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!

Pizza Time in August ~ (ORG)

In August, Our Reading Group decide to have a

Pizza Making session.

We are teaching the children how to read a recipe.

All the children are getting just a little too excited!

They could not wait for it to begin. 

Here we are giving out the recipe sheet and teach them how to read it.

Also here, introducing them the ingredients and smelling it too!

 

The kids start by spreading the tomato paste on top of the dough.

Here we have them spread the ham on top of the pizza.

Just love to see how they spread  the ingredients;

which they call it decorate their pizza.

Also one just have to try the ingredients too right?

See how I spread the cheese on top.

That's a lot of cheese though.

 

I love my pizza and see how I do it.

Lots of cheese eh, that's how I like it!

 

Ready for the oven.

We are going to get it baked!

 

Here's the outcome.

Would you like one too?

Try it yourself at home,

It's fun to make.

 

Thanks to all who participate,

I know you will love to do this 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.

Rub-A-Duck-Tub

 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!

Little Baby Chefs

Here at CAP, we have organised a mini Baking Class for all our members. Chef Alex and Vanessa from Ete cafe has agreed to hold a few classes to accomodate us all, as space are limited! After much discussions we have arrange it into 3 classes. All little chefs get to participate and all mothers will stand by and become their helper, sounds fun eh? Here we have our Chef Alex who is from Taiwan and learnt Pastry skills in France, explaining to all of us how to prepare and make cookies!

 

 As you can see, here all the mommies are helping their little chefs. Little chefs also enjoying making the cookie dough.

 

Doing it myself.....

 

We are learning how to make the cookie dough, mixing, squeezing, rolling.

See how I do it.... am moulding the cookies.

 

Now decorating the cupcakes..... myself!

Concentrating hard on the designs....

 

Need some help from mummy! 

 

Yummy yum delicious!

 See what we make! Finally it is out!

 Now you see, our cookies are done! Yay!

 

Special thanks to Chef Alex and Vanessa, all mommies and children had so much fun!

 

 

Coming Soon!

Latest news for CAP members, from September onwards there will be no more CAP meetups untill later in December. The reason is I am going to deliver soon and with a baby in hand, there will be loads of things for me to do. The wise choice is to stop the CAP activities for the moment.

Do not worry as coming up in December, we will see some new fun stuff for the children in CAP.

Meanwhile, near the end of August, I will try to organize a children baking class for all CAP members. If you are interested, do let me know. The venue and time will be announce once I got the details from the Pastry Chef. Again, limited seats only as Baby chefs are fun and messy! There will be a certain fee imposed, and again I need to discuss with the Pastry chef for a suitable price.