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!

Welcome to Jenn's Bakery ^^

It's another pretend play, please welcome to Jenn's bakery. The cakes are homemade and decorated by Jenn, enjoy! 

This activity improves their fine motor control, hand and eye coordination and also creativity. This activity involves small item: waterbeads, please make sure to keep an eye on them and never leave them unattended while doing this activity.
If you don't feel at ease, please don't do this activity with your toddler.

What you need:

• DIY Playdough (here is the recipe)
• Cupcake papers
• Waterbeads
• Plates
• Tong

How to do:

1. Make the DIY playdough as instructed at the recipe
2. Shape them into cakes
3. Decorate the cake with waterbeads
4. Serve the cake with tong

Jenn the lil Gardener

Jenn loves gardening sooooo much, she keeps playing it again and again..!
Hope your kids enjoy it too =)

What you need:

• Popsicle sticks
• Cardboard
• Flower pot
• Waterbeads
• Gardening tools ( I have mini gardening fork, spade and watering can )

How to do:

1. Draw flowers on the cardboard, color them and cut the shape out.
2. Color the popsicles with green color and stick the flowers on them.
3. Place the waterbeads in a big container, so they can move them to the flower pot by gardening spade.
4. Let them plant the flowers.

Jenn's DIY Homemade Cupcakes

Welcoming February, the month of love, with something sweet, it's cupcakes!
This practice the little hands' fine motor skill and some creativity.

What you need:

• Cardboard
• Punched origami papers
• Scissor
• Marker
• Glue

How to do:

1. Draw cupcakes and strawberries on the cardboard.
2. Cut the shape out and color it with marker (your little ones might need your help for this)
3. Let them decorate the cupcakes with some punched origami papers as smarties and the strawberry

Christmas Tree Card

This is the Christmas card that Jenn made for 2014, simple yet cute! I know it's too late for Christmas, but you may change the theme into some other events, or maybe this year's Christmas card =)

What you need:

• Plain white cardboard
• Circle stickers (combination of light and dark green)
• Pen

Instructions:

1. Draw dots on the paper which will form a Christmas tree
2. Place the stickers on the dots
3. Don't forget to add a star on the top of the tree
4. Write a message on the back side

DIY Snowflake for toddler

I know it's really late to post crafts with Christmas theme, but late is better than nothing. December is identical with snowy winter season, so snowflake is the DIY craft for toddlers this time.

What you need:

• Plain white paper
• Origami
• Puncher
• Scissor
• Glue

Instructions:

1. Draw circles on the paper and cut them out
2. Fold the circles into 4 and cut on the edges, adults may help with this
3. Punch colorful origami papers
4. Decorate the snowflakes with the punched papers

Cutting Skill - Advance

It's been a while since my last post, first of all Jenn and I would love to wish you a happy new year, may 2015 brings lots of love, happiness and peace to you all.

Today we practiced Jenn's cutting skill, it's very simple and easy to make, all you have to do is just draw on a paper and let them have a quiet time for a while. You may wanna make it easier by googling some drawings and just print them out.

What you need:

• Paper
• Marker
• Ruler
• Paper Scissor

Jenn's work wasn't perfect, but I'm glad that she tried her best =)