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!

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! 

Christmas Party in December (ORG)

Our Reading Group Theme: Christmas!

 

This time all children will have

a mini Xmas Party after the reading sessions!

 

All the stories are related to Christmas!

After the reading sessions, we have a singing sessions,

the children are happy to sing the Jingle Bell song.

Now it is the guessing game. The children get to feel inside

the Xmas Stocking and describe what it feels like, and also guess what it is! 

 See each of them have fun feeling it and guess what it is.....

 After the guessing game, each of the children get to decorate the Xmas tree;

they will each have an ornament to hang on the tree,

thanks to Mommy Pei Aik for the ornaments! 

 

Oooo.... after that, this is what all the children has been waiting for... presents!

All stockings are hang near the tree, and each mommies get to place a presents for all the children;

you are right, all children got at 6 presents each!

Here is the book swapping session!

All children are happy with the mini Xmas Party!

Oh I forgot, we get to name Santa's Reindeer and have a go at drawing it too!

 

Thanks again to all parents who attended, it was real fun for the children!

Origami Christmas Fun in December

We are happy that Ms.Cherly Loh is able to come over and show the kids how to do Origami the fun way. As some of you may have know, she is the expert in this field! First Origami Guru in Malaysia. She has mastered her skills in Origami for many years in Japan. We are so happy to have her teaching the children!

 All the kids are having fun making different things, we have two sessions, one for the younger kids, and another for the older children! They all have much fun doing it; especially the younger ones as it is their first attempt doing Origami!

 The kids are happy to show off their creativity!

 Here the older children are having their go on the Origami! Concentrating hard!

 Second activity that we are doing is writing a personal letter to Santa Claus,

asking for their favourite toys... etc.

See they do their best colouring and writing!

 Here the letter......... so sweet!

 Now, time for Xmas Goodies Jar!

This acitivity is to let the children use their 5 senses.

First the need to see, then smell the ingredients. They need to recognise them individually.

Then they get to use their fine motor skills to scoop each ingredients into the Jar.

See how they do it properly! 

 Now, they get to shake the jar, having some fun you see....

 

 Last but not least, they get to taste it!

So by now they will recognise the individual ingredients

with no problem!

Oh, they love it so much, cannot stop helping themselves too!

 

Time for gift exchange! A bit of chaos.... as there are so many children and less time!

But they were all happy singing Jingle Bells and opening their gifts!

They just could not wait till Christmas I guess!

 

 So they all are happy with their presents!

Did we all have fun?

Of course! Thanks for all mommies who help make this playgroup happening!

 



Xmas Breakfast Goodies Jar

For December activities, we did Xmas Goodies Jar for the kids to have fun! It was really interesting to see them get so excited and they love it!
Click Here if you would like the recipe, as I adapted it form Martha Stewart Living, December 2006 .

Well for the dried fruits you can always improvised; I added Raisins and Sultanas too for the children. They love it! Hope they all will have a wonderful breakfast!