Recycle plastic container lantern 30 September 2012

Our strawberry plastic container lantern with tea light candle! :)

Homemade Toys 25 November 2011

Stilts made out of discarded bed frame found in a refuse room.

En's painted kite.

Bamboo found from the forest in one of our camping trip.

Oven.

Kitchen stove, with all sort of boxes.

Found a corner where En made a squatting toilet with two styrofoams!

DIY Kitchen Wash Basin 30 July 2011

A lot of thought goes into how to secure the tap into the box, where it should be and then how the pipe should look like. Given the opportunity, En and Hui suggested ideas and even sketched out design to illustrate their point to Dad. Dad did the cutting and taping.

Puppet Theatre 12 May 2011

Idea from Childhood101.

En finally has a new theatre to play with. The old ones has collapsed and was sent to recycling centre.

I got a treat to enhui's puppet show instantly.

Road Layout 1 November 2010

En was reluctant to let her sis joined in the project. She told me, Hui will scribble on it. I replied  'You are concern Hui will scribble on it. Discuss with her'.

En tactfully asked her sis, "Would you like to paint on an art paper?(trying to entice Hui away from the project) " Hui happily answered "Yay"

So, the beginning part was a bliss. En painted on the road-layout cardboard while Hui on the art paper.

When Hui finished, she asked "May I paint too?"
En  : "Do you want another piece of art paper or I hold your hand to paint if you want to join?"
Hui :  I want to paint on my own. *sob sob* (using crying tactic)

En  :  You must follow my instruction on the colour, okay?
Hui : Okay.

Both painted together and Hui followed the colour that En wanted.
En gave me a small patch to paint. I painted some green grass.
A short moment later, Hui asked me, "May I paint on your side too?"

Me : Yes, come on.

En : Hui, okay you paint this side (giving her a corner patch) and you can paint anything you like.

All busy painting.  En broke the silence and asked her sister " Are you happy painting?"
Hui : Yes
En: Yes, it 's a happy painting day.

 It's a simple acknowledged-helped En deal with her feeling.  She has learnt to let go that little toddler Hui would scribble and simply enjoy painting together.

DIY playdough 27 October 2010

Wednesday night fun.
2 cups of plain flour
4 tb sp cream of tartar
2 tb sp of cooking oil
1 cup of salt
2 cups of boiling water
Food colouring

B'day Banner! DIY Pinata! Hui is 3 ! 29 May 2010

Saturday afternoon.
The same old birthday banner is up again. We have been using it since En was one!

This year, we made our own pinata ! (Thanks to aunty YL). It was a family project.

For decoration, En drew a princess castle picture and some other girly stuff  while Hui cut pictures of princesses she likes from the magazine. We wrapped the empty Kenwood Thermo Pot box up with those pictures.

Dad slit the 3"x3"x3" flap at the bottom as the door trap. He cut many small slits thru the flap where we slot in ribbons loosely. The ribbon that opens the door trap was knotted tightly from the inside of the  flap.

Rice crackers + RM1 notes + 20cent coins as goodies,

Interior view of pinata filled with goodies. Dad tied a string on top to hang up pinata.

Left- A warm lovely homemade pinata.
Right- Door trap is covered with a piece of paper.



Sunday night. 6 June 2010.
Total 25 family members cramped the tiny home with just one 3-seater couch created a natural sauna for all.

En dressed up with her self-made costume made out of cornflakes box, proudly proclaimed "I am cornflakes!". She also put up a sign at the corridor leading the guests to our nest. Hui chose to wear home plain clothes!

Left- Another sign by En, stating "Hui En". Right- Decorated by me!

 

Left- Fusion party food. Buffet style. Right- Presentssss :)

 Party games began right after the children has eaten. There are 10 games in total.

Left-(1) " 'Secret Stickers' - stick stickers at the back of someone without the person knowing it! First one who stick all 5 stickers win. " Wil was seen sticking Hui's back with one! :)

Right-(2) " 'Toilet Roll?' - take toilet papers as much as you think you need for the game." Children raised their eyebrows and did as told ! Then, they were told that the shortest toilet papers win the game! huh

 

(3) " 'HaHaHa' - the first child says Ha, the second child says HaHa, it adds on and on.. " En was trying to remember the number of HaHaHa she has to say ;)

 

(4) " 'Pin a tail on Maizy' adapted from 'Pin a tail on a donkey' "

(5) 'Limbo Rock' .. every limbo boy and girl, all around the limbo world, gonna do the limbo rock, all around the limbo clock,  da da da da da da

(6) 'Lucky draw' by birthday girl. All waited around her while dad told her to pick one from the pink bowl.

Left-(7) " 'Freezed dance' -move with Dancing Queen tune & freeze when music stops. You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life, see that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the dancing queen...

Right-(8) 'Pull-string pinata'. Little 20months old Sonya pulled as well. :) 

(9) " 'Snatch an item'  12 items are shown. Send a child away. Another child snatch one item and hide. When the child returns, she will guess what item is missing. " :)

 

(10) 'Truth or Dare', the last game. En got a question of 'what is the strangest dream that she had' and was talking about it. :)

Left- Both Wil & Meng excitedly reading the question revealed.

Right- Wil picked a dare slip 'Let the one sitting right to you, do your hair & use it for the rest of the party!' 

 

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, .....

Left- The moment that EnHui awaiting for...

Right- Hui slept as an angel, (Yes, wearing the costume.) 

En uttered "wow! It is a great party" and Hui added "Yes, I am happy" .

Happy 3rd Birthday Z hui, I am glad I have you and thank you for forgiving my mistakes, always. I love you with all my heart. And I am so happy to have breastfed you for 34 months...I enjoy every moment of it. Thank you, Z Hui.

Make rubber stamp and En's wobble board & poster 7 March 2010

Sunday afternoon.
I bought some cheap erasers from popular bookshop and let EnHui designed their own rubber stamps. They love it and I helped with the carving.

En made her own wobble board.

Sunday night

En was caught busy at work!

She designed a poster and sticked it on the wall.