A simple mum who believes in giving her children the ability to enjoy simple things in life…
I love snow! But, we do not have snow in Singapore. The first time my kids see and feel snow in Sweden was also my first experience. We were amazed at how snowflakes were formed on the window pane and even more amazed at how different patterns of snowflakes are formed depending on temperature. Continue reading “Christmas craft – Make your own paper snowflakes”
It’s December and we are counting down to Christmas!! I wanted to make some art and craft with my kids for this wonderful holiday when I chanced upon this!
A Wee Nest had started a project called 12 DIY Pins of Christmas and Continue reading “Christmas craft – Christmas tree card”
All mummies should have a ready stock of art and craft supplies for “rainy days”. Yes, rainy days or days when unexpected events happened, and you have to stay home with your kids. So, I really have to thank the mummy blogger at Ingspirations who shared her simple salt art idea and it saved my day when the kids were bored and had nothing to do at home.
The first intriguing thing that struck me was how salt can turn colour so easily by twirling a chalk or in my case, we ran out of chalk, and used pastel colours from Daiso. Continue reading “Simple art and craft – Salt Art”
I have not been doing art and craft with my kids for quite some time, mainly because I am usually very tired after work and we have lots of outdoor activities during the weekends with the kids. But, today, I am on leave from work because I need to take care of my baby and my P2 girl since all Primary 1 to 5 kids have 2 days break due to PSLE (Primary School Leaving Examination) Oral. With such a good opportunity to enjoy a day of stay-at-home-mum, I planned so many activities today with XX, I am now rather dead beat while typing this post. However, the thought of sharing my joy of enjoying an afternoon of art and craft, I do have the motivation to write this post and publish tonight.
So, when XX asked what we could do together this afternoon, I quickly searched in my art and craft box for ideas. Seeing a pack of colourful ice-cream sticks, I decided to make a Rainbow Box out of them. Continue reading “Simple art and craft – Rainbow Box”
Ever since I brought my kids to their very first art class in Wow Art Studio (see my post “Art can be so beautiful“), I realized that black paper really gives amazing effect to a drawing in pastels. Hence, while I was shopping in Daiso, a $2 storewide shop in town, I saw that they sell pastels and it gave me the idea of getting some black construction papers for my kids to draw on.
YH, at his age of 6, loves to draw Dinosaurs. XX, at her age of 8, loves to draw Butterflies.
With this pastels that resemble chalk, it can get a little messy with little hands rubbing against the drawn pictures as they move their hands around the paper. Luckily, as the paper is black in colour, the messiness does not look as obvious as it is on white paper.
After they have completed their colourful drawings on black papers, I framed them up and asked the kids to use window markers to decorate the boring white border.
Here is how it looks like! Great colour contrast against black background!
We had an afternoon of fun with this simple art work.
Now, this frame is up on our living room wall as a proud piece of decoration.
Try it with your kids!