Making A Wind Sock!

It's time to craft with Le Xin again. Guess what? We gonna make a wind sock together. Le Xin had no idea what's a wind sock was but she certainly was quite excited when I told her we were going to make one!

Let's get started.....

Firstly, let's choose two colours....hmmm how about pink....

And black too!

Scooping the pink paint and putting it into the tray...

Next, the black paint too!

Time to put two rolling balls...

Let's give the tray a good shake.....

Observing her masterpiece....

Nice or not?

A close up shot of what she did! We going to use this as a wrapping paper for our windsock :)

After allowing the paint to dry for a night, we worked on our mini project again the next day!

Yes, we going to get it going.......

First up let's roll the wrapping paper to wrap the kitchen roll....

Holding the paper tightly while wrapping.....What good skills you have Le Xin :)

MummyT2x gave a helping hand while Le Xin tried to attach a piece of scotch tape on it...

Little Hands @ Work...

Look just how serious my darling girl was.....

Hooray almost done.....

Last part was to apply glue on the picture strips.

And attached them to the kitchen roll....

I can do it said Le Xin confidently....

When it was all done......she started swinging her windsock.....

A very proud mummy who decided to hang our work up high.....near the window! Cool :)

Collaborative work often speaks volume isn't it?  This is not just a simple craft work. It can also be used to investigate the weather phenomena. We can always bring the windsock out, have a run and use it to find out the direction of the wind. Hmm...sounds like a great idea right?

 What I really like about our windsock was it looks quite special because we made our own wrapping paper to wrap it. We could have simply used a  commercial wrapping paper or a construction paper but we chose to design our own wrapping paper instead with the technique of rolling ball painting so that more skills were integrated along the process.

The big idea is.......Always have a careful thought about what you would like to do with young children and you will discover the joy that comes with it :) 

Ending this post with a happy photo of my baby!

Somehow.... she began holding a ladle with another hand and I thought she looked quite funny so the both of us began laughing loudly at each other whahaha :)