funpik en october 2013
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Lifestyle magazine for parentsTRANSCRIPT
Constant, neverending race against the time that, unwilling to stop even for a moment, with every mi-lisecond mercilessly made me realise that the long awaited and longed for day is striding near. And all that to be able to feel like a child again after ty-ping in www.FUNpik.pl,. To look at the world with a child's eyes, discover the beauty of every day rea-lity slipping through the fingers, which we do not appreciate overloaded by our burden of duties.
FUNpik is a virtual space in which play mixes with inspiration – here there are no boundaries.
Colours, texture, shapes, materials combine, creating whatever our imaginations allows. FUNpik is a bre-akaway from our daily routines and entrance to the inspiring colourful world. To the world where imagi-nation does not stop working. In the world of FUNpik everything is beautiful. It is here where an ordinary plastic bottle takes extraordinary colours, rubbish bag with the influence of the authors' vision and imagina-tion transforms into a gorgeous kite floating against the blue sky, and plain stones tell incredible stories.
FUNpik is the world thanks to which each of us can become a constructor, designer, creator, artist, author.
In the world of FUNpik, age, gender, education or lo-cation do not matter – what matters is imagination, creativity, passion, urge to learn, create, and among all – good fun. Here you do not have to rush into adulthood.
On your daily logistic expedition to the nurse-ry, school, work, shop, look around and see how gorgeous and colourful the world around us is.
Let each page FUNpik invite you to action and fun in the world full of inspiration.
Ewa
Constant, neverending race against the time that, unwilling to stop even for a moment, with every mi-lisecond mercilessly made me realise that the long awaited and longed for day is striding near. And all that to be able to feel like a child again after ty-ping in www.FUNpik.pl,. To look at the world with a child's eyes, discover the beauty of every day rea-lity slipping through the fingers, which we do not appreciate overloaded by our burden of duties.
FUNpik is a virtual space in which play mixes with inspiration – here there are no boundaries.
Colours, texture, shapes, materials combine, creating whatever our imaginations allows. FUNpik is a bre-akaway from our daily routines and entrance to the inspiring colourful world. To the world where imagi-nation does not stop working. In the world of FUNpik everything is beautiful. It is here where an ordinary plastic bottle takes extraordinary colours, rubbish bag with the influence of the authors' vision and imagina-tion transforms into a gorgeous kite floating against the blue sky, and plain stones tell incredible stories.
FUNpik is the world thanks to which each of us can become a constructor, designer, creator, artist, author.
In the world of FUNpik, age, gender, education or lo-cation do not matter – what matters is imagination, creativity, passion, urge to learn, create, and among all – good fun. Here you do not have to rush into adulthood.
On your daily logistic expedition to the nurse-ry, school, work, shop, look around and see how gorgeous and colourful the world around us is.
Let each page FUNpik invite you to action and fun in the world full of inspiration.
Countless cups of green tea, millions of sleepless nights, a pile of sketches, drafts, blueprints, hundreds of ideas and thousands of inspirations. And to add to that, searching for people who will eagerly and passionately co-create and share their ideas, knowledge, non-standard solutions, projects, products and childhood memories.
ulaI run… No, sorry, I dash! I dash ubtil I am out of breath, lickety-split, headlong, though it seems to me that it makes sense…
I run… No, sorry, I dash! I dash ubtil I am out of breath, lickety-split, headlong, though it seems to me that it makes sense…
STAGE 1. A two people household, unlimited, overworked to the bone, but well slept in the end (which they were to learn only later).
STAGE 2. Pregnancy. Longed for. Child.
STAGE 3. A two people household, exhausted to the bone, subdued to the third one, arguing (?), sleep deprived (now they understood what it means).
STAGE 4. Evolution: Breakdown (of the until now order) Hurling (between the old and the new) Breaking away (from the old good, out of compulsion, not out of will) Reevaluation (salvation).
My children have changed me.
The story above probably matches many of you. It also happened to me. And I am delighted each and every day. My children have reevaluated my life. Thanks to them I left that train going fast, straight ahead, but in fact to no-one-knows-where. I let my-self slow down. I allowed myself to enjoy the rising sun, lousy morning, early afternoon in the playgro-und (instead of the computer screen).
Even being tired at the end of the day, when I forced my way across moving sand dunes that came to us from the sandpit, I pick up all the garments scattered around the house during the joyful raindance culmi-nating in the warm bath and I sweep the crumbs left on the desert island of the sofa, I feel happy head to foot.
The world of children is beautiful, sincere and we should thank our children for inviting us there! Let's make use of the invititation and simply enjoy oursel-ves!
editorial staff
Ewa Juszczak Ula Szczepańska Monika Grochot Krzysztof Zgoda
Klaudia Dobija, Agnieszka DrońskaLabirynt Słów, www.labiryntslow.com.pl
Ewelina RękasArtCake, www.ArtCake.pl
Jacek WrzesińskiPhotograph, www.wrzesinski.art.pl
Marysia BocheńskaMery Selery, www.meryselery.blogspot.com
Marzena ŁadaTranslater
ourguests
Klaudia, Moi Miliwww.moimili.net
Agnieszka i Wanda, nosweetwww.nosweet.pl
Maciek i Asia, Ładne Halowww.ladne-halo.pl
Justyna, Bistro mamawww.bistromama.pl
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www.oneluckyhelen.comShe charms by shapes and colours.
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Helen Dardik
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What turns us on / this month
Write down on a piece of paper a few questions taht you would like to ask your kid (e.g. who would you like to be in the future?, what is his/her favourite colour/fru-it/toy?, what is his/her greatest dream?). Every year on the same day (e.g. his/her birthday) ask him/her the same questions and put down the answers. It is going to be a beautiful memoir after years.
Instant face makerwww.faceheads.ru/videos/in-stant-face-maker
Fetching simplicity. Opens the door to good fun.
Piecuchowowww.piecuchowo–modelinowo.blogspot.com
Entering the site I get lost… the sweetest memories of childhood come back to life. I begin to feel more intensely…
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GIRLISH ORNAMENTS
Wonderful years
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Do It Yourself Games
Do It Yourself Games
1. Find:- cardboard- colour sticky tape- a feltpen- a dice (we use a wooden block)
2. Tinker:- cut a rectangular board – our racing track.
- cover the edges with the sticky tape.
- draw the track (START, FINISH) with the feltpen.
- additionally in the first few fields dot some letters.
- on the dice write 3 chosen letters - each on adver-se sides.
3. Play!Ready..., steady..., go! Cast the dice, write the letter you have thrown on the racing board. Throw until any of the letters gets to the finish. Check which letter is the quickest!
1. Find:- letters (we chose wooden blocks).
2. Tinker:- spread the letters, e.g. on the floor (you can pick a few letters or use the whole alphabet).
3. Play!Look around and find objects whose names begin with any of the chosen letters. Who is the first to find ob-jects for all the letters wins. Is that YOU to become the master of the alphabet?
1. Find:- a piece of cloth (an old sheet, a big
towel)
- 8 pieces of felt
- glue (or a needle and thread)
- stones
2. Tinker:- spread the cloth.- cut the numbers 1 to 8 in the
felt pieces.- glue (or sew) them to the cloth.
3. Play!The hopscotch game is much more fun in a group – invite other kids to play. The first to throw the stone onto the 1 field starts the game. To make it more difficult we jump on one leg. (In the case of double fields we place two feet, each on one field). If you get to the finish not falling down, not placing the feet outside the fields and not forgetting the stone on the way back, you get to Round 2. Throw the stone again - this time to the field 2, jump and so on until you do 8. Prac-tise your balance and remember that each falldown means beginning the round once again.
Tic-tac-toedevelops logical-strategic thinking.
1. Find:- a metal box (e.g. from sweets)
- decorative elements (e.g. washi tape, scrapbooking paper)
- black permanent feltpen
- a ruler
2. Tinker:- clean the metal box.- cover the inside and outside of the box with the colourful
papers and tapes – the only limit is your imagination.- draw 2 vertical and 2 horizontal lines in the box thus ma-
king a table. - prepare pawns by sticking the magnetic tape to the buttons.
3. Play!The time has come to use strategy. Time and place do not count when you manage to confound. Check if you can challenge your opponent.
- scissors
- 14 buttons (7 for each colour)
- sticky magnetic tape
- glue
1. Find:- a plastic box/ lunchbox- ornaments (here co-
lourful sticky paper, washi tape)
- cardboard- glue- lego blocks + base- scissors
3. Play!No more boring jour-neys! Take your le-go-box with you and build what your imagi-nation suggests.
2. Tinker: - prepare the box – remove la-bels, wash it and dry. - measure the inside of the lid and draw its shape on the car-dboard (so as to smoothen any roughness of the lid). - cut the shape out of the car-dboard and place it in the lid using strong adhesive glue. - inside of the box - cover with colourpaper (use the glue if the paper does not stick to the box). - cover the outside of the lid and box with colourpaper or washi tape as your imagina-tion wishes. - glue the lego base to the insi-de of the lid (use strong adhe-sive glue). - put the blocks inside the box.
1. Find:- rubbish bag- ornaments (here washi tape, per-
manent feltpen)- string
3. Play:Find out what it's like to create your own flying object that will fill you with unforgettable sensations.
2. Tinker:- spread one rubbish bag on
even surface.- decorate it as you wish.- attach the string.
The kite is an excellent outdoor activity that develops motion coordi-nation.
Bowling develops motion-sight coordination and exercises fo-cusing. It develops logical thin-king, urges you to predict and plan. It helps boost perseveran-ce and strong will.
1. Find:- plastic bottles filled with water- dye / paint /food pigment- a ball
2. Tinker:- prepare the bottles - remove labels and wash
them thoroughly.- pour water into each bottle.- colour the water using paint or pigment and
screw the bottles.- place the bottles in a triangle (just like
playing bowling).
3. Play:COLOUR GAMEPlace the bottles in a row / Prepare colour papers / The kids draws a paper and hits the bottle filled with water of the same colour / One point is scored on success / The winner scores most pointsPOINT GAMEPlace the bottles in a row / Using the feltpen write points on the bottles / When the kid hits a bottle, they get as many points as on the bottle
1. Find:- a plastic bag- stones of different sizes- paints
3. Play:Draw a stone and beging an incre-dible adventure story. Invite family members to play together. Another person draws a stone and continu-es the story. The more people, the more surprising the plot of your story.
2. Tinker:- draw a picture on each stone (one
stone - one image)- when the stones are dry place them
in the bag.
1. Find:- a few colourful containers of
various sizes (here: plastic plant pots)
- balls- sheets of paper- paper clips- feltpens- glue
2. Tinker:- cut out circles from the
paper.- write the points to score on
each and glue to the paper clip.
- attach the clips to the con-tainers.
- plaace the containers at variable distances and you are ready to play.
3. Play:Take the ball and try to aim into the scattered containers. Remember, the smal-lest containers must be the most precious. The winner is the one who scores the most points.
1. Find:- used toilet paper card-
board rolls- cardboard walls- pencils- sticky tape- scissors- decorative elements
(here paints)
3. Play:Design your own castle. Feel like an archtect and builder – make your unique construc-tion.
2. Tinker:- make holes and cuts in the cardboard rolls.- decorate the rolls according to your taste and invention.- build the construction – attach the decorated rolls
using pencils, go up using the cuts, and fix the walls using sticky tape.With younger kids colour the rolls and build the construction together.With older kids prepare the plan of the construction, think what you want to build, how many walls, towers, what design (castle, circus, confectioner's etc.) and act according to your chosen project.
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1 Anything holder from whatever NAAMA AGASSI
2 Wooden blocks WATERMELONCATCOMPANY
3 Cardboard toys LOVE KIDS
4 Micro mascots SUAMI
5 Spiining puppets MISZKOMASZKO
6 Kit mascots CLUMPY-O-LUMPY
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Klaudia with mother
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1 Letter shelves CHIAOZZA
2 Lamp MON COLONEL
3 Cushions ELSIE DODDS
4 Bust NECHEPURENKA
5 Sheep bookshelf ROWEN AND WREN
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1 Toy box PLANECO
2 Picture AGATA KRAWCZYK
3 Cars Carpet AGNIESZKA CZOP, JOANNA RUSIN
4 Pufi Pouf MINIMETRY
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fashion
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we create for natty kids of naughty parents. Designing new stunning patterns and making sure the quality of de-tail production is high, we re-member what is the most im-portant: comfort, kids' skin protection and ecology
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nosweet
Agnieszka and Wanda, nosweetwww.nosweet.pl
Wanda
photo: private collection
guestion-naire• EVERYTHING BEGAN… quite simply. Two mums, five kids (3+2),
would go for a walk, cuddle their kids, hold their husbands, read books, though not really following the plot becausse they were thinking about something not quite definite. One evening one mum put her kids to bed, sat down and on a piece of paper wrote 'nosweet'. The very same night the other mum dreamt about sewing clothes for kids. They both met in the morning. Something not defined yet came to being in April 2013. The 'nosweet' kids' ware brandname was created, whose basic fabrics is organic cotton.
• OUR BRAND… is intended for kids aged 2 to10 (standard sizes from 92–140 cm). It has been created with kids' comfort and safety in mind. Both fabrics made from natural GOTS certified cotton and prints do not irritate even the most sensitive skin of a kid.
• OUR COLLECTION… aims at simplicity. The clothes do not hinder kids' moves, they feel unhampered, and the clothing labels made of high quality cotton do not irritate the skin. The parents are tempted by the interesting design of the garments – we bet on bold but not standing out patterns and details that make 'nosweet' desirable. The latest collection, beside beetle and cloud prints, will be enriched with warmer materials: organic tracksuits, plain knitwear and plush. Beside basic clothing like underwear, leggings or t-shirts, tank tops or longsleeves, new designs of dresses, blouses, trousers, sweatshirts and waistecoats or hats.
• WE ARE INSPIRED BY… nature, flora and fauna – especially the tiny ones, who are not liked by everyone :P
• BRANDS THAT WE VALUE / ADMIRE… Nununu, Goat Milk, Moi.
• COMPETITORS… we try to do our own thing and not to look at others.
• NEAREST PLANS… our new autumn/winter collection is just en-tering the market and at the same time we are working on our spring/summer 2014 collection.
• WE DREAM ABOUT… in order to make dreams come through they should not be talked about loud, so let this stay our mystery.
• IN OUR FREE TIME… hmmmm... but what a free time is? We have a looot of kids and in our free time we are just working. And seriously - if it happens to us, we like to sit down with a mug of tea and read a paper or book in peace.
• IN OUR CHILDHOOD… we were simply kids.
• THE WORLD OF A CHILD… is the world full of colours, smiles and simplicity.
• AN IDEA FOR PLAYING WITH YOUR KID… any invented by the kids. What matters is being together!
Agnieszka
photo: private collection
fot. Krzysiek Opaliński
photo: Krzysiek Opaliński
photo: Krzysiek Opaliński
photo: Krzysiek Opaliński
photo: Krzysiek Opaliński
photo: Krzysiek Opaliński
photo: Krzysiek Opaliński
photo: Krzysiek Opaliński
COLLECTION
AW 13/14Miszkomaszkowww.miszkomaszko.com
photo: Baret
photo: Baret
photo: Baret
photo: Baret
COLLECTION
AW 13/14Dress you upwww.dressyouup.pl
photo: Viola Chmiel, from aparatmojedziecko blog
photo: Viola Chmiel, from aparatmojedziecko blog
photo: Viola Chmiel, from aparatmojedziecko blog
COLLECTION
AW 13/14EFVVA
www.efvva.comphoto: PinkWings
photo: PinkWingsphoto: PinkWings
COLLECTION
AW 13/14Kids on the moon
www.kidsonthemoon.com
photo: Krzysiek Opaliński
photo: Krzysiek Opaliński
photo: Krzysiek Opaliński
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GOODDESIGN
authors'stories
ladnehalo
Maciek and Asia, Ładne Halowww.ladne-halo.pl
Asia
Maciekphoto: private collection
photo: private collection
questionnaire• EVERYTHING BEGAN…
A: from Maciek's idea for 'Ładne Halo' and my resolution to help him. M: from the idea for a book title. First I invented 'When I grow older, I will become a kid', then the plot, text and pictures. When I was working on the book, the idea for starting my own publishing house triggered, and in the end its name came on: Ładne Halo (translated Nice Hey).
• MY ILLUSTRATIONS… A: are careless. I glue and sew them together. There is always something sticking out, dangling unravelled, tangled. But I often like them the way they are. I am not a professional illustrator anyway. I know those who are. M: are colourful, plain and neat, just like crayons in the box.
• THE BIGGEST SATISFACTION... A: is when a kid picks up my book from amongs others on the shelf, for example to take it to the park, look at it and read at bedtime. M: is unpacking the package from the printing plant and looking at the new book for the first time, the moment when an idea reaches its shape, weight, texture and smell.
• WHAT INSPIRES ME IS… A: daily reality. Small business. M: Olivier Jeffers, Jon Klassen, Paweł Pawlak.
• I ADMIRE… A: now autumn. September is probably the most beauti-ful month in the world. M: Wes Anderson, because he has a gift for telling stories, and each time he creates the whole new world, with all its details.
• NEAREST PLANS… A: From 17 to 27 October, Łodz hosts (for the 7th time) design festival. This year we participate in a few initiati-ves related to it. I will be having art workshop on dreams for kids. Together with the festival organisers we have prepared a calendar for kids, designed by Maciek, on the history of Polish design. It will be handed out to guests of the festival events. We are also planning to hold in our workshop the exhibition of Kasia Bogucka's illustar-tions "Lala Lolka”, so as to celebrate the MUST HAVE distinction from Poland. Finally, we will take part in the REMADE Market, where you can drop in to talk to us or to buy books. It is all planned in cooperation with Łódź Design Festival within the 10 October days. We are looking forward to it. M: holidays and the new book that follows them.
• I DREAM… A: that one day everything will be ok. M: about a book factory and three ships to take them around the world.
• IN A FREE TIME… A: I overlook. M: teach my dog new tricks.
• IN MY CHILDHOOD… A: I wanted to be a shop assistant at the butcher's; I had to have my one eye covered in glasses so as to hide one eye for training; I would spend my whole holidays with my brothers at our grandparents' in the country, and we caught crickets into jars. M: mum did my drawing for school for me.
• THE WORLD OF A CHILD… A: sounds like a toy shop name :). M: is this world, but happening once again.
When I grow older, I will become a kid
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Havefun!Colour, cut out and glue the dog.Take it for an autumn walk.
Idea for playing with your kid
Here to takeCUT OUT
DOG
Picture-bookclose-up toothpodby Asia Guszta
Asia Guszta, Ładne Halowww.ladne-halo.pl, www.ilustrada.plwww.niepowiemmm.tumblr.com
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It blends, first of all, word and picture. It connects, in its particular way, the author and the reader. It combines, very tightly, material features of a book with its purport. The say-ing "don't rate the book by its cover" is put away and replaced with: "read the cover, read the picture, use all your senses, and above all - your imagination, when encountering the book.
Let's look closer at those three combinations. For the start: word and picture. They are equally important in picturebooks, comple-ment each other and create a relationship. Re-taining its original English name, consciously spelled without the dividing space, or the hash suggesting contradiction. Polish translation would not convey the idea of the picturebook phenomenon so neatly.
This signiphicant relation of the word and picture makes 'picturebook' something diffe-rent from an illustrated book. Many people think that picturebook and illustrated book are synonims. But the are not! In a traditio-nal book, an illustration presents the author's interpretation of the content. In a picturebo-ok, an illustration conveys the content, adds to it. The picture hides the author's thought, just like the words do it. Thus it is not only an ornament, impulse, affecting the sense of sight and triggering imagination, but also the medium. It happens in various ways.
Picturebook is a way of telling stories with a book that can hardly be classified in any particular genre within literature and art. It combines not only the features of various narrative types, different conventions and esthetic values, but blends many more codependent elements. „
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"Where is the cake?” The Tjong-Khing, Eneduerabe Publishing House, 2012
If the balance between the word and picture were to be shaken, it would only be to the advantage of the latter, which in many beautiful picturebooks exists solely. Following the pages full of charac-ters and their adventures, we tell the story in our own words, in our minds or aloud, when the kid (sometimes the adult, too) heartily shout, 'oh, no, the pig is going to fall down the rock!" looking through the picture story "Where is the cake?" by The Tjong-Khing.
"Magic-ships & steam-cians" Paweł Pawlak, Tatarak Publishing House, 2012
Another time, this medium contained in the illustrations is not so virtual. Just like in the case of "Magic-ships & steam-cians" by Paweł Pawlak, in which the pictures, beside telling us about the town daily reality seen from the tenament house window, and then take us on a journey over the most incredible lands, also tell us much more. They tell us about child imagination, a child's way of experiencing its own moments, maybe even dealing with longing? All this was contained by the author in the sheer pictures, and the whole book was desig-ned so as it does hardly contain any text.
"Auto"J.M.Brum, Jan Bajtlik,Dwie Siostry Publishing House, 2013
Sometimes it happens that reading a book we would not understand it anyway but the illu-strations, or it would not manage to entertain or move us, thus being incomplete. A good exam-ple for that is “Auto,” illustrated by Jan Bajtlik. The thing is how you can make use of a car, which at the end of the book turns out to be, in fact, driving on the carpet. The illustrations tell me, however, “but how come, maybe on a carpet, but it all really happened, dad and I were sitting in the car, driving at night and got to the petrol station to fill the car;" these are the rules of the play and its magic. In this way, thanks to the il-lustrations, the book about a car becomes a book about the magic of childhood. At various ages it can be read and appreciated in different ways.
It all sounded gravely serious until we looked into the books. What is the most fascinating about picturebooks is the charm, naturality and inventiveness with which they tell about simple things. Thus, joining word and picture, so difficult in theory, picturebooks open up to the reader, thanks to which you can read them in
many more ways than usually. We will discuss further the intelligent relationship that is created at this moment between the reader and the author in our next issue of FUNpik magazine. In the final part of this mini-series we will try to research into the connection of the layout of a picturebook and its purport.
cooking
cooking
bistromama
She cooks 'roughly,' two hands and two legs. She swiftly moves around in this culinary maze. Stirring in the pots she conjures, taking us to a kitchen full of tastes and flavours, seasoned with a pinch of warmth of hearth and home.
Justyna, Bistro mamawww.bistromama.pl
Justyna
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bistromama
questionnaire• EVERYTHING BEGAN… on Hania's third birthday. Before the party I took a few
photos of what I had prepared. And in the evening, after the party, I sat down and googled "how to start a blog”.
• MY KITCHEN… is the way I like it most, there is no place for minimalism and modern design. I love single mugs, old plates, souvenir teaspoons. My kitchen is yeasts dough, fruit and seasonal vegetables, soups and pasta, noodles. Meat might not exists.
• THE BIGGEST SATISFACTION... are for me the comments on the blog from the people who are only taking their first steps in the kitchen and write it has happened thanks to bistro mama. The satisfaction are also the contacts made, useful answers to the questions asked, and the feedback, somebody grateful they can always count on my advice.
• WHAT INSPIRES ME IS… everyday reality. Weekend. Weather. Fruit and vegetable market stands. Cravings and wishes of the family. Cookbooks. Favourite blogs. Supplies from the fridge.
• I ADMIRE… mothers of three kids who are working professionally. Mothers of disabled children and single mothers. I admire them for their good organisa-tion, great patience, ability to plan and make ends meet.
• THE NEAREST PLANS… not defined. I am on parental leave and, though my job is waiting for me, I can't leave my home, kids, especially the 16-month Franek. I feel that the present time is special, it will never happen again. I am not plan-ning anything special, I am celebrating every day reality.
• I DREAM ABOUT… constant uninterrupted at least 8-hour sleep. If I am allowed to complain about missing anything, it is only sleep deprivation. I dream about sleeping well at night. But I would not mind an hour's nap in a hammock by the warm ocean.
• IN MY FREE TIME… I don't want to say that I iron or add a new recipe to the blog. In my free time I simply read books. I am addicted to books. But not the bistro mama, there would probably be a "reading mama" : )
• IN MY CHILDHOOD… I lived in the country. My childhood was a plum orchard, a lime tree in blossom in front of the house, evenings on the steps, lifted early potatoes right from the garden. In winter waiting for the schoolbus, which so-metimes got stuck in the snowdrift, evenings on the skateaway near the house. In the kitchen there was a big table - the centre of all the family life, the most important talks; I also studied for my final exams there and copied the first recipes from magazines into my own notebook.
• THE WORLD OF A CHILD… is a world full of puzzles, learning, tasting. Meeting worms on the way, taking a stick home, collecting stones, tasting the crayon. The world of a child requires great patience of the adult. Time, wise answers, creative plays. It is worth doing everything in order to let our children remem-ber their childhood in the best possible way.
DancercupcakesWe need:Colour card, pencil, color blotting paper, needle and thread, toothpicks, glue, scissors.
On the paper we draw the dancer's "waist," cut out the template, put it on the card, outline it with the pencil. For each dancer we need two parts so as to glue them afterwards. We cut the waists, cover with glue, put the toothpick between them and stick together.
We cut out strips sized 20 cm by 5 cm from the blotting paper bibuły. We put them on over another, bend them longways in half and unfold.
We thread the needle and make and tie a knot. We sew both strips of blotting paper along the bending line by basting stitch. When we reach the end, we crease the paper and tie the thread ends.
Very carefully, we separate the pieces of the crease - it will make a creased skirt. Next we glue the bottom part of the waist and slip the skirt on the toothpick so as the both parts stick together.
We place the ready dancers in the baked mini cupca-kes, decorated with cream.
Idea for playing with your kid
Lemon mini cupcakes:• 170 ml oil • 225 g flour• 1 teaspoon baking powder• 150 g sugar• 2 eggs• 150 ml milk• lemon juice and grated lemon peel (I
used juice from 1,5 lemon)
In the bowl we mix the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder.
In another bowl - the wet ingredients: oil, eggs, milk, lemon juice and grated peel.
We mix the dry and wet ingredients and stir them quickly. We lay baking paper in the muffin form and spread the pastry. Bake for about 20 - 25 minutes at 180ºC.
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DINNERY
1. Rinse the salmon fillets and dry with paper towel.
2. Heat the oven to 200ºC.3. Melt the butter, add lemon juice,
chopped mint, grated lemon peel and ginger. Season with salt, pepper and stir. Spread this seasoned butter on both sides of each fillet.
4. Put into a casserole dish each fillet, the skin side up and roast for about 10 minutes. Then turn the salmon upside down, so as the skin was down, and roast for another 8-10 minutes. Enjoy your meal!
Ingredients:• 2 salmon fillets
• 50 g butter
• 1/2 lemon juice
• 1/2 lemon grated peel
• 8-10 finely chopped mint leaves
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground ginger
• salt
• freshly ground pepper
Salmon roasted in lemon-mint butter
Bistro mama recommends!
Classic.
Salmon in butter with lemon is a classic dish.When you add a few finely chopped mint leaves and grated ginger, the roasted fish gains a new taste.
It's worth trying „
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HOMEBAKERY
Ingredients:Pastry
• 3 and 1/4 cup (250 ml) wheat flower
• 1 cup milk
• 10 g fresh yeasts
• 2 heaping spoon sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 4 spoon sunflower oil
• about 300 g destoned damson plums
• egg (beaten, to spread on buns)
Crumbs
• 1/2 cup wheat flower
• 5 spoon sugar
• 60 g butter
Buns with plum and crumb
1. Warm ¼ cup milk, add crunched yeasts, salt, sugar and half cup flour, cover with cloth and put in a warm place to start leavening (about 20 minutes).
2. After that time, warm the rema-ining milk and add to the leaven.
3. Then add the rest of the ingredients of the pastry and knead until it is flexible and not sticky.
4. Cover it once again with the cloth and leave in a warm place until it doubles its size (about 1 hour).
5. After that, we knead the pastry aga-in and divide into 12 equal parts.
6. Form round buns, put on the ba-king tray and leave in a warm place for about 40 min. to leaven.
7. When the buns get bigger, press the bottom of a glass in the middle of each bun so as to make a dim-ple (the pastry should be very thin there).
8. Put halved plums into each dimple.9. Finally, we make crumb. We put
all the ingredients into a bowl and knead pastry.
10. Smear each bun with beaten egg and spread crumbs on it.
11. Bake in the heated oven (190ºC) for about 25 minutes Enjoy!
photo.: Jacek Wrzesiński
Dessert
1. Dissolve the jelly in half of the water stated on the packet and put aside.
2. Whip the buttermilk and cream until they are fluffy .
3. Still whipping, we slowly add coo-led but still warm jelly (very slowly.
4. Put the mixture to fancy jars and into the fridge.
5. Blend the peaches and spread over partially jelled dessert. Enjoy!
Ingredients:• 1 packet peach jelly
• 1 and 1/4 cup (250 ml) buttermilk
• 2/3 cup whipping cream
• 10 peaches
Light peachmousse time
Dessertphoto.: Jacek Wrzesiński
photo.: Jacek Wrzesiński
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partykids
Ewelina Rękas, ArtCakewww.ArtCake.pl
Prepared by:
1. Make the body from the white icing (flatttened egg).
2. Roll the white and blue icing into 1 mm layer. Cut even narrow stripes out of the blue icing and roll them into the white icing. Cut a stripe out of it. Put it round the body so as to make the pirate's T-shirt (leave a piece for the sleeves). Roll the brown icing to about 1mm, cut a stripe and put to the body to make the pirate's trousers.
3. Roll the red icing to about 1mm and cut out two rectangles (back and front of the waistcoat). Put it to the body and cut so as to get the shape of the waistcoat (holes for arms, the waistcoat undone, neck cut).
4. Make two rolls with the brown icing – cut one end sharp (like in the picture), flatten the other and attach the legs to the body. Glue a bright brown ball to one leg, flatten it, and then glue a thin bright brown roll (the wooden leg). Glue a body-like roll to the other leg. Add a shoe (formed oval piece of brown icing).
5. Form 2 rolls from the body-like icing, flatten the ends to make hands, cut the edge to make fin-gers. Form another 2 rolls (arms) combine with the forearms.
6. Glue white and blue sleeves on each arm and attach to the body.
We need:• white plastic icing• blue plastic icing• brown plastic icing (bright and dark)• red plastic icing• orange dry food dye• edible glue
7. Nail a toothpick into the body to hold the head. Make a ball from the body-like icing.
8. Make the smile with the decorating tip.
9. Cut out and glue the moustache and beard. Make a tiny ball for the nose, attach and make two nose holes.
10. Prepare small balls, attach and form ears.
11. Cut out two small circles for the eyes, glue the pupils and attach to the head.
12. Attach the scarf. Glue small white dots.
13. Glue an eye band over one eye. Powder the cheeks. Ready!
BIRTHDAYPIRATE SET
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Sh..., quietly, don't say anything not to scare them away. Can you see the centipedes and snails? It means a few more steps and we reach the goal – the clearing of the wooden fairies where there is a magic birthday party...
In their world, like with the touch of a magic wand, muffins turn into the most beautiful flowers, and wild fruit make the most delicio-us nectare that will slake many a wanderer. Sit down on the wood moss and let your-selves into the magic of the world around you.
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Prepared by:
1. Roll the yellow icing to about 5mm. Cut a circle with the bigger form (= centre of the flower). Decorate the centre as you wish (we made a sim-ple but attractive checkered pattern).
2. Roll the pink icing to about 5mm. Cut 6 circles with the smaller form.
3. Cut off each circle to make petals.
4. Make a few straight cuts on each petal. Glue the centre of the flower and the petals. The flower is ready. ! To make the petal edges smooth, cut them out through food foil.
Needed:• Yellow plastic icing• Pink plastic icing• Round cut-out forms (2 different diame-
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6. Form 2 rolls from the body-like icing (to make legs). Bend them in half. Form the knees.
7. Attach the legs to the body.
8. Roll finely (1mm) the green icing. Cut the dress like in pic.8
9. Spread the edible glue on the body and legs and attach the dress (see pictures 9a +9b).
10. Form 2 rolls from the body-like icing (to make arms). Model the hand:
a. Flatten one end of the roll a little thus making the palm.
b. Make a cut forming the wrist.
c. Cut the flatten part making the fingers. Model the fingers, Bend off the thumb (see pictures 10a +10b).
Needed:• Body-like plastic icing• Green plastic icing• Yellow plastic icing• Blue plastic icing (a little to make the iris) • Black plastic icing (a little to make the pupils)• Food markers (black, brown, red)• Edible glue
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12. Shape the head according to pictures 12a – 12e (eye holes, the nose, shaping the lips).
13. Prepare the eyes. Glue the blue iris and the black pupil to the white (sclera).
14. Draw the black line over the eye with the food marker.
15. Colour the lips and draw eyebrows.
16. Shape the hair. Make lines on the yellow icing to immitate the hair strands. Cut small pieces and glue to the head.
17. Finally, attach the bun.
18. Prepare a thin green band and put it round the bun to immitate a ribbon.
19. Make "elfy” ear and glue to the head. Ready!
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BIRTHDAYWOOD FAIRY SET
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printables
printables
Rules:1. Cut the cards. Shuffle and place the pictures down on the teeth with
numbers (eg. +1 / -2). There are more cards than fields.
2. Place the pawns on the start. The youngest player starts the game.
3. Move so as to reach the finish as quick as possible. You will some across various tasks and obstacles on your way:
a. If you stand on the tooth with a card, turn it. Say whether eating the food shown in the picture is good or bad for our teeth. If your answer is correct, move forward as many fields as the number after the "+” sign. If your answer is wrong, you go back as many fields as the number following the "-" sign. Remove the shown card from the tooth and place another from the stack. Another player may also stand on that field.
b. If you stand on a bad tooth, you loose your turn. Don't think you will get bored. In the meantime you will learn a lot of inte-resting things.
c. If you stand on the tooth with dental floss, you are lucky – you can rope down to the tooth below that is closer to the finish.
d. d. If you stand on a tooth with a brush, you are lucky – you can slide to the tooth below that is closer to the finish.
1. The player who gets to the finish first, wins the game.
Marysia Bocheńska, Mery Selerywww.meryselery.blogspot.com
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THE TOOTHGAME
In childhood we used to look into it almost each day. Maybe once we even met there?
If you were in the places non-existent on maps, you met wizards, kings, talking animals and other oddities, thus we certainly met there.
This magic world deserves to be shown to our kids. Hence, our idea for another play - theatre.
We start with Red Riding Hood. Read the story. Divide the roles. Make suitable scenery, using all the materials that you find. We have prepared the characters from this fairytale. Enjoy the play!
Marysia Bocheńska, Mery Selerywww.meryselery.blogspot.com
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Count how many times appeared:
Find hiding:
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Pelagius the Bear’s AdventuresJumping in the pudd-les is a great fun. But you know well that you must prepare to it carefully.
Dress the Bear so as he could jump as long as he wants and smile didn’t leave him.
How are you, Bear?a) If you don’t have clothes, the rain is dripping on you and your feet get wet?
b) When you are wearing a jumper and trousers?
c) When you are carrying an umbrella and wearing wellingtons?
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THE GAME
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To rescueFelix the Deer has lost his shadow. Help him fi nd it.
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Looking for a cozy bedHow is Antonia the Ant going to fi nd her bed?
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THE GAME
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THE GAME
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Scattered paper cutsMark which elements you need for the owl.
Cut out all the elements and make the mouse and the owl.
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Forest wanderingIt’s raining. There is mud on the fo-rest path. Bear, Rabbit, Fox, Hedgeh-og and Owl are walking.
Draw the prints they left on the path
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THE GAME
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Autumn ChainsPrepare autumn chains placing all your autumn treasures on the thread.
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Alfred the Hed-gehog’s SnacksWhat delicious would Alfred the Hedgehog eat? Prepare something yummy for him. Alfred will
take home the snacks you prepared.
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THE GAME
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Fluffy Dwarf’s HouseFluffy Dwarf has got a new house. Help him decorate it.
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The MeetingSinging, it wanders in the forest. Guess who?
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