Navarathri

Last year, my big deadline ended the night before Navarathri began, and so I could not prepare much in advance.  This year, I've been more lucky.  The big deadline is over. The next one is not for another 20 days and so I can actually help my little one gear up for Navarathri.

Thanks to two bags of "cotton snow" sent by the aunt, this year's side-show theme was easy to decide.  Last year, I believe it was a park/jungle/garden.

Due to the deadline and lack of time, we used ready-made plastic animals.  This year we got more ambitious.  So, we are making the Tundra landscape with home-made animals.  We started making the models yesterday. These are little puppet type paper animals with a toothpick to fix on to a (probably thermocol) base.  I hope they stand.  Little V painted the animals.

Excuse the half-clad eskimo.  He still needs footwear and I just figured out (in my sleep) how to make them.

Pretty thrilled with how the other animals turned out.

Still have a lot more to make - an igloo, more eskimoes, more animals...

We also need to figure out how to make a sled.

More as preparations get underway.

Update on 29/9/2010

Eskimo friends

Comments

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wonderful.let me know how you did it.I can do it with divya for her show and tell competition in school.can we make a mini zoo?

[Mpdvb]

Hey Lakshmi.. Awesome!! You are giving me a serious complex.. BTW if you are one of those who likes to do a new theme every year, then please save this year's creation- I am more than happy to use them for my GOLLU next year (HEEHEE)

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How wonderful. It is so nice that you have time to make them by hand this year. I know you two are having a good time together painting them and making them. How fun! I thought your one from last year looked good also.

I looked up Navarathri because I did not know what it was. Now I know a little more. Do you celebrate for many days? I hope you will share more pictures with us so we can learn about your celebration!