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!

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!

 

 

All about Insects...

In May, we attended a bugs workshop organised by Jungle classroom.

There are lots of activities for the children to understand and play.

It is mostly outdoor fun for all parents and kids!

Well here you can see that the tutors are reading a book

and explaining how the Hungry Caterpillar

is roaming around and eating all those food!

After explaining all the details about insects and how to identify a bug,

the children get to go off and catch one.

Later, they also make a colourful caterpillar.....

Do some exercise, play some games

and lastly, visit a pig farm!

Awesome!