The Making of Birthday Cake

Recently Dan likes to hum the birthday song again and again..even sing it out softly when he is engrossing in his play. I guess the child care center must be celebrating the birthday for lot of his classmates until the song is lingering around his head again and again..

I tried to think of some art & craft activity that related to birthday for him to do over the weekend... I draw the shape of the birthday cake and Dan will be in charge of coloring and decorating the cake that he likes....Obviously the coloring is messy and i did some touch up before accessorize the cake with colorful pom pom balls..

He was happy to look at the cake and started to sing the birthday song again in front of the cake, and he naturally closed his eyes to make a wish after the song...next he blow the candle, cut the cake and finally distributed the "cake to mummy then finally pretending to grab one piece and put inside his mouth... The whole process is the step to step must do sequence during the birthday and he knew all of it since he 2 years old birthday until now.....Mummy just hope that every year he will enjoy himself in this special day and as long as daddy mummy still able to, we wish to be by his side to give him the first birthday wishes.....and prayer..

The Making of Tiger 's Mask

Mummy saw this making of mask from one of the blogger mummy and decided to get Dan to do one over the weekend. Usually mummy will plan weekends activities for Dan during the weekdays.. how....by browse through a lot a lot of great great mummy's blogs. Hopefully more and more idea can be flourish into mummy's head.

The material needed in this activity will be paper plate, felt cloths, googly eyes, paint..... I gave only paper plate and paint to Dan for the initial start.. to prevent him for getting distracted by other stuffs (googly eyes...) After the painting, we put it to dry, while waiting the paint to dry, we spent the time to cut the whiskers, the nose and so on... After all things had prepared, i got Dan to paste in onto the painted paper plate as what i told, i will ask what is this (by picking up the whisker) and he has to paste it at the right place... until the whole tiger's face is shown obviously.... hehe He was amused and happy to see his own creation after i popped the stick to the mask.

About Singapore..

We did a simple activity about Singapore sometime back. I have learned that Dan is singing and pledging every morning in the CCC therefore to add on to what the teachers thought him at school, i created this theme. I printed out the Sg Flag, The Mascot of Sg, The National Flower of Sg, The National Anthem, Pledge. Some of the printed out is not here.

I had described the flag, the color, the no of star and moon, we talked about Merlion and showed him the photos that we took with the merlion and so on...

After all the talking part, we started to make the flag as i said to him that we will make flags and mummy will make one and Dan will make one.... so here we started with the assignment that given...

The last part is to get him sing the National Anthem together with mummy.....here you go...although he is still lacking behind on the lyrics part but it is always good to start at the early age....

The Sunflower

We had registered the -Books Loaning Scheme- for Danzel at his childcare center. Therefore every Friday, he will come back with a reader book on particular subject so that Daddy and Mummy can share and read the book to Dan Dan over the weekends. This week, the book is called " The Sunflower". After the dinner, I took the book out and read through it with Dan Dan, after the reading and simple explaination about the sunflower, we had the Art & Craft session as usual and the topic is nothing but of course " The Sunflower".

Here's the simple reader book from school!

ta ta~~ here's the end idea from mummy and artworks done by mummy and Dan Dan together. Basically, I just got Dan Dan to help and paste the sunflower petal and pollen grains. He was quite fascinated with the flower that we made by looking at the one that he was holding and the one that in the book. In the process, we learn of course, the sunflower, petel, stem and leave.