Letter Stamp and Sponge Printing

Letter Stamp and Sponge Printing

Letter stamps 

 Teaching vocabulary in both English and Chinese.

The Science in the Art

The Science in the Art 

The Science in the Art is where I use art as the basis to teach simple science concepts. 

Activity 1

Concept: Water Resistence ( Waterproofing) 

Activity: Paint a picture with the knowledge that wax has waterproof property.

What you need: Wax crayons, drawing blocks, water colour. 

Use wax cryaons to draw the images.

Colour with water colour.

Activity 2
Coffee and Tea Painting

Concept: Tea and Coffee stains because of the chemical-tannin. Lemon juice can help to bleach. 
Activity: Make a little of thick tea and paint a crocodile’s body with it. Then, make a little bit of coffee and use it to draw the details or decorate the crocodile. Finally, use lemon juice to bleach and make some parts of the crocodile lighter. 
Observation: Coffee stains more than tea and lemon juice makes the colour of the coffee/tea lighter. 
Conclusion: Coffee contains more tannin than tea. And next time, you can always use lemon juice to remove coffee or tea stains on your shirt.

The darker parts are painted with coffee. The lightest parts are painted with lemon juice. This art piece smells totally like coffee.

Activity 3

Concept: The human eyes can store a picture for a few seconds after seeing it. 
Activity: Making a spinner. Cut 2 squares and draw a fish tank on one of the square and a fish on another square. 

Then tape 2 straws and pieces of thread behind the picture and glue the picture of a fish tank onto the back of the upside-down fish. 

Then twist the thread tight and finally letting it go and you will see the fish in the tank as the picture spins.

Activity 1-3 are ideas taken from an activity book.

Activity 4
Concept: Solid and liquid.

Activity: Making our own slime -Is slime solid or liquid?? 

Ingredient: Cornflour, cold water and a few drops of food dye. 
Just mix them all together until you get the slime effect.

Observation: Emmanuel realised that slime feels solid when he squeezes it but it flows out of his hands when he just hold it on his palm.

Conclusion: He says that slime is both a solid and liquid.

Emmanuel just likes to observe how the slime flows through his fingers. Highlight to the child that liquid flows.

Faith ( 8 months old) is trying to squeeze the slime and she realized that it is hard and solid.
This slime is baby safe too.

 It's not messy and easy to clean up as the slime will turn into flour when it dries up and all you need to do just add more cold water.

Activity 5
Concept: soluble or insoluble, solution or mixture.
Things you need: some salt crystals, sand and anything you can find in your kitchen. Paper towels can be used as filter paper too.

mixing the substance with water.

 pouring the solution/mixture into the filter paper.

Observing.

writing down her observation.

This simple recording sheet just creating by me as I felt that it was important to teach her to record her observation.

Flower Art

Flower Art

A bouquet of flowers.

A rose made of yellow coloured paper, with pink crepe paper at the center and a straw for the stalk. 

 Made from crepe paper.

Cut a stripe of crepe paper. fold the stripe into several layers. Cut the zig zag patterns. roll the stripe together by holding on to the bottom. 

Orchid- Made from crepe paper.

Cut out the shape for each petal. Then use scrotch tape to tape them together at the bottom. 

 Daisy- Made from Tissue Paper, coloured with yellow highlighter at the center.

Cut out the shape for each petal. Then use scrotch tape to tape them together at the bottom. 

 Lily- Made from coloured paper and tissue paper.

Cut out the shape for each petal. Then use scrotch tape to tape them together at the bottom. 

once you are done with flowers. Use straws to make a stalk for each of them. 

Then arrange them into a vase.

3D Art and Craft

3D Art and Craft 

Multi-media art encourages creativity in the child. I usually give them some random materials that I can find in my art and craft cupboard and the kids never fail to amaze me with their creativity. Here are some of their creations. 

In the Garden (2+ yr old)

Fairy Land (5yrs old)

For my older girl, I encouraged her to write down what she has created so that she can increase her vocabulary and at the same time learn spelling too.  

 Pencil Shaving Art (7 yrs old)

One day, I was just sharpening the colour pencils and my daughter came and suggested using the pencil shaving. I gave her the pencil shaving and this was what she created. 

Play dough Art  ( 1 yr old)

 3D pop up card (7yr old)

Polar Bear (4 yr old)

Cut a hole in the middle of the paper plate. Stick a clear plastic to cover the hole. Cut out the polar bear and stick on another paper plate. decorate the background. Add some "snow" in. Stick the two paper plates together.

Winter ( 5 yrs old)

Created with black and white clay and play dough. 

A writing task for his creation. 

Mini Monster Burger

 Mini Monster Burger

Step 1: get the ingredients ready..

ingredient list: 

egg tofu 
bun
cheese
spinach
carrot
white bait
fillet chicken
pork
threadfin fish
eggs
1 strawberry

Making the patty 
Step 2: steam the carrot until it's soft
Step 3: blend the chicken, fish, pork, tofu, carrot and white bait until it's very fine.
step 4: chop up the spinach and add into the mixture.
Step 5: beat half an egg( both egg yoke and white) into the mixture and mix until even.

Do Not add any sauces into the mixture.

step 6: add a little butter into a pan. put a spoon of the meat mixture into the pan and fry until cooked. the patty should look like this in the end.

step 7: add a little butter on the pan and fry an egg

step 8: assemble the burger. follow this sequence

bun
egg
cheese
patty
cheese
egg
bun..

step 9: cut the strawberry and use it for decoration

Quilling Fun

Quilling Fun

Fun at home on a lazy Satuarday. Quilling is really easy. It encourages creativity and is also an activity that allows the child to practice fine motor skill. 

Simple quilling: 

Simply find strips of construction paper. Get your child to help you roll it up and then simple shape it. 

 Then, glue the different colours and shapes together to form your desired image. For us, since we are learning about insects, our quilling theme is insects. So Faith wanted to make: Bumblebee, caterpillar, dragonfly, grasshopper, butterfly and spider.

For the bubblebee and dragonfly, I actually have to stick different coloured strips together before rolling them.

Happy Faith with her work. Of course, Mummy helped her with the shaping while Faith helped to roll the paper and glue them.