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 Rub A Duck Tub, A Rubber Duck theme for Our Creative Art Playgroup!

It was a cloudy Morning, we started off with 

dotting the ducks with colourful colours,

but this time we wet the duck first! See the ducks have polka dots!

All little fingers paint their duck using the cotton swaps and 

are free to dots wherever they want.

Their patience are being tested, not all finished their painting though! 

All getting excited to make their own Ducky Cupcake! 

Anxiously waiting to eat it too!

To our surprise, all children manage to

joint the cuppies and create their own version of duckies!

They get to decorate their ducks with tiny marshmallows and edible beads. 

 Can you see our lovely creations? 

Those little ducks are just too pretty to be eaten, snap a shot first before eating it!

Next we had a scooping duckies time, 

this get to brush up their motor skills and concentration.

Some even get to scoop 2 at once, even better. 

Rule number one, no hands get to touch the ducks!

Here all ready line up to go for the ducky race!

Quack quack here we come, go number one and keep on coming.

We get the children to move about differently and work on their muscles a bit!

 Time for some fun!

Here all the kids go wild splashing water and
get wet like what little ducks do!

 Rub-A-Duck-Tub

We love water &

We had fun!

Lastly, some quiet moment to calm down before going home.

Now Story time!
I have a book about all different types of duck
which is very interesting for the kids to learn more about ducks.
They love the pictures and got really interested about ducks!

After the reading session, all were tired and ready for lunchtime!

Thanks to all who participated, all children had a blast with the ducks!

Child Posing for a Fashion Magazine!

Excuse me, This posting here is not related to any Creative Play but instead of a Child posing for a camera!

Yes, it is a Fashion shooting for a child. I am featuring this as I think most parents would love to have their kids having fun posing in front of a camera due to our advance technology, we just cannot help it, right? 

And I am sure your child will love it!

Here are some guidelines that you can follow:

- Find a location

- Prepare different dresses or sets of clothing

- Find suitable Accessories

- Get ready some props (remember they are just children)

 Here I have some examples of the fashion shooting photos.

It is easier if you choose a plain background, easy to work with.

Create the mood, fun is the key! Engage in conversations and just snap away, 

you will be surprise how easy it is!

 Remember, fashion shoot does not need the child to smile all the time, be natural is the key.

You can try do some pose and ask your little one to just follow, they will come out with their own version.

 See the little Teddy is the prop, just ask your little one to play with the prop and get ready your camera!

 Here comes the hardest part, pose with feel ~ you must know what mood you want before you ask your little one to pose for it. This one is a steady pose, I asked her to pose in a certain way by demonstrating for her and when she imitates it just snap away and be shocked at!

Lastly, remember to have fun, no shouting and say this is wrong because anything can happen and nothing can be wrong, just the timing. So always get ready with your camera, children are faster then your lenses!

Hope you enjoy the shooting although it is tedious but you will not regret it!

Trust me your little one will have more fun then you!

* If any of you try this fashion photo shooting, do share it with me! Have fun!

Back to School in January ~ (ORG)

For the year 2013, we begin Our Reading Group (ORG) with a 

"Back to school" Theme since it is January!

 Here is our Book of the day, Elmo Goes to school!

 All children are concentrating hard on the questions and answer session.

 Here we have a Show & Tell session by all mommies.

 We have chosen, a pencil box, a school bag, a box of colour pencils and a file folder.

For all the Show and Tell, there will be lots of Q&A sessions and explanations. The children had to participate more and engaging in conversations. This practices their listening and language skills while also introducing new vocab. I do hope that all of them learn something from this reading group.

All of us Mommies do hope that next time it will be their turn to explain things to us! LOL....

Point to Circles Art Theme

The year 2013 our CAP starts off with an Art theme. 

Point to Circles was the concept for our first playgroup in 2013. 

We start off with a simple introduction to Pointillism Art. 

A brief intro to Seurat and Paul Signac; both were pointillism artists.

 After introducing the artists and about pointillism art; we started with the ART on MUG project. As we need to baked the mug so that the drawings will stay on, so we kicked start with all the doodling. 

 I am so impressed with all their creations, they were really drawing circles and points using different colors and techniques. Really fun watching them doing their Art piece!

Next we had all the kids doing points art work using cotton swaps, they really have fun dotting away!

 Here you can see all their masterpieces! Brilliant isn't!

 Next, I asked the children to counting points on each objects that I show to them; the idea is to let them count and know the shape. Here I do talked about 3 dimensional art! 

 Lastly, we have fun playing Pointing Game, all of the children were supposed to point at the different parts of the body and know their friends name too. It is a good way for them to learn the body parts!

Overall, I do hope they all have fun, thanks to all who participated and make this playgroup fun!