Cabbage with 5 Senses…

A piece of cold cabbage…

Feel it…

Mouth it…

Look at it…

Smell it…

Hear from it…

Like it…

Homemade Playdoh Recipe

Saw this piece of work at Montessori By Hand Blog, and I went to get all the materials by the next day.

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons of flour

2 tablespoons of salt

1 dropper of oil

2 tablespoons of Diluted food colouring in water

Instruction:

1. Add Flour, salt and oil into bowl.

2. Add coloured water into mixture using dropper bit by bit as you knead till enough.

Ju watching attentively as daddy shows how.

Ju’s turn to try. He is loving this work.

Father and son’s creations!

Ju : Can we eat this?

Me : Errrrr….. You want to try?

Ju : hahahahah! Ran off….

Collecting Blues

We tied a blue bedsheet over Ju and got him to collect as many blue items as he can around the home before the clock alarm rings.

Times up! Laid out and counted all the blue items he had collected.

Structure Building with Styrofoam Balls

Styrofoam balls and toothpicks…

Ju quietly at work…

Ju : This is a space station.

Ju : This is also a space station.

Bouncing Egg Experiment

Can an egg bounce without breaking?

Julian loves science. We found this experiment and did with him. Try it with your child.. it’s fun!

You will need:

– 2 raw eggs

– Water

– Vinegar

– 2 transparent bowls / containers

Soak one egg in a bowl of water, and the other egg in a bowl of vinegar. Leave the eggs alone.

Few hours later…

The egg in the vinegar has changed. The shell has begun to fizz.

Day 3…

The egg in the vinegar has changed again. The shell is gone.

The egg in water remains the same.

The egg in vinegar looks and feels like rubber ball.

Day 7…

Take the egg out of the bowl of vinegar. Hold it a little bit over a basin and drop it. It bounces!

Then try the same actions to the egg soaked in water. It cracks.. of course!

Try holding the egg in vinegar a little bit more higher over the basin and drop it until it breaks… hee

This is the skin of the egg soaked in vinegar.

What had happened??

A chemical change takes place in the egg when left in vinegar. The vinegar which is acid, dissolves the calcium carbonate in the shell. The change makes the shell go soft then disappear. This is called “decalcification”

Building Blocks

Big Bone Yummy!

I love to see Ju engrossed in his food. This time is his first attempt on a BIG bone! 

Digging marrow from the bone and taste… Mmmmm…

 

Sucking the marrow… Mmmm…

 

Can’t get enough of the marrow… Use a fork… Mmmm…

 

Satisfying…

Christmas 2008

While Julian is on school holiday, this blog is also on holiday mode… Ha!

Now I have to backdate a little for the events that had passed by so quickly over the last weeks. 

How did we celebrate the last Christmas? As usual, we had a gathering with Julian’s godparents, Damon & Cindy whose little girl, Clare is our god daughter. This time, we had extended the invitation to Paul and Lina and their little girl, Gracia in joining us for the mini party. Gracia and Clare are about 2 weeks apart in age gap. Ju is a year older than them. It is so nice to see them grow together, especially when Gracia and Clare reminded us of Ju during the last Christmas gathering.

We went for a Children’s Christmas mass at Christ the King Church on Christmas Eve, and went to packet dinner from Whampoa hawker centre before heading to our home for dinner.

 

This is a birthday cake for Jesus and one candle for each of them to blow off… 

 

 

Getting ready for the feast…

 

 

Portraits of  wing eating…

 

 

Clare looking for “Kor” to pass him the present…

 

 

Busy opening presents from Julian’s godparents…

 

The next morning… Julian opening all his presents…

 

We gave Ju an airport set and it fits nicely into the railway track from Damon and Cindy. Ju was very happy playing with his gifts the whole day even till today…

Water station

Last week, we created a water station in the kitchen for Ju to access on his own for water…

He is very interested in the process of pouring water on his own from the jug into his cup. After he drink from the cup, he will pour the remaining water back into the jug. Ha! Still have to reinforce every now and then to make use of it the proper way but it’s real fun for him! 

I had tried to put milk in it and it worked too! He is more focus in finishing his milk on his own when I uses it.

 

Beans and Limes

Julian and I tried out 2 crafts recently.  They were suggested by Julian’s Godma and a friend of mine. Simple, easy to clean up and fun for kids

 

1) Rolling lime painting in a container 

Things to prepare : a disposable container with cover, a sheet of paper, poster colour, lime (quantity is up to you)

– Place the paper in the container

– Add in poster colours (This is the part which Ju love most! He will squeeze the poster colour out very generously and I was there saying… “Ok! Enough Enough!!”)

– Put the limes in

– Cover the container with the lid

– Shake the container

– The artwork is done!

 

2) Bean art

Things to prepare : Beans (Any types of dry beans you have in your kitchen), a sheet of paper, white glue

– Draw the picture on the paper and trace with white glue ( What we did was freely squeeze the white glue over the paper, and again… Julian was very generous! Ha!)

– Either pour or place the beans one at a time onto the glue area

 

– Let the glue with beans dry ( I love this piece of work! It looks like a butterfly flying down towards a flower )