Free play for toddler

It has been ages since I post anything here.

Sorry been lazy bit. LOL

Well I am going to talk about Free Play and the importance of it.

A lot of times we forgot how important free play it is to a child especially toddler;

they learn a lot from free play.

Imagination play an important role in free play

and many times creativity sneaks out from there.

There are many types of Sensory bins that we can think of for free play.

Here is one simple ones.

As you can see here, I use some flour, a spoon and a car;

I place all of it on a tray, there you go viola!

My LO play for it for about an hour....

well yes it is really messy in the end,

that is why if you can do it outdoor!

Skills learn include:

Fine motor skills in spooning and pouring.

Hands on play to feel the touch of powdery flour.

My toddler did try to blow the flour and see it fly all over.

I let him do it for fun as I am prepared for a messy play.

After all the scooping and pouring and flour fly all over;

time to clean up!

I pour all the flour on the floor for him to step on it!

This was really fun for him,

and yes you must restrict the area he can roam around!

Otherwise the whole house would be a mess!

Hope you can try this out with your little one!

Dress-up Party

Yes, we had a dress up party at home!

We all had dream about it when we were kids,

we try out our mum's clothes, wear mum's shoes,

wear mum's lipstick!

Come on, all little girls love dress-up!

I can tell you, they just love it and me too!

So, why wait.....

See what we did? I bet you love it too!

These 2 little girls just could not get enough of it!

And they just love to pose as well!

Halloween is not the only time you can dress up!

Oh, we had lots of different props as well, you see!

After the photo sessions, the girls get top browse through the photos as well.

How do you like my pose?

See, we can be serious too...... maybe LOL!

Last but not least, we just love a good laugh!

We hugs and giggles like all little kids do!

I hope you like what we did and try at home too!

Mommy has got the ideas for you...

Try it out!

 

All you need:

Old clothes that you cannot wear or want to throw away!

Hair pins

Bracelets / jewellery

Hats / scarfs / belts

Hair bands/ rubber bands

Other funny props....

A camera

 

There you go.... put all in a box let the children dig it out themselves!

It's more fun that way!

 

Hope you all have fun!

Monkeys had Fun! August- (ORG)

Hello everyone, We are back again with our monthly Reading Group!

This August, we started with Monkeys.

Here you can see we use 2 books.

Both books do talk about monkeys and what they do.

So I incorporated Actions words.

It was pretty fun as the children could act and play with the words.

After reading the book, we do some bouncing using the Bouncy ball.

All children take turns and had fun. So you can see they learn the word Bounce!

Next we did some craftwork. We let the children do cut and paste.

They were to make a monkey face!

Easy job for kids ages 3-5.

They cut it and paste it all by themselves.

Don't you just love our monkeys!

We are going to hang this in our bedroom!

Lastly before we end the session, we did a monkey dance!

 

Here you go,

First scratch your tummy, then lift up your chest,

then scratch your chin, after that lift your hands and reach up to the sky.

Do a silly walk, and pose!

Now wave goodbye and spread your wings up to the sky!

 

Hope you all have fun!

We just did!

CAP Cooking Class by Ms. Pearly (Nyonya Chef)

This is our second cooking class organised by CAP.

This time we had Ms.Pearly Kee who are

so kind to have us all mommies and children

around in her Home cook class.

Ms.Pearly is our own local Penang celebrity Nyonya chef.

We are going to cook some delicious Chicken Curry and Roti Jala.

Here are all our lovely mommies and their princesses.

The children age from the youngest 4-11.

All are junior master chef in the making..... lol.

 

We first started our class by touring the herb garden.

All the children get to see, smell and taste the different herb plants.

It is good that they get to see, smell, touch and taste at the same time.

One of our mommies, smelling the leaf... nice smell indeed!

Now here are some of the ingredients that we are using to cook our curry.

We introduce the ingredients to our children and they get to recognize the items.

We are using all our senses here!

 

Now the little one get started by peeling the potatoes!

See how concentrated she is on the skill that she is about to master.

All children get excited to cook, no matter how big or small the tasks is.

Here we have one of our mommy demonstrating

how to swirl the cup of batter on top of the pan.

This is how we cook the roti jala, or the kids call it spider pancake!

Looks like spider web they say, but yummy!

 

Here's our yummy looking chicken curry after cooking for an hour.

Looks delicious right, even our little ones try it and it is not that spicy!

Well you can add more chilli if you want to.

Here's all our mommies and children enjoying

our food after all the hard work.

Some of us even forgot to take off our apron!

The kids got so hungry after all the

cooking they just could not wait to get started!

Oh we had some homemade rosella drink as well.

Here is our group photo session.

We all had real fun, and learn a lot too!

The children had a blast!