Our very own angry bird game

In montesorri method, they emphasize a lot on young minds exposure to the environment. My aim in this activity is mostly to introduce stones to my kid. Their shape, surface, strenght, weight etc. So i make them pick the white stones at one of our massive flower vase, make them washed and wipe the stones dry themselves... Then what??? i thought... And then the angry bird game idea just sprung out of nowhere. That is how usually i got my idea, from one leading to the other, once you think about something, your minds starts brainstorming and thoughts turned into reality. Its a perfect game to make!!! While playing the game the kids can apreciate the nature of stones, its hardness, heaviness, strenghts, and lots more that i cant describe. And its so much fun!! Learning should be fun!! We have to step outside the box and realize that educating the young minds are more than making sure our kids knows how to count and read. There are more to that. A, B, C, 1,2,3 substarct, minus, etc, etc are not The "education" but only tools to "The Real Education of Life". There are much strenght in play. But there are little values in TV, games, you tubes :D ( which is what our kids are doing nowadays even mine eepsss...Anyway, enjoy the pics. ( it will be random untill i manage to arrange them at my PC)

We picked the stones together washed them and wiped to dry.

colouring the stones.

The boys chooses their own colour for the birds.

The piggies are made from blocks.

cover them with white papers

Our very own sligshot.By building this simple structure ourselves and see it works we are showing the kids that we can make anything out of the things that we have. Encouraging innovative mind.

Now lets play!!

Piggies on blocks just like in the game.

This encourage balance, visual motor accuracy, understanding of tensile strength, goal and achievements, satisfaction and more..more

Voila!!! game over. 

The kids had so much fun playing the games. Once done, we can put them aside and play them again later. Making our own toys are a good activity with our kids. This way apart from saving lots of money (hehehe is that my main reason) as mention we teach them invention and creation, teaching them we can make anything we wants toys or otherwise, honestly ready made toys that are make to perfection leave zero creativity to our kids, worst still those who comes with batteries and so automatics and leave so little more for the kids to explore they visual motor function. ....friends go ahead make one yourslves and do share!!;)

Space adventure

Today, suddenly Harith told me that he wanna make stars and put them up in the sky. The other day we were busy making rockets. Most of the rocket making directions i saw on the web are either using explosive or fire, therefore i try to change them to be propelled by ballon gush using ' bernoulli principle' ,but well its not working yet. Therefore the rockets stays as toys that is flown by the hands only. But the kids still love it. Anyway today Harith says he wants to land his rocket in the moon as well, and he wants his rocket to fly past the stars and our land ( which he means earth).So I thot of this projects. I make him draw his stars, moon and earth and cut them and hang them with a rope, we had another rope made for the rocket so that he can fly his rocket passed the stars , earth and land then in the moon. Uyay of course will join in once he feels he wants too. :). Check it out!!.

Lately i tend to keep most boxes that will come in handy once we wanna do our projects.

Both of them are coloring their own rocket, Harith's red and Uyay's blue

Put them to dry, notice the shiny effect of acrylic paint.

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Wow looking quite real !!

Putting the stars on strings

I just had to capture this little boy in his deep concentration.

Harith painting the earth and moon.

Both rockets are put on different strings from the stars and moon so they can fly over. This is such fun astronomy lessons dont you think??

What a beautiful world, what a beautiful life ;)

Blue

My friends and I had a class with nasi kerabu sifu yesterday and it was fabulous!!. We cook and talk and eat and cook and talk and eat and by the time our nasi kerabu is ready to eat we are all full with junk already!! But our husbands straight from work, tired hungry and stress enjoyed them so much. Cant wait for our next pantai timor dish cooking class. :D

The orange party

We love singing tho i cant actually sing, i still love singing, and i love to listen to other people sing. The other day , my friend Diana had her birthday celebration in karaoke lounge here which is owned by Malaysian name IboX . We have so much fun eating, socilizing and singing.
Our husbands are all hot for malay song solid rock music by searchs and wings. And during that moment we just sit and suffer . :D ahahah

Us ladies, D is at the center next to me and she is our Diva.

Pink party

Last sunday we had a lovely afternoon. Madame Nini pink birthday party!!. The food are fabulous, the company is great!! Living in Vietnam with family far away, we are blessed to have so many Malaysian friends. Enjoy the pics !!.



Table settings, at an exclusive area, with our own buffet table and a life piano music. Ohsemm!!!


The lovely table settings, with only pink and white roses. The Pink and White mini album handbags are specially made by Nini to all of us ladies.




 The foods are very very very good and I mean it. A mixture o western and Malaysian food.

Us ladies sitting filling the table. We prefer to sit together and gossipp!!

The men in white and blue jeans. Such a wonderfull sight to see our husbands dress in themes.

Me and Hubby

Nini and me with my BIG but light present ;)

The waiter at the back dress in pink as well!!! how cute.

Nini birthday cake made of Red Velvet Cupcakes the best in HCMC

Us ladies looking lovely in Pink.

My very own rakit

Today, I plan to teach Harith about writing a plan, and executing something according to the plan. For these I took a stack of colourfull straw. First we draw the plan and colour which later Harith can arrange the straw according to the colour code.

 




Harith above is arranging the straw according to colour as in the plan.


 Done!!

Then I helped him saw the straw together.

In the afternoon, after their afternoon nap, We brought the rakit to the nearby lake and put it to the test. wala!! it floats!!. Through this simple activity I manage to teach Harith about sense of planning, following plan,making something out of something, sense of achievements and many more. :).

Pizza boys

Making pizza is easy. Easy enough to make them with the kids. Make the dough, make the sauce, prepare anything for the topping. Then ask the kids to help spread them out. make few batch, bake one to eat, keep one for breakfast for the next day. Most importantly the kids love the do it yourself activities. It gives them the sense of achievements. To give them the satisfaction of eating something they made for themselves.

 

First of all ..lay the base.

spread the sauce

 

  Put all the topping, in this case i gave them hot dog, some sliced cheese, and tomatos, easy enough.

Ahmad Zuhayr with his proud and satisfied face :).

 

Ready to bake.

 

Abah actually enjoy the pizza for breakfast :)