Friendly Spider

How about an itsy bitsy spider for our playgroup craft session?

Here's the materials:

• Sugar paper (A4 size)
• Pencil
• Colour paper (white, red)
• Scissors
• Your child's hand (Note: this is not a material)

Method:

• Fold sugar paper into half.

• Place your child's hand on the paper with the bottom of the palm placed on the folded part of the paper.
• Trace it with a pencil.

• Cut out the traced hand. Cut away the traced thumb and open it.

• Draw circles on white and black paper and cut them out. (spider's eyes)
• Draw a crecent on red paper and cut it out. (spider's mouth)

• Glue the eyes and mouth to the cut out sugar paper.
• Here's your friendly spider smiling at you.

That's not all, we plan to have special activities too. Cheng Sim and I are ready and let's hope our plan works out nicely. We hope to see happy and excited children.

Look out for updates on our playgroup in Chinnee's blog or my blog.

Big Bang World Record

An invitation from Trinity!

We are challenge you, everyone, to participate this "Big Bang - World Record". Our goal is to exceed 1.000 links. Together will be reach that goal. Just make sure you follow the rules. Have fun!

*Start Copy Here*

1. You do not have to be tagged to play along. This game is simple and so are the rules.Copy from *Start Copy Here* through *End Copy Here*2. Add your site(s) to the list. Just be sure to post at each site you add.3. Tag or don’t tag, your choice, however, the more tags you create the bigger the list will grow.4. Let me know your blog’s name and url by leaving me a comment HERE. I will add you to the master list. (If you would like the scroll box code, leave me your email address and I will email it to you.)5. Come back and copy the master list back to your site, often. This process will allow late-comers to get as much link benefit as the first ones in.

1-Attitude, the Ultimate Power 2-Juliana's Site 3-Rusin Roundup 4-Grow Rich Along With Me 5-Comedy Plus 6-lynda's loft 7-Amel's Realm 8-MAX 9-Speedcat Hollydale 10-Mariuca 11-Complain Complain Complain 12-Mariuca's Perfume Gallery 13-Life Is A Roller Coaster 14-Sugar Queen's Dream 15-First Time Dad 16-Life 17-My Life 18-The Painted Veil 19-My Thoughts 20-DatCurious.com 21-Little Aussie Cynic 22-A Nice Place in the Sun 23-DatMoney.com 24-LadyJava's Lounge 25-Cat Tales 26-The Callalily Space 27- Hazel 28- Rooms of My Heart 29-Slavery Bliss 30-Shower Your Children With Love-The Right Way 31-It's All About Play 32-

*End Copy Here*

Let's join in the Big Bang World Record:

Shireen Loh, Dora, Ling, Sweetiepie, The New Parent, Agnes, LiLi, Wen, Peridot&Sapphire, Shannon's Mummy, Jacss, Yatie, Yenny, Martini, Siew Ting, Mybabybay

Linky Love 2008

This tag is from Trinity.


Cut and paste the following starting here.I have randomly selected 5 of you below to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You will have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes we hope it will be a long list!)It’s real easy! Tag others and see your Technorati Authority increase exponentially! The benefits of Viral Linking:- One of the fastest ways to see your technorati authority explode!- Increase your Google PageRank fast- Attract large volume of new traffic to your site- Build your community- Make new friends!


The Strategist Notebook Link Addiction Ardour of the Heart When Life Becomes a Book The Malaysian Life Yogatta.com What goes under the sun Roshidan’s Cyber Station Sasha says Arts of Physics And the legend lives My View, My Life A Simple Life What Women REALLY Think Not Much More Than This Jayedee Jenn Beth Christie Marla Cailin Simone FlipFlopMom Katrina Gill’s Jottings Work of the Poet WakelaModern Day GoddessLivin With Me Writing in Faith Maiylah’s Snippets GreenBucks Its Not a Weekend;Its a Lifestyle Rooms of My Heart JO-N


Tagging: Chanel, Kelly, Anggie, Lovely Mummy, Jazzmint, Elaine, Shireen, Gargies

The Participative Guessing Game

Now, this is fun, at least to my children. They enjoyed the session tremendously. One day, I asked all three of them to sit down in a circle and told them that we were going to play the guessing game. I told them that we would guess an animal by the description of the animal and the five of us (the three kids, me and my maid) would take turns asking a question and whoever knows how to answer would have to raise their hands.


Examples of questions asked were:

1) What animal has a mane around its face?
2) What animal comes out at night to hunt for food and goes hoot, hoot?
3) What animal has a big round stomach and a big mouth?


The game went on with the children each taking turns to ask questions. Karl and Wayne have no problem asking a question. I was amazed by Nyn who is a little more than 2 years old to be able to ask a question.

Here go the two questions asked by my little daughter:

1) What goes oo, oo, ah, ah? (jumping around and moving her arms up and down)
2) What do like this? (sticking out her tongue)

There is a lot of thinking involved in this game. You have to guess an animal by listening to the description and you have to know about an animal to be able to post a question.

The fun part which my children enjoyed is the opportunity for them to participate both in answering and asking of questions whereas the fun part for me is that I get to see my children enjoy while they learn how to participate and to shed away their shyness.

What To Do With A Ball?

One day, my children and I were playing with the ball. We rolled the ball, bounced the ball, threw the ball and kicked the ball. When all these were over, the children were asking for more. So, my brain started working and I came out with this:


Me: Everybody, sit down. Let’s play a new game. (I carried Nyn and put her on my lap)

Karl and Wayne: What are we playing, Mummy?

Me: Listen… Magic ball, magic ball, tell me, who do we see if we fall sick? (I grabbed Nyn’s hands and circle around the ball, not touching it)

Karl: A doctor.

Me: Magic ball, magic ball, what will happen if we don’t eat? (Doing the action again with Nyn’s hands)

Wayne: Die and go to heaven.


After some questions, Nyn was feeling tired and bored and said: “Mummy, I don’t want magic ball anymore.” So, I changed.


Me: Alakazam, ZUM, ZUM, ZUM (Still holding Nyn’s hands and did a different action) tell me, what would happen if you tell lies?

Karl: Nobody will believe you.

Me: Alakazam, ZUM, ZUM, ZUM, what would happen if you jump on the bed?

Wayne: The bed would be dirty.

Me: Alakazam, ZUM, ZUM, ZUM, do I have good children?

Karl, Wayne and Nyn: YES!! (Loud answer from all of them)

Me: Alakazam, ZUM, ZUM, ZUM, what should I do if my children are naughty?

Karl and Wayne: If they behave like jungle boys, take them to the jungle.


The above is just part of our game. There were many more questions asked and answers heard. What a wonderful game for me and my children. For them, it is fun and for me, I get to know what they know and most importantly how they feel.

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Craft for Playgroup - 12 January 2008

This would be tomorrow’s craft for our little ones in the playgroup, a simple craft that would make children happy.


This mini bag can be used as:

1. A “Story Bag” where parents cut out pictures of characters in a story and use them when telling stories.


2. A wallet containing paper money in a game of seller and buyer.


3. A wallet to bring to school. Karl made himself one and put real coins in it. He brings to school everyday.


4. A “Sticker Bag” where children keep their unused stickers.


5. A “Star Bag” where children keep their stars which they earn for behaving from their parents.


6. Others (Can you give me more suggestions?)

Materials:

1) A4 size color paper

2) Stickers

3) Color pen

Method:

1) Fold as shown:

2) Turn pape over and fold as shown below:

3) Insert and fold as shown below:

4) Insert and fold as shown:

5) Flatten and decorate it with stickers and color pen.

A Blog About Play

Welcome! "Play" is a magic word for almost every child and this blog is all about play. I love to spend time with my children and I love to make learning fun too. I find that children learn best when they are happy. So, let's start exploring and learning together with our children - the fun way!

I would appreciate if you could add this blog to your blogroll. Thank you my dear friends.