Alphabet Book : f

This is the fun art which Mummy learned the ideas from Mummy Lee Siang on Facebook. Both kids are happy with the water colours ‘project’ again!

 You'll Need:  

• Drawing paper
• Water Colours
• 2 no of Flat Sponges
• Paint Brushes
• Colour Palette
• Straws
• Markers

To Make:

1. Draw out a big fish shape on a sponge and another triangle shape of fish in another flat sponge. Mummy manage to draw another small fish on it.
2. Cut the two sponge fish out, put it aside.
3. We choose the black colour and orange colour for the fish, blue and green colour for the water and plants. Pour the colours into the colour palette separately.
4. Dip the sponge in the colour and then help the kid to press it onto the drawing paper.
5.  Let kids make whatever design they want.
6. Use the straw to make some bubbles design for the blue colour water.
7. Use the paint brush to draw some water plants.
8. Put the paper aside to let water colours to be dried.

 

f is for fish

A fish for the day. Quite a small fish, it is a lowercase letter ‘f’. Both having fun gluing the tiny scales: yellow, green and pink construction papers and the tin foil too.

What You’ll Need:

• blue and a variety of coloured craft foams
• tinfoil
• wiggly eye
• glue/tape
• scissors

How to Make the ‘f’ for fish:

1. Cut out a lowercase ‘f’ from a piece of light blue foam sheet.
2. Cut out scales for the fish.
3. Cover several of the scales with tinfoil, just like Rainbow Fish’s glittery scales.
4. Cut out some fins and lips for your fish.
5. Glue/tape the head of the fish, the tail and the flipper fin onto the lowercase ‘f’.
6. Glue on the wiggly eye and lips.
7. Glue on all of the pretty scales for your fish.

Resource: http://totallytots.blogspot.com

We Love Toys! 27 Mar 2011

       

Kids always love Toys! Their play time!

Alphabet Book : F

Since we had our last very enjoyable water colouring session, thus Mummy intend to do it again our our Alphabet Book for the letter uppercase ‘F’. Well, it is just a simple one – Fire.

Issac did not finish his logs colour but Annabelle managed to complete hers.

You'll Need:

• Drawing paper
• Water Colours – Red & Yellow for the fire, Brown for the logs
• Pencil

To Make:

1. Draw out a large fire shape on the drawing paper.
2. Draw out the rectangular shape as the logs.
3. Have kids just colour it. Started with the yellow colour first, then follow by the red colour, let the mixing colours of both do the miracles.

F is for Fox

We are going through letter ‘F’ this week, thus everything related to the letter F: fish, frog, fire and here we are, the Fox.

What You'll Need:

• Brown foam sheet/construction paper
• Scissors
• Pen {to trace letter}
• Fake fur
• Googly eyes
• small pom pom for nose
• Glue

How to make the 'F' Fox:

1. Trace and cut an uppercase 'F' out of the foam sheet or construction paper.
2. Using the extra foam, cut out two small triangles for ears.
3. Cut out a tail from the fake fur.
4. Glue the ears, tail, eye and nose onto your letter F.

Mummy had modify some art materials here.

We do not have the brown construction paper neither the brown foam sheet, thus we just using the used exercise book brown colour cover as the substitute materials for that.

And, the fake fur too, Mummy just using the shopping paper bags strings, so happened that we have some gold colour in the house, so Mummy just cut it out and become our materials today.

The small pom pom as well, using the hole puncher to punch the tiny small round black nose out from the black colour construction paper.

Resource: http://totallytots.blogspot.com

Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 20 Mar 2011

Today we woke up early in the morning because we want to be at Putrajaya Precinct 2 early, to be there before the hot air balloon rise up!

               

It is the Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta!

                      

I prepared some snacks, sandwiches and fingers food for both Issac and Annabelle as we have to leave the house so early before 6.30am. We were finding our way to the right place as we followed the signage along the road once our car entered to Putrajaya areas.

In the morning, the weather seems like not really favorable for the event of the day. Patches of thick clouds hovering all around and made the sky so moody.

The balloonists already at the designated fields to set up the balloon, firing up the hot air and around 7.00am we can see a few of the hot air balloon were ready to fly up to the sky.

I was quite amazed and quite an eye-opening experience seeing the numbers of people holding DSLRs, It was as if the existence of compact point and shoot camera has ceased, and no longer matter.

Not only the volume of DSLR users are unbelievably enormous, the lenses mounted on their DSLR s are nothing short of spectacular. All those giant ultra wide angels, bazookas such as 70-200mm, and even more fisheyes lenses.

Even Daddy too, brought his 2 cameras – Canon 500D and 7D. And, we can feel and massive ‘human flood’ in to this area!

More and more hot air balloons up to the sky! The design of some of the balloon were rather interesting, though there were also plain and ordinary looking ones. The crowd favorites of coarse were the Darth Vader and Doraemon.

This was of coarse, our first time such an event. I have always seen hot air balloons through newspapers, magazines, paintings, television shows, or even the internet.

I have not really encountered a life on my life. Being there having an opportunity to see through my own camera was quite a satisfying experience.

We did not go for a ride, because by watching the lining with hundreds of people for the tickets really scared us away.

We left Putrajaya around noon time, there was raining by the time our car drove through the bridge.

This shot was taken by Daddy during we left the area.

Good and great satisfaction of the close encounter with the hot air balloon. Hope next year we able to come again.

A Journey of Pilgrim 19 Mar 2011

These photos were taken by Daddy at his job site at Jalan Ipoh.

There are devotees with barefoot were walking to the Hindu Temple for the purpose of vow fulfilment. During the pilgrimage, some devotees will carry large milk pots and ornate frames (kavadi). The kavadi are supported by a series of spikes that laterally pierce the skin of their chest and backs as a symbol of penance.

I have heard that on the month leading up to the pilgrimage, those who have decided to bear the kavadi will have mainly subsisted on a heavily restricted diet and completely fast on last few days before the pilgrimage.

Naturally, these extremes demand of very high level of mental and physical fortitude. Not all devotees who take the pilgrimage will pierce their skin with hooks.

Many will just opt carry a pot of milk, which serves as a symbol of fertility and abundance in Hindu faith. In a sense, it could be considered form of thanksgiving to their God for any prayers that he has answered.