Colorful caterpillar

I saw this activity on an online shop, and I decided to make one instead of buying it. 

What you need:

• Cardboard

• Drawing paper

• Pencil color

• Pen

• Scissor

• Scotch tape

• Glue

• Buttons

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This activity requires the kids to match the same color on the caterpillar with the buttons. This involves their color knowledge and also hand and eyes coordination. You may make it more colorful as you want.

Valentine - DIY Goodie Bag

This is an idea for those who wanna let their toddler to participate in preparing Valentine day's gift, this activity improves their fine motor skill, and also creativity.

What you need:

• Bottle caps
• Paint - I used DIY Edible Paint
• Drawing paper
• Pink lace
• Scissor
• Glue
• Puncher

How to do:

1. Let your toddler paint the paper, we used bottle caps this time. Please make sure to put their old clothes on, there will be mess here and there, yet so much fun!
2. Wait until the paper fully dry and cut into heart shapes.
3. Take 2 pieces of them, apply some glue on the edges and stick them together. Don't glue the top part, it's where the snacks are going in.
4. Make holes on the top part and put in the pink laces.
5. Fill in the snacks, please make sure how big you want the bag to be from the beginning.

Happy valentine's day!

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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Colorful Toothpicks Activity

I love making DIY toys for Jenn, and this is one of them. It's a simple color recognition activity and also practice their little fingers' muscles.

What you need:

• Empty bottle (I upcycled a mineral water bottle)
• Thick plastic (as the cover)
• Colorful stickers
• Toothpick
• Rubber bands
• Marker

We had to color the toothpicks with markers, we made 6 different colors. You may have more colors, depends on the size of your bottle. Stick on colorful stickers and make a hole, not too big, but just enough to fit in the toothpicks. Cover the bottle with the plastic and secure with rubber bands.

Jenn needs extra patient and concentration to do this activity, but she loves it so much. She will ask for more when all the toothpicks are inside the bottle.

Uppercase and Lowercase Alphabets

These are simple activities to introduce your children about uppercase and lowercase alphabets. Jenn learned about uppercase and lowercase from the first time she learned about alphabets. I have an abc chart which contains uppercase and lowercase, I found it was very helpful, you can get it at the nearest bookshop.

We need paper, marker and magnetic alphabets for this activity. Draw circles and write down uppercase alphabets on a piece of paper. Make sure it's not too small for the magnetic alphabets.

First activity is to match the uppercase alphabets on the paper with the lowercase magnetic alphabets (it can be found in almost every online toy shop).

The second activity requires alphabet stickers, paper, marker and ruler. Draw boxes on the paper and write down a lowercase alphabets on it.

This activity require the children to match the lowercase and uppercase alphabets by sticking on the stickers. 

Learning Alphabet "D"

It's been a while since she mess around with pencil color, crayon and paint, so here is a simple activity for letter D.

Print out a big and small letter of D with a picture of duck and dog. Let them use whatever they want to color it with.

My little Picasso is doing her thing, busy picking colors.

Jenn used crayon, pencil color and paint for this activity. This is the final of her coloring activity. 

Counting Tree

Jenn is learning to count, she still can't count properly. Sometimes she start counting from two, and sometimes she just say one to ten without really counting the things i asked. So this time, let's make counting more fun!

What I used:

• Scissor
• Glue
• Origami paper
• Old calendar (I love to upcycle stuff at home!) - Cut it into tree shape and tree trunks, cover up with origami papers.
• Colorful stickers - Write numbers on each color as the task to stick as many stickers as written on it.

Happy sticking, happy counting and have a great day! 

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. 

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.