Arts @ home

Finally i find time to start the canvas painting for missy. I bought this canvas painting from ELC some months back..

She loves it.. but i find it messy all the shinny paper flying all over.

Shall showcase it at home , her first canvas painting @ 3years 2 months old.

Sand Art- Barney the purple dinasour

Few weeks back we saw the sand art in shopping centre, it is is $12 per piece, which we thought is super expensive. Lucky we did not proceed on that day, as missy is crying, wanted to play with it. the sales pady keep pertering us.. which i hate.
most !

Today i saw the sand art at ntuc at just $2.90 so i quickly ask misys choose the pattern she likes, of course she chose parney over Dora..

so we had our first sand art with her favourite charatcter- Barney !

Here we go..

Missy is so excited and curious on how to get started, i guide her along, get her to help me to peel the sticker.. then pour the coloured sand onto it.. then clear the sand after we completed one portion..



She is following me throughout till we completed the whole picture. the final product was fantastic .. the background colour was a mixture of all colours we have left over. haaa.



i have showcase her work on her art area. she loves her barney !

Missy Arty Arts

It's been a month since my last post of missy's darwing and painting and we haven been doing much art work together..

So, here are her painting/drawing and our art work together in August

This is her flower.. actually im impressed with this.. it does look like flower with petals..



these are her another form of drawing.. she told me.. she is writing.. she like to write like scribbling the third picture on the left..on papers and calendar.. i ask her what is she sriting she said she is writing a b c..so imagine my calendar full with her "writing"




I get missy to do some pasting for me.. we are making numbers on stick..



missy very hard working on her tasks.. while didi busy playing on his play gym.. haa.. love to see them together


we have completed our numbers on stick.. missy matching each number to her block number.. she is very good at matching already.. now i get her to say the numbers out.. she is better now.. she can recognise most of them but confuse with 6 & 9 and 8 she keeps saying number 8 is letter B. mm.. quite similar wor..




SO, one useful activity completed on weekend.

Missy & her Palm Art

Missy loves to do palm art.. she will colour her palm then print it on paper..i drew a penguin for her to colour actually, but she is more interested to print her palm..

recently, OKTO is showing sesame street at 8am. so we have been following almost every weekend, this week was about letter "O', number "7" and penguin. it's very educational. but i wont consider buying their DVD cos wat's the point of buying if the same DVD is repeating the same letter/number? we are better off wathing it on TV on weekends since it's always different and free haaa..



i showcase some of her more mature art work.. including her palm print. she is very engrossed with being a dinasours lately. she is posing as a dinasour to me on the photo..with her messy coloured claws.

missy has been asking lots of questions recently.. she will ask me " mummy, what are you doing ? " when i explain to her what im doing, maybe taking things, reading newspaper (which she can see what im doing actually), she will reply "ohh..".. then when she sees me doing something else, she will ask again "mummy what are you doing" or "mummy, where are you going ?".. and she loves to ask "What is this?" many many times.. either things from book, things from TV.. things she see outside.. etc etc.. i wonder.. she did not ask me so much of "Why" .. but "What".. so, i will instead ask her "Why"...she will try to answer me.. but most of the times none related to the WHY question i ask.. haaa

she now knows the answer for "How old are you?" last time when we ask her this question, she will reply her name. now she knows the answer is "i am three years old" eventhough, she usually answer just "Three" and she now knows when someone says "Thank you" you usually reply "You are Welcome" which she answer just "Welcome" now.. heee..

she is still testing her boundaries at home, things i ask her not to do, she will continue to do, till i flare up or i just the " 1, 2, 3".. she will quickly stop it. and she knows after mummy angry, she has to say "Im sorry mummy" and she usually will come to me for a hug, indicating i stil love her and want to play with her.. she will sometimes ask this question to get some comfort "You want to play with me ?" if i say "No" she will cry or feel sad (after i angry due to her mischievious and ignore her).. so usually i will say "Yes" so that she feels i have forgiven her.

really must have lots of patience handling toddler's behaviour..i tend to raise my voice a lot which i really really hope i can control it and talk to her nicely when she is disobeying things..as i notice she imitates me a lot.. Oh no.. i cant be a good example ! im still learning to be a better parent !


Long journey in parenting!

Sandwich from missy

Missy came back from school with her self-made sandwich from school last week. she is so eager to eat it

when i ask her what is this ? she kep saying "triangle" instead of "sandwich". mm..she then open up the sandwich.. Oh my.. what's these ? it's apple and pumpkin seed.. what a unique sandwich filling.. haaa.. i think the teacher gave them few choices and they choose what they want as the filling.



well done my girl !

Missy & her painting

Missy loves to do painting.. she always requesy " mummy, i want to do painting.." so i have to take out her colouring materials and let her have fun..

she will darw something and tell me , mummy see.. see.. this is big fish, this is small fish.. which is correct, she draws something fish-liked shapes, one bigger than another..wow.. impressive.



then she will draw her banana again, and tell me, mummy, i draw banana.. and just past few days, she drew rain drop thing with broken lines from top to bottom, which she descibed it as raining.. and she drew many dots from top to bottom, which she described it as rain drops.. mm.. my girl can relate things she sees into her painting more vividly now..

usually, i will help her to add more things into her painting like i will add some cloud, and add lighting (zig zag ).. she will then ask me to draw more things.. haa.. we now will draw house, with triangle as roof and rectange/square as house..

it's getting fun to get missy into doing her painting/drawing, we started with finger paint, now, it evolves into more actual drawing and painting.. cool !

she also can recognise more colours now.. primary colour like red/yellow/blue, secondary colour like green/purple/orange.. she still mix up sometimes, but i m sure she will get them right in no time.

she can recognise A, B, C, D (caps) and also their sounds, she knows other letter's sound, but not the letter itself, so i, still trying to teach her as she sometimes mix up like E & F, she always say E is F..haa..

After that, shall let her try on numbers 1 to 10. SM suppose to know all these, but missy hates her dots cards. wonder why..hope she wont hate maths.

Missy and her Painting

Missy started to play her finger paint last weekend, look at how she enjoys it, i let her play with the ready mix colour too. she really have a goof time !

Missy @ 30 month-old

recently , missy seems to like to arrange things using blocks.. she will stacj up two rows of blocks side by side vertically and bring it to me and tell me, mummy, see, see house..

yesterday, she uses her melissa & dough block to make chair.. after she arranged, she tell me, mummy, chair.. mm.. looks like chair wor.. so i bring one of her ducky toy and sit on it.. she is so excited and she later sit on it herself.. well.. you can imagine what happne la.. the "chair" collapse.. haaa..




sunday, she is requesting for painting session, since we have our term break from shichida, she is very free at home making so much fusss. sometimes really cannot stand toddler this age.. soosos fussy.. and she seems to cry easily with little bit of things, VERY EMOTIONAL.. she will keep requesting for things which she knows we will say no.. then she will start her howling... we simply pulling our hairs out with her "strange" behaviour..

so, ler her do some painting... she press the colours, use the brush.. paint paint paint.. then she tell me.. mummy, fireworks.. whihc really looks like fireworks as she presses the brush onto the paper.. good job !



she is getting better at relating things from her knowledge.. my 2.5 year old.. always cute but naughty as her daddy always said.. heee

Some Creativity on weekend

Trying to keep missy busy with some arts & craft.. so, decided to make some animals with ice cream stick and put them on our plants pots..

While i prepare the drawing and cutting, missy is busy with gluing on cardboards..she even use the ice cream stick to apply the glue on the boards.



we have tiger (cos tiger year), piglet (cos missy loves piglet), panda (i just find it cute from website) and bear sitting on cloud (find it cute )

after we are donw, we just put the animals onto the flower pots.. now we have two butterflies, one bird, two tigers, two piglets, one panda, one bear in our corridoor garden...

nice

Weekday Activities- 1st week of July

Half year gone..fast. neeway, missy is growing very fast too. she now talk in 2 sentence words. she will say bird sleeping.. mummy eat.. papa get up.. popo shishi(when mum in toilet) etc etc. i really lost count of how many words she can say..

This week, we revisit the matching game which missy is not interested last time,. this time round, i just showed her once and she got the hint of how to play. i gave her only one board with "fruits" to match. she did it all by herself and surprised me by getting all correct.. i somehow tot.. mm.. by chance la.. ask her do again.. she is very cooperative and did it once more all correct.

but, today when i change the topic to attire /clothing, she is not so intersted now.. maybe we will revisit this game.

I let her do it on her own, she is interested.


after she is done, i checked, wowo.. all correct, my little smarty. the orientation of the picture may not correct but the fruits matches the shadow. Great effort my missy ! at 21 months it's a good achievement. somehow i think could it be Shichida method ? whatever it is, i m glad to see such result.




Then, we wont miss our arts session. this round, i jst lay the mahjong paper on floor and let her play with the water colours.. she need not wait for my instruction and just splash.. brushh.. sqeeze.. splatter.. so concentrating.. until i have to tell her.. ok.. time to go to bath...

next round, we shall play with crayons and water colour.. great combination..


She filled up the paper with my help..master piece..


Great week. shall do some stringing next week.to train her concentration and of course im lacking on my linkinh memory. sigh got tot starttt..

Weekday Activities - paste & colour

Today, we did our weekly worksheet by SM. I cut the snake into two, then missy do the pasting, which include applying the glue, then we colour the snake.

There are many things i wanted to do still, which i find myself too exhausted last week (stupid migrain attack). got to gear up and prepare some fun activities for missy.. introduce her things like heavy/light, Big/small (taught in class on Sunday) before i forget and lost track on these..

Some of the books we borrowed from library on sat, i like the itsy bitsy spider, but missy does not seem to enjoy the story.

Missy knows how to sing "xiao chu" & "twinkle little star" now, not the whole songs, but the first phase and all the last words. very very cute when she sings, shall video it next time.

This week we read some books on animals in zoo.

Our weekly activities updates

Seems like the easel we bought is really useful. Missy can do her scribbling comfortably without the need to bend and all. Still a proper gadget should be used for children's activities..



I let her scribble and scribble.. and i started to notice besides straight lines.. she can do wavy lines..i shall take a closer snap next time..Yesterday when we did the drawing, i did one thing different,i bundle up few crayons with rubber band and let missy hold and scribble.. * pick this idea from a mummy* but missy prefer to take it out.. the rubber band simply fascinated her.. *eyes rolling*



We did some finger painting too and some felt games. The end product of this week as posted.. heee..



some snaps for my bread.. like model like that.. this week i baked three bread actually, one wholemeal, two milk loaf..i want to make kaya this weekedn too.. lalala..love to bake..

Ikea again

Today we went Ikea again.. not for their chicken wing this time, for Missy's Easel. I've been hesitated to get her the easel.. cos we were thinking maybe we don't need it after all ? arts can be done one table/ floor or my present way -- > mahjong paper pasted on our living room glass door..

one mummy in our weekly class told me it's useful, her daughter loves it to scribble and draw on the easel.. th hight is just right etc.

well..ok la.. we shall get one for missy too.. anyway, we have the voucher for it ! so off we went to get her the easel and also (i can never leave a shop with just THAT thing i intended to buy) some clips.. and mum got her the tent...

so, her toys is getting flooded now.. whole house.. 1/3 her things..

so lucky to be children nowadays..so LGG & i also join misys into her tent today.. heee..

Finger Paint - Arts

we did finger arts again last weekend. Missy finally let me put on the arts overall for her. this is to prevent her clothes from getting all the colours and wet.

She simply loves and enjoy the mess.. well.. i enjoy seeing her playing with the colours too. cleaning was a breeze. just wet tissues and all clean.



After our finger play and showing her arts product and pasted it on our balcony glass door, we continue with water play, Gave her the sponges and also her sand pit tools. she scoops the water from small pail to basin and vice versa. Good hand eye coordination.



CHildren simply loves paint and colour. Missy is no exception !

Arts @ home

Bought the finger paint from popular on saturday. Let missy play with it. It's a new "toys" for her.. she is enjoying it. and lucky ting this finger paint is washable, really good. i can just use wet tissues and wipe all the stain away.

easily clean away and non toxic. missy never put into her mouth. which is something im worried abt when introducing colours to her. she will be out-grown this habit pretty soon.




I shall get easel for her soon, just cant find time to go down to ikea recently.

My missy eating bread that as big as her face.. cutey. mum bought for her on Sunday.