When Our ‘Arts and Crafts’ Session is *finally* Back!
We’ve always had ‘arts and crafts’ session at home back in Singapore.
We made stuff. We drew and scribble. We used our recyclables to make things =)
We kinda stopped having such sessions when I got busy with our mad ‘relocation busy-ness’ though. I just couldn’t manage to find the time.
By now, we’ve been here in Jakarta for 5 weeks, and I’m just glad that the kids and I managed to start spending some ‘arts and crafts’ time *again* today!
And I must say, it was nice seeing them both drawing, choosing which crayon colours to use, and focusing their attention on what they’re creating.
To me, it’s definitely way much better than seeing them sitting quietly watching TV!
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Note:
In today’s drawing activity, here’s what we did:
– I encouraged the kids to draw something in the middle of the drawing paper
– We then drew wavy lines ‘outwards’ and used a marker to darken all lines
– The kids used vibrant crayon colours and filled everything with colour
– They then outlined all lines with black crayons.
I love the vibrant colours. And as they coloured their drawings, they did feel the same way too.
You see, sometimes the kids feel ‘too lazy’ to colour their sketches. ‘It takes too long to colour everything’ is the usual excuse.
I’m okay with them not colouring their drawings, BUT if they ‘always’ avoid colouring their drawings because they’re ‘lazy’, then I feel that’s just not right.
And so as they saw how nice their colourful drawings gradually turned out, I casually shared with them how God splashed so much wonderful colours in His creations. Under the sea, on land, beautiful sunset, everything. Imagine a black&white underwater world, I said … Errr, that’ll be boring and dull, they said.
I think they got the message =)
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Hi Leonny,
Just wondering how do you organise your kids’ art and craft projects,be it from home or those done in school? I have 2 older kids,6 and 5 and a 1mth old baby..There are tonnes of art and craft projects from school alone and I’m at a loss of how to organise them esp since some are bulky (lanterns,stuff from recycled items etc).I feel guilty if i were to throw them away BUT there’s really a lack of space..perhaps,i should document and taking photos before. i throw them will make it less guilty?? Help!!
I totally understand! Our craft sessions also took a break for a while, and when we finally did one, it felt so good. I said to Poppy “I missed this, Poppy” and she said “Me too, Mama”. It’s such a blessing to be able to spend time with our kids and doing things with them 🙂 Hope you’re settling in well in your new home!
Hi Adora,
Great to hear from you =) hope everything is well with you and your little ones too!
We’re settling alright here … Things have been good and we’re grateful everyday …
Spending time with the older ones when we have a baby in the house is so much more challenging. Not impossible, just realistically not easy…