everytime i visit india i pick up alot of materials to survive here in belgium,and being the queen of kitsch i pick up many kitschy things to do creative things with, like these school charts.i bought them for an rupee each(i remember them being much cheaper when i was younger)and loads of them to use in different ways.i still remember how i used to use them in school for GK,history and science.i just love the graphics and the colours and the fact that each drawing is described in three different languages.
i want to share how i use these charts apart from letting my children learning from them.
you can plastify them and use them as plate mats(ideal for messy children)
i used them to make slingers for the childrens birthday parties.
they are amazing to wrap gifts in.
or as sketch book covers.
or as cards.i made these when my daughter nitya was born, to announce her birth.hand made each one of them(around 100)and bordered them with golden ribbon.
sometimes the most unnoticed things can be real treasures.enjoy:))
20 comments:
Loved the gift wrap and book cover ideas the best! Very creative!
this is LOVELY !!!
the ideal boy charts are an absolute scream (takes lost children to the police, ha ha..). but what creative ways you devised to use them megha! i think i'll go get myself some.
These charts are so lovely! And you use them in a wonderful way.
I love kitsch myself and these charts have been put to such great use by you. Do visist tasveerghar.com - U'll find some great kitsch posters there :)
wow amazing...reminded me of my early school days. They were available in road side bookshops. Thanks for sharing this.
I too started a blog on India backpacker:
www.lonebackpacker.blogspot.com
wow..The baby arrival cards are really cool.You made 100 of them..wow..
I grew up in India, but I don't remember these.
I found a 'multiplication chart' at a world bazaar shop in Virginia. It has numerals in english, but the heaeders in both hindi and english - It is really cool, it hangs in my study.
great post - you are so creative :)
Love the birth announcement cards!I'm so glad you shared these charts with us. They are common to those who have lived in India but to me they are totally new...and delightful.
It was pure coincidence that I stumbled across your blog and saw that you had written about the Ideal boy; pure coincidence too that I had written about this almost a year ago to the day. Here's the link: http://india-in-my-nightie.blogspot.com/2007/08/ideal-boy.html
These educational charts are lovely, and you've reminded me that I should dig out some more.
Lucky you being in Belgium, one of my favourite places. It's not everyone's cup of tea but if you want to see why Belgium means so much to many of us Brits, take a weekend trip out to the First World War battlefields and visit The Menin Gate at Ypres and nearby Tyne Cot Cemetery; very sobering.
Nice blog.
aneri masi thank you.
thanks sharanya:)
Lovely post Megha and great ways to use these charts:-))
Love the colours here:-)
Arch
I like the idea of the bunting/streamers for your parties and the sketch books covered with them.
I love Indian kitsh too, brings back fond memoirs of my childhood visits to India....vibrant, colourful and fun.
Thanks for sharing :))
Loved this journal covers! so cool!
:)
@ priya thank you.if you come up with some new idea using these charts do share.
dank u wel tania. :)
bhumika thank you will check out the website.
ravi kumar thank you,will come visit you soon cause i love travel blogs.
@ pea thank you and yes i made 100 of them it took me a week.i enjoy doing these things luckily i have patience for it.
thank you bhavana:)
am glad you enjoyed this robyn we all have so much to learn from each other.
chailey welcome to my world.and thank you for your comment.
about belgium my first years were very hard and lonely and grey but now i am slowly getting used to it.i dont know about being lucky but i have accepted the reality.
arch thank you:)
thank you embellisher:)
with pleasure shuma rani and thanks:)
thanks fingers
Hats of to your creativity.. never thought that those school charts can have any other use..I will for sure follow on your footsteps when time comes :)
"woh kehtein hain na creativity kuut kuut ke bhara hua hai :) "
you seem to be one of them...
thanks tanu
i came back again...i find this idea so original..:) Love it
:)
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