the day’s reading was about cold and snow (which we do not have, though, in Karachi) – we read “Harry and the Snow King” by Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds.

Before reading the book, kids had a discussion about cold weather and snow. It turned out that some of the bookworms had seen snow and could share their experience of it: Sulaiman had travelled together with his father to a snowy area in Pakistan, Muhammad had seen the artificial snow in Dubai and Safia had been to a snowy area of Pakistan together with her family.

 

Harry, the main character of our today's book, was very eagerly waiting for the snow. The first fall brought just enough snow for him to build a very small snow king. But then the snow king disappeared. Harry was sure that it was kidnapped... Should he call the police? Or is there more to this mystery than meets the eye? Find your own copy of "Harry and the Snow King" for discovering what happened with Harry and his snow king.

 

After the reading, small bookworms had a discussion about snowflakes - how raindrops turn into snowflakes in snowy areas, how every snowflake has six corners but a unique design of it's own, how such variety and beauty of snowflakes makes us think of the wonders of Allah's (swt) creation. Then, we set out to make our very own snowflakes - this time, 3D ones. And here is what we came up with.

 

 

If you would like to try out making your own 3D snowflakes, here is the link with directions:

http://www.handimania.com/diy/3d-paper-snowflake-all-steps.html

While the small bookworms were busy with snow and snowflakes, the big girls worked hard on fabric painting - a workshop conducted by aunty Hina, who kindly shared this her talent with the girls. The girls thoroughly enjoyed the workshop! Jazak Allah Khair, aunty Hina!