Puppet Show

First, I bought this:


Then, I bought this:


When you put these together, you get this:

It's fun playing with finger puppets. All you need is some imagination and your children's hands to make it work. My children enjoyed playing but poor mummy has to crack her head to think of stories with land and sea animals as characters.


Well, if my children are happy, I really don't mind thinking a little more. That's motherhood, isn't it? So, if you are thinking how to entertain your children, consider putting up a show for them or get them to put up a show for you!


PS: Puppets and puppet theatre bought in IKEA.

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.