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Happy Teachers Day 2019

Happy Teachers Day to all teachers and educators around the world!

In Singapore, teachers day is celebrated on the last day of school term 3.In 2019, it is September 6^th.

We all are here due to our parents and teachers. They helped us to grow as responsible adults. Now as parents we guide our kids to be responsible adults in future. For this, teachers play the most important role.

During the teachers’ day celebrations, there are many teachers’ day gifts available in the market. From flowers to personalized mugs, there are many cute teacher appreciation gifts to buy.

For me, I always admire gifts that have a personal touch. This is why I love to buy teachers day cards to appreciate my kid’s preschool teachers.

For this teacher’s day, I bought few cards for his teachers and asked the kid to write a message.

Below is what he wrote to his 3 lovely teachers.

Singapore Teachers Day 2019 — To teacher Ana

He wrote the words by himself without my help.I can see his progress in writing when compared to our teacher’s day cards from 2017.Now as a student of Kindergarten 2, he can write letters and compose simple sentences.

He also draws pictures with more details than he was.

All these skills are because of his great teachers!

Thank you all teachers!

Happy Teachers Day 2019!

All About Me Book for Preschool

08 10 , 2018 6 Comments

We made this All About Me book in early January this year as a Preschool project.We were just after a long holiday in Sri Lanka to spend time with kid’s grandparents.We started this year with back to school shopping in Malaysia.We ended 2017 with happy memories and kid was eagerly waiting to start his new preschool term as a kindergartner.

My kid’s preschool teacher asked to prepare an ‘All About Me book’ as part of their learning series. Always these DIY projects are challenging for me. Once we did a paper lantern decoration project for last year Lantern Festival.It was a good DIY project for us to bond.We also made a paper plate toucan when teacher asked to create a craft using paper plates.

As a mom I try to help my kid with ideas while allowing him to do most of his projects alone. Therefore I tried finding an idea for his All About Me book with things he can do alone.

At the beginning of this year, he was 4 years old and he just started writing without help. Therefore we used pages about him with his handwriting.As he cannot write much,I used simple questions about him which answers are easy to write.

First page of our ‘All About Me Book’ for Preschool Project

I printed few headings for the book to make it easier for the kid.

Below are some pages from this All About Me booklet which was fun in making. It was a great bonding time for both of us.

He loved writing about his interests on this ‘All About Me Book’ for Preschool

One of the pages of the booklet was filled with ‘Bitter gourd stamps’ which was fun to do.

At the end of the book, we also inserted few pages to show my kid’s interest and ability to arts and crafts.

This is his handprints

If you love to do DIY and art crafts with your kids, try such All About Me book. It is interesting and exciting way to spend time together.

Do you love DIY projects?Do you love Arts and crafts?How do you spend time with your kids together?Please share your thoughts below.

Paper Lantern Decoration with Preschooler : It’s a Zebra!

28 09 , 2017 6 Comments

I always like DIY projects. Though it is difficult to find time, I always try to add some personal touch creating something DIY for most family events including the Birthday parties. However now with my preschool going kid, I get opportunities to do arts and crafts at home spending time in really fun projects.

These projects are not only educational for my kid, but also these give me some relaxing time with opportunity to hang on something that I really like.

So, our recent craft project is this Zebra paper lantern. After our paper plate bird craft, school teachers sent request of joining to a lantern competition by decorating a paper lantern. School provided the white paper lantern. Our task was to decorate it with the kid for the lantern festival.

My kid loved to join with the lantern festival, so we received our paper lantern to decorate.

In Sri Lanka we make and decorate lanterns for the Vesak Day festival which is a Buddhist Festival. So, I have experience of decorating such Vesak lanterns. But, in Singapore these lanterns are for Mid-Autumn festival which I haven’t joined before. So, I didn’t have any clue on how to do the decoration.

After searching online for some ideas, together with my kid we decided to decorate it as a zebra. My kid loves animals. So, he wanted an animal face on the paper lantern.

Paper Lantern Decoration with Preschooler : How we did

Decorating the lantern was not so difficult once we have necessary paper cuttings.

Paper Lantern Decoration with Preschooler

We cut zebra’s eyes,mouth,nose etc before pasting those.

I used black colour paper and cut zebra’s eyes, mouth, nose and strips.

All the materials are ready!

My kid pasted those in the lantern. To paste those in the correct place, I helped the kid. He enjoyed applying glue and pasting those on the lantern.

After few easy steps, our lantern is ready! Don’t forget to paste zebra’s ears too.

Our Zebra Paper Lantern Decoration

The day which we had to bring the decorated lanterns,my kid was the earliest to the preschool.He woke up early and was so excited to show his zebra paper lantern to his teacher!

Does it look like a zebra? 🙂

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Paper Plate Toucan Craft with my Preschooler

12 09 , 2017 4 Comments

I always love arts and crafts with my kid. We enjoy our time together in such activities when we don’t play outside or when we don’t read books together. Last week was preschool holiday for our kid. On his last day to school term, teacher gave a pack of crafty material to each child asking to make a bird.

The material pack included paper plates, bottle caps and papers to use for making a bird. It sounded interesting for us.

Anyway,before reading further,check our latest craft: weather wheel for preschoolers.

Paper Plate Toucan craft with my preschooler — *Paper Plate Toucan*

However we had a busy week last few days and it was the last minute that I came up with this idea of creating a toucan using paper plates. I found this idea while searching for paper plate crafts images on Google and loved the idea.(Actually my kid selected the toucan from the different paper plate bird crafts I showed to him)

So, here is how we made this paper plate bird.

Materials:

Paper plates

Colouring pencils/crayon

Colour papers

Glue

Pair of scissors

How we made this Toucan paper plate craft:

Simply we placed the paper plates as in below picture. Cut plates into halves and shapes that make a toucan.

I asked my kid to colour the plates. He used his own imaginations and coloured the plates.

Finally we used glue to stick the paper plates together.

Our toucan is live now! My kid loved it and he was happy to take it with him to preschool on the first day of new preschool term!

Check more crafts from the blog:

DIY Cake Bunting Topper for Birthdays

11 09 , 2017 5 Comments

I made this DIY cake bunting topper for my son’s first birthday party.Though we ordered a cake for his first birthday,I also baked and decorated a simple cake as a smash cake.To make it more beautiful I made this cake bunting topper and it was super easy.

Here is how I made this DIY cake bunting topper.It’s really easy.

Supplies:

Cardstock of your choice of color
-Letter Stickers to say ‘Happy Birthday’ or printed letters (I used letters stickers)
-A beautiful Ribbon
– Glue
-2 Straws or wooden skewers

How to do:

Sketch out a flag bunting shape in a card. This will be used as a template.
Once the flag is sketched out, cut the template.

Using this template cut flags for the cake bunting using the cards stock. Cut 13 flags to say ‘Happy Birthday’. If you want to add the name of the baby, cut few more flags.
Now glue the letter s and stick those to each flag. Or use letter stickers.
Cut 2 pieces of ribbon. Make sure to cut it longer than required, so you have some length to tie etc.
Using a small dot of glue on the back top of each flag, stick all flags to the ribbon.
Because the cake is small and space is limited, make 2 strings of the banner. One for the word ‘Happy’ and the other for ‘Birthday’.
Now banner is ready.

Attach the banners using glue to the top end of straws or wooden skewers.
Now it is ready.
Insert this Cake topper to your Birthday cake.
A simple,beautiful and a customized cake is ready! 🙂

Do you like such DIY crafts to personalize your birthday parties?

Other than this DIY cake bunting topper,I also made a DIY animal themed birthday banner and a door banner too.These crafts made our birthday party beautiful!

3 Fun Projects to do with a Preschooler

07 09 , 2017 2 Comments

It is September school holidays in Singapore. Although it is a short holiday, keeping the kid busy without getting bored is not so easy. While I plan different activities to engage him during the day time, here are some of the ideas which we did before. These can be helpful for you if you look for activities to do with a preschooler. Even these activities are good for toddlers to keep them happy!

A Balloon drum

This is a noisy idea. But my kid loves to have a balloon drum whenever there is a burst balloon skin. To make this drum, you don’t need many skills. Just wrap the balloon skin over a cup or an empty tin using a rubber band. Your kid will have a new toy to enjoy at least for few hours!

Check the post about how to make this DIY Balloon Drum with a Balloon Skin

DIY Recycling bin

Recycling is a great cause to teach the kids from their younger age. By having a recycling bin at home, they will learn the value of recycling and treasure the earth. We made a recycling bin using an empty cardboard box. It was a lovely idea and my kid knows that we can recycle certain items.

Check how we made our DIY recycling bin

A cute party hat

Kids don’t want a special reason to party! I know that with experience of my kid. These days he loves pretend playing. So, a party hat is an easy way to help him to play with his toys creating a pretend party at home.

Check this easy DIY party hat. You will only need some colour papers and a band only!

Above are really simple and easy projects to do with a kid. I am sure you will have great time with your kid if you try these fun projects!

How to Create Beautiful Birthday Party Invitations

18 01 , 2016 No Comments

Throwing a kid’s birthday party is always exciting. Once you decide the birthday party theme, then it is time to organize. I always love themed birthday parties. It is exciting, it is beautiful and it is easy to organize. When you have a theme, you know what to buy, what to do by yourself and how to throw.

After deciding the birthday party theme, you need to plan your party decorations, birthday invitations and birthday party food. Your Birthday party invitation plays a major role of the party, because that is the cutest things go out from your home and give the hint of the party. If the birthday party invitation is really beautiful and if it shows the theme of the party, that conveys the message of a beautiful sweet and cute celebration!

How to Create Beautiful Birthday Party Invitations?

There are few ways to create a birthday invitation.

Do it Yourself

If you have computer skills with some design knowledge, then you can easily create your own birthday invitation. Simply you can use an image of your kid and add text on the image. That will create a personalized birthday invitation. Then print required quantity and send to the guests.

Buy Ready-made Birthday Invitations from your local store

You can buy birthday invitations from your local shop and fill the details and send to the guests. But, I am sure you cannot find the birthday invitation which exactly goes with your theme.

Use editable and Printable Birthday invitations

Another way you can do is, use printable invitations. You can visit www.sassabyparties.com and select birthday invitations which you like and which go with the theme. Once you select your favorite kids’ party invitations, download it. Save the files and edit as you like. Print the required quantity and send to the guests. You can use beautiful envelopes to send the birthday party invitations out.

Printable birthday party invitations are easy to use and will save your time. From the same shop, you can even buy printable party decorations and complete organizing your themed birthday party.

How do you create your kids party invitations? Do you like DIY birthday parties? Please share your thoughts.

DIY New Year Party Hat for Toddlers

31 12 , 2015 2 Comments

Today we spent few hours making some simple items for New Year celebrations. This year my son is 2 years old and he enjoys celebrations. Few months ago we celebrated his 2nd Birthday, although he didn’t have much idea on his simple birthday party on the day we celebrated, he started imaginary playing with birthday parties after few weeks of the party. So, that time I decided to do some activities focusing him for the New Year.

Today, 31st of December, I told him about the New Year. He understands it is something to celebrate and he is ready to welcome the New Year with his soft toys.

This is a simple party hat we both made. Although it is easier to buy party hats, DIY items are always good to engage with a toddler. So, I decided to spend few minutes and to create this New Year Party hat.

We used simple supplies which we found at home.

Things needed:
• cardstock paper
• tape
• stapler
• glue stick
• scissors
• Pen
• Paper punch as required

First we made confetti using colourful strips of paper. You can also use a paper punch to make circles to add to the collection of confetti.
I used an A4 size paper for the party hat.

First I wrote the greeting ‘Happy New Year’.

We decorated this paper using the confetti.

Then I used tape and staple to make a cone using the decorated paper.

Finally cut the edges of the party hat and make it round shape.

It is really simple and easy.
This is a few minute project to make a toddler happy when they are bit bored.

My son decided to use the party hat on his teddy bear. 🙂

And,Teddy is ready to welcome the New Year 2016!

Happy New Year 2016!

DIY Train Birthday Banner

19 11 , 2015 No Comments

I really like to have DIY Birthday banners than buying it. Simply, I am able to match the Birthday Banner with the party theme. We already celebrated our son’s 2nd Birthday and this time we picked the theme as ‘Train Birthday’. So everything from Birthday Cake to decorations is with the train theme.I had interesting time creating most of the decorations and Train Birthday Cake.My son really loved his train Birthday party!

DIY Train Birthday Banner

For the banner, I came up with this idea as a DIY train birthday banner. It was really easy to create this. You will only need few different colour papers and printed letters. Other supplies are like scissors and glue are also needed.

Here is how I finished this DIY train birthday banner. If you are throwing a train themed Birthday party, this idea may be helpful.

You need,
Colourful papers from different colours
Printed letters which says your message
A pair of scissors
Glue
A ribbon
Punch

Here is how we made this DIY Train Birthday banner.

First cut colour papers into squares of the size you want your train themed birthday banner.

Also cut rectangles from another colour.(As shown in photos)

Also cut the letters from the printed paper.

Using a color combination,paste rectangles on the square shapes.

Then paste letters accordingly.

Finaly cut small circles to pretend the wheels of the train.Paste those on the squares.(Wagons of the train)

You will have beautiful set of letter wagons of the train.

Punch holes on each squares and thread a ribbon through each to make it as a birthday banner.

Now,wagons of the train banner is ready.We need the train engines.

Using few colour papers,I simply cut the engine shape.Actualy I didnt use any template.

Then I used anothe colour squares,rectangles and circles to create the windows and wheels of the 3 engines.

Finally,we pasted those engines on the wall and our Train Birthday banner was ready for the party!

Is this cute?Please let me know your idea.Do you like to make your own Birthday banner?

Also check our Animal themed 1st Birthday Party banner tutorial.

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DIY Posts

Happy Teachers Day 2019

All About Me Book for Preschool

Paper Lantern Decoration with Preschooler : It’s a Zebra!

Paper Lantern Decoration with Preschooler : How we did

Paper Plate Toucan Craft with my Preschooler

Check more crafts from the blog:

DIY Cake Bunting Topper for Birthdays

3 Fun Projects to do with a Preschooler

How to Create Beautiful Birthday Party Invitations

How to Create Beautiful Birthday Party Invitations?

DIY New Year Party Hat for Toddlers

DIY Train Birthday Banner

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