Basic Prewritting

It's time for prewritting skill! It's a very basic activity for Jenn, it improves her fine motor skill and get her ready to write at school too. 

This activity also allow me to correct her way to hold a pen. She still needs a lot of practices in prewritting, but it's a good start for her! I'm gonna make more prewritting activity for her, stay tune! =)

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Name Recognition

Jenn is very familiar with alphabets, so I decided to make a name recognition for her. It's a simple sticking sticker activity, which requires them to match the alphabets.

What you need:

Paper

Stickers

Marker Pen

How:

Make circles and write down the alphabets of their name on it

Get the stickers ready and write down alphabets on it too

Hope they will love it too! 

Dinosaur

Start introducing dinosaur to Jenn, it's another simple sticking stickers activity. 
She still can't do it perfectly, but I'm still proud of her. 
You'll be amazed how they improved from time to time.

What you need:
Cardboard
Markers/pencil colors/crayon
Stickers

I searched the dinosaur from the net, simply printed it out and colored it, don't forget to leave some blank spots for the stickers.

Enjoy the activity! 

SUN-shine

After everyone was down couple of days ago, now mommy was down too with fever! But I can't wait to make this sun activity for Jenn. 

What you need:
Cardboard (thick!)
DIY Edible Paint
Origami Paper
Scissor
Scotch Tape
Marker pen

Firstly, I let her paint on a thick cardboard with DIY edible paint. She may use her finger, cotton buds or anything that she wants. Then you have to wait until it gets dry. 

You may cut some origami papers while waiting for the painting. I used red, orange and yellow colors to stick on the sun.

Once the painting dries, cut a big circle and you may start sticking on origami papers on the circle's edges with scotch tape. I added smiley face to make it cute!

Jenn didn't finish her job, mommy have to do most of it. We may give it another try next time! 

DIY Birthday Cake Theme Card

Cousin's birthday is coming, so it's time for Jenn to make another DIY craft. We've prepared a gift for him, wrapped it nicely, but we need a birthday card! 
Instead of buying an ordinary card, making a birthday cake theme card popped out of my mind.

Here are what you need:
Origami paper
Marker
Glue
Scissor
Cardboard
Colorful stickers

We created a lot trash in our daily life: milk box, cereal box, cardboard flyers or invitations. Instead of trashing it, we can upcycle those into useful stuff, and it prevents the earth from getting any worse.

This time we used an old cardboard invitation as the main material. Draw a cake on the cardboard, cover the surface with origami paper. Don't forget to make the candles on the top of the cake, and cut out the shape.

I let my girl to stick the colorful sticker, asked her about the colors and also asked her to count them. It's a simple activity but also lots to learn about. 

Colorful Wheel

Teaching color is so much fun with this DIY colorful wheel! This is so simple yet cheap activity.

These are what you need:

• Cardboard
• Marker
• Scissor
• Clothes pins

How:

Make a circle on the cardboard and cut it.

Color the cardboard with colorful markers. 

And viola - it's done!

Squeezing the clothes pin was kinda difficult for her.
She need both of her hands to pinch those, so I gotta hold the colorful wheel while she pinch to open it.
Practise makes perfect, after couple of times, she can manage to hold her own colorful wheel and put on the clothes pins.

Watermelon, fresh up your day!

During these hot days, let's fresh up your day with this fun watermelon activity!
It's another sticking stickers and counting activity.

Things you need:

• Cardboard
• Black dot stickers
• Markers
• Popsicle sticks

How:

1. Make a circle on the cardboard, and cut it into half to make two pieces of watermelon.
2. Color green and red as the outter and inner watermelon.
3. I let Jenn sticks the black dot stickers as the seeds and counts how many seeds on it.
4. Stick popsicle sticks at the back to let them carry around.

Learning Alphabet "C"

After doing the letter "A" and "B" activity, here comes the letter "C" activity. "C" is for cat and car. It involves sticking, matching and coloring activity.

What you need:

• Cardboard
• Stickers
• Cotton Balls
• Glue

I rolled the cotton into balls and dye it with food coloring, took a while to let it dry. Use pom pom balls for another option.

She did pretty well at matching the alphabets, the activity requires to match the letter and color. It's her 1st time using glue and she's so excited about it, not letting go off her hand.

Last activity is to let her color the car with colorful markers. Enjoy!

Cute Ladybug

Ladybug is such a cute insect, Jenn see lots of ladybugs from her storybook and some of her toys. She loves them so much, let's make some of them!

What you need:

• Cardboard
• Marker
• Googly eyes
• Scissor
• Glue
• Black circle stickers
• Popsicle stick

How to make:

1. Cut 2 sizes of circles, for the head and body. 
2. Color the bigger circle with red marker, left some part at the middle.
3. Fully color the smaller circle with black marker.
4. Let them stick the black circle stickers at the body.
5. Stick the googly eyes at ladybug's head, and stick it together to the body.
6. At last, stick the popsicle stick at the back side.

Learning alphabet "A"

Jenn started to learn alphabets couple of months ago, and it's time to do some activity with alphabets on!
To make it more fun, I decided to let her do different activities on each letters.
For the letter A, I had two activities: stick colorful stickers and coloring with markers. 

You need:
Printed paper
Colorful round stickers
Markers

Print the letter "A" on a piece of paper and draw colorful circle on it. Let them match the sticker color with the circle color that you draw.

Next activity includes a picture of apple for the letter of A. 

Happy learning ABC! =)

DIY Train

We have empty milk cartons every two days, can you imagine how many we have?
Instead of throwing it away, we upcycle it into crafts. 

Upcycle milk cartons into train is one of the must do craft, it's easy and useful.

Use it to store kids' hair clips, craft accessories, pencil holder or even let them use it as their toy!
This time, we have Lio as Jenn's fave cousin to make the train together.

Materials needed:

• Milk cartons
• Thick paper
• Waterbased paint
• Cardboard
• Marker
• Glue
• Scissor

Firstly, fully cover the milk carton with thick paper, I used drawing paper which is not easy to tear off. Then cut cardboards into circles as the train's wheels, color it with black marker.

Then let those little hands do their art by using marker or waterbased paint, but please keep an eye on them, they might paint your wall or even try to taste it!

I let them to use colorful markers at the beginning but seems like they're not interested with it, so I let them to use the paint for the rest of it.

Making an edible paint is a good idea, since toddlers like to taste everything new, I'll make one for the next project!

Let the paint dry off, and stick the wheels on both sides. 

Jenn couldn't wait for the train, she quickly take out her animals collection and look at that big smile she got on her face!

DIY Birthday Banner

On granny's birthday, we decided to make something for her.

We made cute bunny birthday card, link for step by step instruction of Bunny Birthday Card

And these are what we need for the banner:

• Cardboard
• Crepe paper
• Marker
• Scissor
• Glue

1. Make circles with the cardboard. Then I let Jenn make scratches with pencil color on it.

2. Write the word "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" on the cardboard with colorful markers.

3. Make ruffle with the crepe paper around the cardboard. 

Happy Birthday, Granny! We ♥ you