Do you advocate the need for Water Play?

 

One of her "Corridor Fun" haha Le Xin enjoys water as much as Mummy does! She simply likes to scoop the water and pour it into another container. Transferring water often provides Le Xin an opportunity to understand the properties of water.

 

She is also beginning to use simple tools like funnel to aid her in her exploration!

 

I wonder how many parents or educator out there are also a big advocate when it comes to waterplay?

 

Do you provide opportunity for your child to play with water too?

 

What kind of materials do you add into the water to provide more sensory experience? I used small blue crystal liked stones that I bought from Daiso they are beautiful and Le Xin likes to put them in and pretends to cook them as ingredients for her "soup".

 

Mummy can you play with me is what Le Xin likes to say each time she engages in water play, in fact in any play actually, a part of me always feel so good that she offers to play with me :) Sometimes I really wish to have time to myself but we know it's definitely hard to reject a heartbreaking smile don't we?



Making Chun Lian and Firecrackers for CNY!

As part of Chinese New Year celebration, Le Xin made a simple Chun Lian (春联)  - 吉 which means lucky and some firecrackers too! Let's take a look at how she made them :)

 

Let's paint the background first!

 

As not to waste our limited supply of paint, Mummy decided to use yellow food colouring instead! Putting a ring of scotch tape to prevent the bottle from toppling :)

 

Dipping the brush in!

 

Painting the drawing board....

 

While waiting for the paint to dry, let's work on the firecrackers!

 

Le Xin applied the glue while Mummy helped with the wrapping of the toilet rolls...

 

Let's paint the toilet rolls now!

 

In the afternoon the drawing board had dried up and Mummy helped to write the word 吉on it :)

 

Applying glue....

 

Le Xin pasted the strips of paper( cut out from red packets) on the lines of the word.

 

Le Xin's little hands have grown so much bigger, no longer my baby drumlets!

 

Conciously making the effort not to paste out of the line. I paste on the line said Le Xin!

 

Please tell me you going to help me display this okay?

 

Bribing Mummy with her sweet smile!

 

 

Hooray!

 

Engaging children in craft work is one of the best way to encourage them to express their creativity, at the same time it also helps them to understand the need to keep on trying. Le Xin's concentration span during each art and craft session never fails to amaze me and seriously I really enjoy working with her too! A part of me always feel like I hope my parents did these stuff with me when I was younger but it's not too late for I am thankful that each day of my life I am given the chance to teach and learn from my baby Le Xin :) Hopefully in future, I will also have more opportunities to engage in crafting with my students too!

 

Ending my post with this photo which I like very much because it tells me a story!

 

I left the red firecrackers that we did on the table at our Mini Atelier along side with some Chinese New Year stickers. One afternoon, I spotted Le Xin peeling the stickers to decorate the firecrackers! When she saw me she said Mummy I want to paste my stickers... It's was truly inspiring how Le Xin could use the materials which I set out to construct her own knowledge and work on her ideas!

 

Ciao, hope you like this post!

Making Mandarin Oranges for CYN!

Mandarin Orange is definitely one of the yummy food that most of us love to eat during Chinese New Year..... When we go for house visiting, we would usually bring along two Mandarin oranges to exchange with our relatives or friends. To introduce the concept of celebrating CYN with Mandarin Oranges, I decided to engage Le Xin in this simple crafting activity - Making Mandarin Oranges!

 



These are the materials I need!

 

First up, crushing of newspaper!

 

Looks easy? You must be kidding, I need to use a lot of my strength you know?

 

Wrapping my newspaper ball with a piece of paper

 

Ohh no!!! I have to crush it again :p

 

Hooray, time to paint!

 

Let's paint the top first......

 

Concentration!

 

 

Le Xin in action!

 

Yeah! I am done :)

 

Culture can be expressed through clothing, currency, music, language, food, arts and etc....Sometimes by engaging in a simple crafting activity, it helps to reinforce certain concepts you wish to introduce to your little ones. The Mandarin oranges that we have created will be used as part of our Chinese New Year provocation, they can be used for role-playing too :) Time to end this post with a cute photo of my darling girl.....

 

Do you want to eat these?

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Eh........haha maybe not you can enjoy them Le Xin :p