Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

I don’t know if you’ve visited Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden this month. They have three christmas trees with recycled ornaments on them! I thought that’s such a good idea!

Kids and parents can make these ornaments at their ‘arts and crafts’ corner and choose where they’d like to place them when they’re done!

Anyway, this was how our recent trip there went.

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After playing at the tree house, we checked out the ‘Music Hut’! Vai kept asking me to sing something while they both tried to make noises from the musical instruments at the same time.

Gee, we were so noisy! Thank goodness there was hardly anyone else around at the time!

And, of course the kids got themselves busy at the sand area too! (we skipped the waterplay this time round)

And just when we’re about to leave, I noticed an ‘arts and crafts’ corner and three christmas trees with all sorts of recycled ornaments made by previous visitors.

They have a little table with tiny chairs (perfect for small kids!), and lots of arts and crafts materials (glitters, scissors, glue, tinsels, crayons, strings, etc). AND, next to it, a table FULL of recyclables! Stuff like, cereal boxes, containers, coloured paper, styrofoam cups, paper plates and egg cartons!

And as I stood there observing the big pile and the arts and crafts table, I was momentary feeling VERY happy! Haha, I know it’s weird, but I really felt a little tingle in my heart!

It’s as if I’ve landed on free Recyclables and Arts&Crafts Land!

Vai, who starts to find cutting paper into little bits very intriguing lately, immediately got himself busy cutting coloured paper and tinsels with his pattern-edged scissors. We spread some glue on the lid of a plastic egg carton and he sprinkled whatever he’s cut onto it. That’s his ornament.

Anya made a little necklace using plastic egg cartons (the bits where the eggs are placed), tinsels, glue and a string. She made a few other little stuff and cut out some snowflake patterns too.

And when they’re done, they went to the less ornamented tree and hung what they just made there.

[Vai’s artwork is the one on the left]

It was close to 3pm when we left, and both kids felt asleep on our bus ride back!