Disney Easter Egg in Shopping Mall

I saw some Disney Easter Eggs in a shopping mall yesterday!

They are so cute and lovely!

Maybe we can decorate the eggs like this in next Easter!


I like Mickey and Minnie the most! They looks funny without the big circle ears, lol

28 Creative Stamps that kids can make

I like stamping arts. Simple stamps can make a pretty picture easily.

Below are some easy to get materials which can be made into stamps for kids crafts.

Stamping with Lego

I found that Lego can be used for stamping.

We can make the stamp we like easily.

We can make heart, cross, stripes, etc.

We can also make random-located dots for stamping DIY gift wrapping paper.

And, we can make words too! That is great!

Lovely Minions Exhibitions

We watched a Minions movie in summer holiday.

My son loves them crazily.

I knew that there was an exhibition of Minions in a shopping mall. Thus, I took my son there.

He was so excited!

Which one do you like more? Stuart? Bob / Kevin?

Our first pottery class

Besides the first mosaics class, we also had our first pottery class at the resort in the summer holiday.

It was our first time and was more difficult than I imagined.

It was difficult to make the shape that I wanted on the tuning table.

I wanted to make a pen-holder. But I could not control my fingers well.

Sometimes, I made it concave by accident. And sometimes, I made it bent irregularly carelessly.

So as my husband and my son, they found that quite difficult to make a good shape!

Finally, the teacher helped us to make the desired shapes. We only did the decorations on it, lol!

 

Our First Mosaics Projects

This summer holiday, we went to a resort.

There are some art classes in the resort, such as clay, shoe / tshirt / cap design, pottery, bottle drawing classes.

We attended a few of them. The class that I liked most is the mosaics class.

This was the first time my son and I did the mosaics projects. We felt so exciting!


In the class, we were given a wood photo frame as the foundation to adhere the tiles on.

There were so many pretty tiles for our choice. Some of them were complete and more of them were in pieces.

If we wanted to cut our shapes, we can use a cutting tool.

Kids Activity - 7 Non-traditional Jenga Block Games

We have a set of Jenga blocks at home. We like to play them so much.

Besides playing them in the traditional way, my son and I brainstormed some other ways to play with them.

We had much fun with these games. Share them with you here!


1. Build the tallest 'building'

With no limit on number of blocks to be used, try to build the tall 'building'. Who can build the tallest one will be the winner.


2. Build the strongest 'building'

With limited number of blocks, try to build the strongest 'building'. How to judge which one is the strongest? We used the remote control car to help us. Your opponent uses the car to crash the 'building'. The building that can tolerate greatest number of crashes before falling down can be won.

Paper Crafts - 2014 Mid-Autumn Festival Lanterns

Monday was the Mid-Autumn Festival.

There are a lot of pretty lanterns exhibited in a park.

They are so cute. Children must like!

Castle made by big blocks

Dream City Exhibition

I saw an exhibition recently. The title was 'Dream City'.

Some of the students used quilting to express their ideas.

Their works were so pretty. They may give you idea on what to quilt, lol!

Below are the three that I like most.


This one is not just my dream city, the houses are my dream house too!

I live in tall building. I really want to have a house with a garden in front of it. That must be very pretty!

Miyazaki Animation Layout Designs (including Totoro)

Last Sunday, we went to see a special exhibition - Miyazaki Animation Layout Designs.

Don't know who is Miyazaki?? That is OK.

How about Totoro, the big grey cat?? That is designed by Miyazaki.

When I was a teenager, I liked Totoro so much!

It is so cute, especially when he carried a small umbrella.

I like its smiling face too. That is so lovely.

Kids Activity - Spring Flower Show

In Early April, we went to a flower show with my son.

He is a boy and did not have much interest on the flower show. But I did.

He only wanted to play in another playground made by natural materials. I will introduce that playground in the next post.

The flowers were so pretty! They told us that Spring was coming.

Kids activity - Noah's Ark (2)

Besides the Ark Garden, there are a lot of exhibitions and facilites in the Noah's Ark.

Adventureland

My son truly wanted to try the rope climbing facilities inside it. But he was not tall enough to play that now. He felt so disappointed.

Kids activity - Noah's Ark (1)

Recently, we had been to a special place for kids. It was the Noah's Ark.

It is the world's first full scale Ark replica.

It is in fact a big building with exhibition rooms, hotel rooms, restaurants and shops inside.

Below are the pictures of the Ark took a few years ago. I post these pictures instead of those we took recently because on the day when we visited recently, the weather is cloudy. We could not take pretty picture on that day.

Kids Crafts - Cardboard Maze

I saw some interesting booth games in a party.

I think they can be made easily at home for the kids too.

Like this, it is a maze made with cardboard and Styrofoam.

Kids can play in pairs or one by one.

What they need to do is to roll a table tennis ball from the start to the end point in a maze.

The maze is easy to make.

First find a big Styrofoam or cardboard as the bottom.

Design the maze on the board. Then use cardboards to make the walls of the maze.

To add challenges, you can add some slopes or obstacles in the maze like this one.

At the right bottom corner, two ways were made with slope.

And there were some obstacles in the middle of some of the way.

It was quite difficult to make the ball pass through these ways easily.


You don't need to buy any material for making this.

You can save cardboards / styrofoam from food or toy packages.


If you don't want to make a big one, you can use Lego to make a small one and then use marble to play with it.

Children must have a great fun with this simple and cheap game, lol!

'Ball' Game Made by Small Boxes, Tissue Rolls and Carton Box

My son's school had a special assignment recently.

It required the students to make a toy with recycling materials. Parents could think and teach children how to do at home. But children had to make them at school. This assignment is important because the score will make up 10% of the General Studies exam marks.

Though my son is seven years old now, he cannot make complex crafts tidily. Thus, we have to prepare a toy that is funny and not too complex to make by himself.

Finally, we decided to make this. This was a 'ball' game.

2013 We grew a special X'mas tree!!

This year, we grew a very special X'mas tree at home as decorations.

This tree was special because it grew very quickly and it was colorful.

Also, it was easy to grow!

Though it was small (its height was about 8 inches only), it was so beautiful! We like it so much! How do you think??

This is in fact an experiment about crystallisation. We grew it according to the instructions in a science magazine for kids.

Funny Exhibitions for Kids (2)

Besides a lot of musical instruments made by recycling materials, there were other funny games in the exhibitions.

Children could draw freely on glass. My son liked this very much. Maybe because he do not have chance to do this at home, lol!

Funny Exhibitions for Kids (1)

Recently, we went to the Cultural Museum.

Do not think that the things exhibited in the museum are always boring!

This time the exhibition was so funny. It was totally for kids, about hearing and visual arts.

My son enjoyed this very much!


A big octopus made by recycle wooden box. Children can climb into it.

Paper crafts - 2013 Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Show

Besides the plastic bottles big 'lantern' or dome, there were a lot of traditional lanterns displayed in the lantern show.

They were made by bamboo sticks and papers. I think that must be very difficult to make.

At least, that requires a lot of patience to bend the sticks to the shapes that you want and stick the papers to the sticks afterward.

Animal lanterns: deer

 

 

lion, cow

 

 

lovely polar bear

 

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Bottle crafts - 2013 Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns

There was a big lantern show in a park in last Saturday.

After having dinner with our families (we usually eat with family on this festival), we went to watch that.

Wow! The show was amazing, especially this big dome made by plastic bottles!

The outside wall was made by very big plastic bottles, like those we use in office with taps.

Thousands of small plastic bottles were hanged on the ceiling inside it. That looked so grand!