His drawing

I found little r's drawing on his table. It's cute and hilarious at the same time, love them all.
Wishing you have a great week ahead.

Welcoming December

Oh, December! Here you are, and I made this little buntings to welcome you and wish you would stay a little longer...

Denim jeans colored pencil holder

My latest making - standard size colored pencil holder in denim jeans. Almost similar to this jumbo colored pencil holder I make sometime ago. A must have in kids art supplies tools.

Leave print bookmark

Completed two scrapbooks to be passed up in a week is a heavy task for a mum. On the other hand, it put my artistic side into good use whilst having really limited time for sit and think. I've included a few leave prints into the books under Go Green section. Because of not having enough leaves in the study room, we make more today and included a Chinese poem at the back of each leave. Memorizing these poems for a grade 2 student is another big task, oh gosh. But learning should be fun instead of painstaking, right? And I'm hoping to see that 'fun' taking place soon. Keep fingers crossed.
But as I see those leaves, I'm getting like'in it ; ) art and craft project from nature thing is inspiring. Also, this is the shape of collar in this kebaya dress, the sirih shape.

Functioning woven bag

Sometimes when my home is full of this woven bags, I don't know what to do with it especially when it is printed with some specific name of the event. It's kind of embarrassing if you carry it along right? So, my kids and I thought of this potato print project to transform this whole bag into a new functional yet artful shopping bag.


We measured the size of the printed logo on the woven bag, then cut a piece of plain fabric that will be used to cover the whole printing area. Then, we started to work on the fabric by geting the kids to paint some arcylic paint onto their cut potato or apple, then stamp it over the right side of the fabric that will also be used as the front pocket of the bag.




After the paint dried, I overedge sewn the fabric and hand stitched with arty saturday wording before actually machine sewn it onto the bag. Now, I would happily let my kids carry along this newly converted shopping bag whenever we go to shop ; )

Teacher Appreciation Day

A rose for you, teacher - my children's teacher to be specific.
The person who always nurture, teach and guide.
Happy Teacher's Day.

Kids craft of Valentine's Day

Taking the advantage of celebrating February as the month of love; I introduced this craft activity - wall hanging deco. to children of my friends who are under my coach once in a week. And also trying to expose them with early start for Quotable Quotes, they would had to choose from a list of quotes which they like most and write it down on the strip of paper given. This is the sample of our work... so my assurance for them are there is hope and there is love around from family & friends. Happy Valentine's Day!

Hazy sky in Penang

The sky is blanketed with thick haze these 2 days. Besides the cooking lesson - teaching him to fry an egg, we did some craft at home to avoid outdoor activity. Ryan was cooperative enough to do his work...


he colored and stick on the decorative cut out...


this one, he put on the cut out that I coloured...supposed should be done by Russell, end up to be the mader's craft...

Customizeable Shopping Bag - A Greener World

It has been long time we don't play with colors and brushes. While still in the mood, I decided to be creative with the tote bag sewn recently along with No Plastic Bag campaign started recently.

In Penang, we declared Monday as a day without plastic bag - so, be a Plastic Bag Free person! I lauded the move, hope you will too. And to prove further more that I'm a pro-environmental person, I gave tote bags to my father, mother, sisters, brothers, sister-in-law....... and make sure they are reducing in using plastic bags.

This is our piece of art project this morning...




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Weekly Craft: Mini Kite

We do mini kite for this week's craft.

You need:
Old newspaper,
Lidi stick / josstick stick
Glue
Glittering wrapping paper
Holder stick with threat


I was thinking to make more of it to fly the kite together with neighbours children. My place here is always windy as we're nearby the sea, opposite our house around 600m away i guess....

Coloured Pasta Kids Craft

This is my activity with kids for this week's craft session. Ryan wore his necklace to Tesco for our weekly marketing ^_^ He is proud of his own craft.



It was a challenge for me in every art & craft project, need to handle one 3yo and one 4yo with different pace of development in controlling the their hand movement. Sometimes, the paint not go to the pasta but their hair instead... grrhhh....

Here's the roller-coaster session....

Bunny Painting

Found this craft material from a local store. Since my boys don't like to do colouring, I let them colour on a purpose - paint the bunny.

Materials:
2 unit Clay bunny & arcylic paints.

No appetite after you see their rabbit. .. you know la, boy do craft work....

Name Hanger

Some little cute handicraft caught my attention, this is the latest one that I found. Bought the packed craft kit with customised name.

Good to hang at kid's room. It is Sweet right...