I have this planned 2 weeks before Easter Day that falls o
n 22 May this year. I bought 2 sets of egg painting dyes, chocolate eggs, eggs shells...from Cold Storage so that I can have some activities with the children on Easter. Last year, we did our egg painting at East Coast. This year, I have decided to do it differently. We will have our egg painting at home, by the car pouch area. Ashley is reluctant to my idea at fir
st, by after I point to the sky (which is dark, as if it will rain anytime), she gives in to my suggestion. The children are excited when I take out the egg dye. Learning from the experience last year, I have made some 'improvements' this year. Last year, we use water colours on real eggs (which I n
eed to hard boiled the eggs) and the colours smerge our hands even though the paint dries up (coz our hands may be moist from sweat). As such, I replace the water colours with colour dyes and ping pong balls from real eggs, saving the trouble from cooking the eggs before painting. Each child gets to paint 2 eggs, including me. I start off by showing the children how to handle the dyes carefully, avoiding directly contacts with fingers and clothing which stains. I am quite confident that As
hley can handle it well, but Cieran..... will be tricky. Nonetheless, I am prepared that Cieran will create a mess. Ash
ley choose red dye for her 1st egg to start with, while Cieran goes for blue-his favourite colour. As for me, I go for yellow. The children are very engrossed in their artwork. I have fun as well. As expected, Cieran has his fingers stained with dyes.... which will take few days to wash off. Check out our creations! Whose
eggs was the best 'decorated'? This was only part 1 of our artwork.... part 2 was to be continued another day. The next day awaits us with 
more fun activity. We are going to make our own orange agar agar! The children are trilled over the cooking activity. I have them involved in preparing the ingredients needed for agar agar. We have gone to the supermarket to choose the oranges and buy the agar agar powder. The children have also help to bring in the chairs while I carry the table into the kitchen. The children are excited to squeeze orange juice needed for the agar agar making. Instead of using the electric juice blender, I use the 'tradit
ional' squeezer so that the children get their hands on squeezin
g the juice out. It is a joy that the children have showed 'teamwork' in their task. They 
take turns to squeeze the oranges. After hardwork of about 25mins, we manage to collect 1 full rice-bowl sized of orange juice. The children's face glow with satisfaction! Next, we need to boil the water and mix the agar agar powder and sugar. Both children, standing on their stools watch with interest. The children both get a chance to stir the mixture by the stove while I get the moulds ready. Cieran, who is still young and as a boy lose interest after a few stirring and left to play. Only Ashley stays on and assist in the cooking. After I sco
op the mixture into the moulds, Ashley helps to put them into the fridge. She has show tremendous interest in cooking from the start, till the completion. Good Job Ashley! I enjoy the bonding time spend with the children and I do believe the
y have lots of fun as well. I shall think of more simple cooking session with them in near future. :-) How do you like our orange agar agar? On Sunday, the children prefers to work on a new craft work-sad craft instead of completing part 2 of our eggs painting. Since 
this is suppose to be a fun, enjoyable weekends activity, I let them decide. The children help by laying the table with newspaper, while I get the 
crafts ready. I have got the same designs for the 3 of us (to avoid fighting over designs). After demonstrating how to stick the sand on the picture, we are on our own freedom to let imagination go wild... by selecting colours of own liking on the picture. We have great fun on our sand craft. Both children take pride in their own art work. Several times, Cieran will run over to sh
ow his daddy the added on sand colours on his picture. While working on his craft, Cieran has also mention that he will gives his art work to his teacher from Lorna. Take a look at our crafts... don't you think it's beautiful? I will get more of such crafts again, so that we can have fun working on it again next time. What a enjoyable weekends we had!
more fun activity. We are going to make our own orange agar agar! The children are trilled over the cooking activity. I have them involved in preparing the ingredients needed for agar agar. We have gone to the supermarket to choose the oranges and buy the agar agar powder. The children have also help to bring in the chairs while I carry the table into the kitchen. The children are excited to squeeze orange juice needed for the agar agar making. Instead of using the electric juice blender, I use the 'tradit
ional' squeezer so that the children get their hands on squeezin
g the juice out. It is a joy that the children have showed 'teamwork' in their task. They 
take turns to squeeze the oranges. After hardwork of about 25mins, we manage to collect 1 full rice-bowl sized of orange juice. The children's face glow with satisfaction! Next, we need to boil the water and mix the agar agar powder and sugar. Both children, standing on their stools watch with interest. The children both get a chance to stir the mixture by the stove while I get the moulds ready. Cieran, who is still young and as a boy lose interest after a few stirring and left to play. Only Ashley stays on and assist in the cooking. After I sco
op the mixture into the moulds, Ashley helps to put them into the fridge. She has show tremendous interest in cooking from the start, till the completion. Good Job Ashley! I enjoy the bonding time spend with the children and I do believe the
y have lots of fun as well. I shall think of more simple cooking session with them in near future. :-) How do you like our orange agar agar? On Sunday, the children prefers to work on a new craft work-sad craft instead of completing part 2 of our eggs painting. Since 
this is suppose to be a fun, enjoyable weekends activity, I let them decide. The children help by laying the table with newspaper, while I get the 
crafts ready. I have got the same designs for the 3 of us (to avoid fighting over designs). After demonstrating how to stick the sand on the picture, we are on our own freedom to let imagination go wild... by selecting colours of own liking on the picture. We have great fun on our sand craft. Both children take pride in their own art work. Several times, Cieran will run over to sh
ow his daddy the added on sand colours on his picture. While working on his craft, Cieran has also mention that he will gives his art work to his teacher from Lorna. Take a look at our crafts... don't you think it's beautiful? I will get more of such crafts again, so that we can have fun working on it again next time. What a enjoyable weekends we had!
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