Valentine Day Craft 4

Today, we did painting of a heart-shape!

MummyT2X guided me on what to do for the first heart and I painted the rest by myself...

Dipping my brush with paint....

I tried to paint my very own heart shape

Next I tried indigo

Slow but steady....

I really need to focus...

Trying to fit the empty space...

Mummy why don't you join me, you can paint the next one said Le Xin!

Okay I will paint the blue heart and you paint the last one lay low said Le Xin

You mean yellow my dear replied Mummy

Doing some touch up....

Nicely done!

Super love this! How many more days to Valentine's Day?

MummyT2X's Reflection:

I thought this was a relatively easy picture to paint but it actually requires a certain level of skill.

Spacial orientation is important in this learning experience nonetheless, I think she did pretty well, good effort baby for being so focused!

By the way, I drew the first heart shape lightly with pencil to get her started, I guess for older kids, they can do it without tracing!

Try this out with your child, he/she can also cut out the heart shape and use it to make a card! 

Valentine Day Craft 3

MummyT2X was busy today but we managed to do one simple heart with Ikea Beads!

Most of the photos she taken were very blur so MummyT2X decided to only post me with the end product!

MummyT2X's Reflection:

This learning experience has provided Le Xin an opportunity to develop her eye hand coordination. She was very patience throughout the whole process and I didn't hear her complaining at all though it was a challenging task for her.

At some point, when she could not fit the bead in, she became a little frustrated and started making a "chek" sound and all I said to her was  "be patient, we can finish this"!

Just trying things out, in my opinion this activity is not very suitable for young children maybe Primary school kids will prefer this :)

Valentine Day Craft 2

MummyT2X did a simple art activity with me this morning for V-Day... You bet! She really wasn't that lazy...Oh well~ 

I painted my heart shape cookie cutter with black paint.....

and printed it on a piece of white paper....

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Feeling happy, I decided to give myself a stamp for being so good!

Mummy I give myself two stamps, one for black heart and one for the green heart said Le Xin

Cute? Meow~

I continued to paint my cookie cutter with different colours, next I dipped my brush into the pink paint...

Getting good at this yea?

Press....

I deserved a stamp for myself again!

After I came back from school, the paint dried up and I decided to draw different faces for my heart shapes...

This heart shape was crying....she had a fall :(

Planning what to draw next....

I am applying what I have learnt about emotions!

I am getting quite sleepy....yawn~ Opps not me, my green heart I mean!

Alright done! I think the pink one looks the happiest... just like me!

Simple craft with big ideas!

Reflection from MummyT2X:

Hey you guys should really try this out, it's fun and extremely easy to do with your child.

 If you do not have a heart shape cookie cutter, just replace it with a toilet roll. I am not kidding, just bend the toilet roll into a shape of a heart and print it with different colored paint.

I know most people would pour a small amount of paint on a small plate and get their child/student to  form the print with it, but I got Le Xin to paint the cookie cutter with a brush, so that she could refine her fine motor skill.

I am glad she could also reinforce her learning about emotions, what I did was to discuss how each heart was feeling and she tried her best to draw how they look like...

I hope this art work gives you some cool inspirations on what to do for V-day

Valentine Day Craft 1

Today MummyT2X did a simple heart shape craft with me....  Let's check out the fun we had :)

As usual, the exact words that I said are in Red!

MummyT2X drew a heart shape on a pink construction paper and I cut it out...

I think my cutting skill has improved!

Let's cut again....

Two pieces, I shall keep one of them in my Atelier for Art and Craft said Le Xin

Let me put some glue on this....

Paste said Le Xin

I can cut this out by myself, let me try said Le Xin

Time to decorate my work, I dipped a cotton bud into my small pot of red paint....

and I form dots around.....I think this is call pointillism - a painting technique 

I made some mistakes but MummyT2X said it's perfectly okay and told me to continue working on my craft...

With much confidence, I finally formed all the dots on the borders by myself so I went on to write the word "Love"

I tried to fill the empty space by decorating it with sequins of many shapes and colours...

Paste!

Tada....nicely done!

Tell me the truth....nice or not, if you think it looks nice you should leave me a comment below!

Not on Facebook because I can't read them in future!

My Masterpiece!

Looking forward to make MORE CRAFTS with my MummyT2X  and I hope she won't be lazy <----I do mean it!

Reflection by MummyT2X:

In this learning experience, the biggest challenge was the part where she had to use the cotton bud to form the dots. It wasn't easy for her but I was well-prepared because I have done similar crafts with my students in the past. Did you notice some dots look out of shapes? She was distracted along the way, and ended up painting instead of dotting. I just had to remind her to dot and yes I kept my cool (Praise the Lord).

I could tell Le Xin was quite worried when she was forming the dots so I demonstrated on another piece of paper and encouraged her that it can be easily done. I said "Just form the dots like this, place the cotton bud on the paper and lift up your arm, if you do it wrongly, don't worry just go on, no big deal, I am sure you can do it, keep trying, jia you bao bei!"

After my demonstration, I could tell she was much more confident!

A great learning experiences for the both of us! 

Try this craft with your child or your students and be amazed by your little artist :)

New Learning Journey With Le Xin!

 Hi everyone, MummyT2X here what going on? I have decided to change the way I blog. I plan to share about what Le Xin and I did for the day, covering several domains of development instead of just focusing on one learning experience! ! How cool is that? I hope that's a better idea because it helps me to reflect on what we have achieved for one whole day :)

Anything highlighted in red will be our voices (as usual)

I bought an exercise book from Popular Bookstore for Le Xin to create her very own Phonic book.

Basically, she will brainstorm words that starts with a particular letter. In her first attempt, she tried to think of words that begin with "a"

Great effort!  

Numeracy - Exploring Number 1 - 10

Identification of numbers!

Number sequencing...

Counting backwards...

Arranging numbers from smallest to biggest followed by biggest to smallest...

Identification of number words....

Picking up a number word when I say the numeral...

Matching numeral to number words...

Project Work - Webbing (Brainstorming of ideas)

 

We discussed what we wanted to do for our project work which is our inquiry on Christmas and we created a web. I wrote the sub topics and Le Xin wrote the ideas we came up with.

To help Le Xin recall some of the stuff we  talked about, I drew some pictures beside the words and she helped out with the colouring of the pics. This is an on-going thing because at the age of 4,  I can't make her write too many words in a day (it will be too boring for her). 

I will share the web when it is done!

Project Work - Christmas Chains (Art and Craft)

After we created our web, we went on to work on our first topic - Colours for Christmas..... Le Xin said green and red while MummyT2X suggested white....

Let's get started!

Cutting of construction paper - green, red and white (refining her fine motor skills)

All done - I am amazed with Le Xin's patience. Yes! She cut these all by herself, it's a lot of work for her to do but she did it! whahaha (evil laugh)

I showed her how to use the staple for the very first time and she was so excited to try it, but it wasn't as easy as she thought :p

Putting construction paper through the ring...

Forming a circle....

Guiding Le Xin to use the staple, this time she got it, nonetheless it took her some time to figure out how to use it :)

Our Christmas Chains....nicely done--- Hooray!

Hanging the Christmas chains in our living room - Bravo!

 Physical - Playing her scooter and having some playground fun

I will do anything to exchange for this smile of hers (literally!) 

Happy Scooting!

Rocking climbing exercise at the playground....

Sliding....

I thought she looks quite funny in this photo haha!

Mummy I am riding my horse again....

Reflection:

Seriously, I have asked myself many times do I have to quit my job to do all these stuff with Le Xin? The matter of fact is  Yes I should and I want to! Most people can never fully understand or resonate with "my why" but one of the most important reason is the time that I can use to spend with Le Xin is just far too precious to me. She is growing up too fast and the time that I used to spend on my previous job had caused me to miss out a lot of fun which I could possibly have with her.
 I am sure you guys can tell by my lack of blogging for the past one year. 

Don't get me wrong, I didn't regret working for the past few months because I am grateful for that job but I just reckon the need to pursue what my heart truly desires. Yes, I do worry about finances, who doesn't? However, there are more important things in my life that I treasure. 
For now, I will just want to do what I strongly believe in and see where God takes me. I do not want to grumble all day long that "I do not have a choice" while being stuck in a job, dreaming that I could be in the playground with Le Xin instead.

Thank you Jesus and praise God for this wonderful time that I can have with my precious baby.
 I hope such happiness will last forever just like a happily ever after story in fairy tales....

Ending this post with Le Xin doing her marvelous scooting... Loving her to bits!