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!

Xmas Party - December (ORG)

Ho Ho Ho, It's Christmas again!

We are so excited this time

as we have lots to do!

First we read a story about Santa having a New Jet!

It was interesting as this book does relate

to our modern world, in my opinion it is

suitable to both gender; although we have

an all girls reading group here!

Santa's New Jet by David Biedrzycki.

After the story-telling session,

we continue with our Christmas Cooking activity.

Oh don't forget to wash hands first!

Here, showing the children some

ingredients and let them taste and smell some of it.

We are making Christmas Squares! Easy and neat.

We are doing it all by ourselves.

Some make it round too, using the moulds.

I know all mommies been waiting patiently for the recipe...

I hope you all can try it at home with your child too.

It is easy and most of all, no mess at all.

Best of all it is yummy!

 

Christmas Squares

1/2 cup oats

1 tbsp. sesame seeds

2 tbsp. mini marshmallows

2 tbsp. cranberries

4 tbsp. Honey

2 tbsp. Sunflower oil

Tiny bit of vanilla essence

 

Preheat Oven to 160 degrees.

Line baking sheet with baking paper.

Mix dry ingredients all together.

Then add honey, oil, vanilla essence.

Use spoon pour on the baking sheet and tap it thin and flat.

Bake for about 20 minutes, and let it cool for 10 minutes.

When it is cool, it should be able to break it into small pieces;

and keep it in an air tight container.

Viola!

Here are the examples of the round shape Christmas squares!

Ok I forgot to take pictures of the

other squares as they were quickly

being eaten or put into the container. LOL.

Next, we have the kids do lots of things for this

mini picture that they can hang on their wall.

Stencilling, tracing, drawing, colouring, cutting and paste!

Last but not least, this time, they have to write the

Merry Christmas wording and put down their names!

After all the activity, exchanging presents time!

The stockings were full now with little presents and sweets.

Here are the children hugging each other for the

photo with the Christmas tree!

 

Thanks again to all that participate,

the children really have fun!

The Joy of Mandala.

It's November! We are going to learn about Mandala!

 Yes, you heard me right, mandala.

It's for the kids to learn something about

inner peace and shapes and symmetry.

According to Wikipedia, In common use, mandala has become

a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern

that represents the cosmos metaphysically or

symbolically; a microcosm of the universe.

 

Here we have the kids drawing circles and shapes,

I want them to choose their own colour and draw them carefully

and use the shapes that they like.

After drawing all the shapes they have to paint the whole picture.

This does shows the character of the child and what they prefer and

how patience they are too.

Next the children did a Family Mandala.

They get to think about what each family member like

and prefer. What colour that they

choose for their individual member in the family.

It's interesting to see how they

think and draw things that represent each family member.

Finally, We are making it big!

The children get to cooperate and create a big mandala

using recycle items. Each of the kids get to carefully place

the individual items carefully around in a circle.

I am quite amaze that they already know the concept of mandala;

before I explain, they already know what to do!

Lastly, they are proud of their creation!

It was fun and interesting for them to

play this big mandala game!

 

Thank you all for that participate, we all had fun!

Wording dice game for kids.

Here is something that I have created for my Screen-Free mission!

My 4 year old has started to do some reading and writing,

so I intended to do some revision with her.

This is what I come out with after spotting an

interesting Art dice game! (Which you may want to try too!)

Well nevertheless, this is what I did. 

First I got some black wooden square blocks and

painted them in some pastel colours.

I have 6 different colours for each side.

I asked my 4 year old to help, and she did only the pink!

I did the rest..... lol.

After that I use different colour sharpies to write on the cubes.

I have asked my child simple questions like:

1. How do you feel?

2. What animal do you like?

3. What body parts can you name?

4. What kind of action words you can think of?

5. Name the colour.

6. What kind of pattern you can think of?

7. Name different type of skin for the animals.

8. Describe the sizes.

Well, you can come out with many different descriptions too! 

I also did ask my girl to try to spell simple words.

Of course, she must able to understand all the words written too.

Now, we start playing by rolling

the dice and stacked it up accordingly.

I would help her on the arrangement

of words; which one come first and all.

She just love stacking it up, using

some of the motor skills here too!

After that, I would ask her to copy the sentence on

an exercise book; draw it and colour it!

Also I ask her to read each word accordingly.

She totally enjoyed this and wanted to play again!

So this is the second sentence that she come out with!

I use a lot of descriptions here, but you can try it differently.

Also I might add in some sight words for her to learn as well.

 

I hope this gives you some inspirations!

Thanks for stopping by.

If you try this differently don't mind sharing it here too!

Hermit Crab ~ November (ORG)

It's the month of November again! Time just flies!

We are back again this time with Eric Carle book!

We just love his books, don't we?

The children just love those stories. Lots of questions ask and answered!  

 

Now we had to do some art with it!

We are making handprints and

drawing a hermit crab should not be as hard!

Children just love doing arts!

 

Now here are those lovely artwork!

See how they draw the things relate to the

undersea world...

 

Well, we had our lovely November Baby celebrating her birthday!

Our children just love parties and presents!

We had a mini baby shower for

our 2 lovely mommies,

both are due real real soon!

A boy and A girl coming in soon!!

 

Thanks for all who participated!

Love is on the way....

Summer Sponge Party!

Summer is here!

We had this summer sponge party,

so many spongy activities for the kids to do and have fun!

Do you like sponge too?

See what we do here at our creative playgroup!

Have a spongy day!

We started off with the long spongy art, all of the kids get to

sponge and chop all the different shapes of sponges around!

Over here we are not concentrating on colour but

more on shapes and techniques of

using sponge to make a print on the paper.

Time to sit down and cut!

We have the kids to cut out their own

Sponge Flower Bomb!

They sure loving it.

 It's time to make my sponge boat!

Here they are making their own

sponge sail boat that can float on the water tub!

Great for some bath fun at home.

 Look at my sponge sail boat!

 Last but not least, our final sponge fun!

Here, we have washing with sponge,

and playing with sponge!

*A special note: Almost all children love washing the dishes,

you all can repeat this at home to kill some time!

You just need:

A tub

A sponge

some bath soap

water

Plastic toy plates/ utensils

Apron

 

You know they will love it!

Repeat as often as you can. 

Look at how they play with their own creation, fun right!

they sure know how to play with sponge now.

Once again, we all had spongy fun,

the 2 little ones, you know who you are;

had a really good time sponging and splashing around!

 

Thanks all for participating, see you all again!

Glitter Bling Bling***

Here comes July again.... well, I have been doing this

Creative Art Playgroup (CAP)for a Year now!

So I have decided on the Glitter Bling Bling theme!

Come on, every children loves bling and me too of course. LOL.

We had lots of fun and here are the activities that we have done!

All children loves it so much and we had a blast.

 First, we all started with a glitter dough, the children start from scratch;

which is flour, salt, water and glitter!

They sure love the mess.

As you can see here, they are using the dough to press their hand print

for keepsake. The rest of the dough can make into

different things like elephant, lollipop etc.

and air dry it to stay in shape.

 Secondly, for the glitter art, we have glitter fireworks.

The children love to sprinkle the glitters on the glue;

they all have so much fun doing this.

I personally think this is the most interesting jar for them to make.

All of them could not wait for it to happened; they got so excited and keep on

shaking the jar before I could stop them to add in the water and the glitters!

Lastly, the children need a bit of exercise.

They learn how to hit the balloon and try to poke it so

it will burst off with the glitters and all.

We all had so much fun again.

I know the children love it through the look on their faces;

they were fascinated and happy that what they could do!

 

Thanks again to all that participated!

You all make it happened and merrier.

Farm Animals in June ~ (ORG)

For the month of June, we gather again in this reading group for the theme:

FARM ANIMALS

Thanks to our story teller Ms.Fong.

As usual, we start off with story telling. Here our little children

practice interactive listening;

which is asking questions and learning what the story is about,

in the meantime, the children have to responds to all the questions asked.

Our reader did a good job in posing and answering all the questions.



Next we have some colouring going and

the children learn to identify the different farm animals.

 

Here we are having the Q&A sessions.

We ask the children some simple questions that relate to the

farm animals and they have to identify which animal it was.

All children did a great job in answering the questions.

I hope all children manage to learn something new this time!

We will have more Q&A sessions next time!

 

Thanks to all who participate!

See you all next time.

 

Oh something for all to share.

Animal / Baby

1. Rooster / Chick

2. Sheep / Lamb

3. Duck / Duckling

4. Goat / Kid

5. Cow / Calf

6. Pig / Piglet

7. Dog / Puppy

8. Horse / Foal

Hoo La La Circles

This June we had fun with circles!

I incooperated Wassily Kandinsky colourful circles into our first session art project.

 After introducing Kandinsky and his work to the children,

 they started painting their own version of Kandinsky inspired circles in squares.

 After the painting session, we are making it big this time.

So we do giant artwork by using recycle toilet rolls and caps.

The children enjoy making little circle prints all over the big piece of paper.

After a lot of printing and finger paint the circles,

they got tired a bit but worth the effort, as they are making a big art piece! 

So time for breakfast after all the hard work!

This time they are making round circle Jam sandwiches; yummy!

They are making Mickey Mouse, Puppy Paws... using round cookie cutter!

Oh lastly, we all love balloons,

We made the children write and draw circles on balloons.

Oooo, some of them write their own names on the balloons too!

Yay, we all had fun again.

See you all next time!

Recycling Construction Art

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Here's one of the recent activity that I did with my kid.

I named it Recyling Construction Art.

 

Materials that you need:

 

Any old bottle caps

Toilet rolls

Foil

Different small boxes

Masking tape / any tape

Glue

Colour pencils

 

    What you will need to ask your kid is:

1. What do you want to make?
2. Which material you want to use?
3. What can this make? An eye? A face?
4. Where you want it to be?
5. How you want it to be? Wrap it? Glue it?
6. Do you want to cut these?

Here are some sample questions that you may like to ask your kid, so they can contruct it all by themselves. After all it is for them to create and
use what materials that you have on hand.

Lastly, ask them to draw out what they have construct.

If you like to ask them to draw first then construct is even better.