We did something really nice in this session. Since we expected the attendance would be quite low, Mummy Cheng Sim suggested that we do something messy this time, and instead of having craft, we did food painting. See how to do.
To add to the excitement of this session, Mummy Vignes, who was supposed to do [...]
Stories: presented by Mummy Cheng Sim & Mummy Audrey
Crafts: Little Caterpillar (prepared by Mummy Cheng Sim)
Caterpillar ideas here
Mummy Cheng Sim came up with an interesting idea on the caterpillar craft. For more details of the craft, read here. With a caterpillar on hand each after the craft session, she told a story about the hungry [...]
Story: The Lion and the Proud Fox (by me)
Crafts: Beans Art (by me) & CD Clock (full heartedby prepared by Mummy Jane)
Highlights
Last saturday, at the playgroup, we had 2 crafts, with one additional during the free play session. For children who would like to do some art work, we provide them some beans (u can [...]
Meredith busy working on the presentation
Everyone is contributing his piece of thought
In our strategic planning yesterday, our principal has decided to hold a recognition nite for their dhamma school students. The idea of having some different categories of award, more of value based, for the students seems to be a quite interesting. Then it came [...]
This is a must share tips for parents who wish to teach their children read the clock. A very fantastic idea from Mummy Jane from our Saturday’s playgroup, she came up with this idea of making a clock from recycle items which everyone has, a CD! For more details on the clock making, standing clock [...]
There are many debates about the usage of Rewarding System for little one, but just to add fun to my playgroup, I have decided to introduce the sticker reward system to our little children for their corporative and good behaviour, especially after our Puja activity and story telling. More like a positive reinforcement and not [...]
Last week’s playgroup was really fun. All 15 children turn up and boy, it was really crowded, especially in our closed area. However, they must have a great deal of fun, and the mums too, as u can see in the pictures below.
The parents are busy chatting away while the children are busy munching on [...]
During the Sg.Long buddhist society last saturday, Bro. Charlie did mention about drum circle activity. What is a drum circle? It is a group of people who play musical instruments, trying to harmonise together creating a rhythm and get in tune with each other and themselves. Instead of a teacher, there is a facilitator – [...]
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Story:Â (presented by Mummy Audrey Seet)
Craft: Photo frame (prepared by Mummy Vignes)
Highlights:
We planned to go to an outing again, in this coming July, and this time we will be going to the Zoo to see the animals! This outing will be a  Sunday, so working fathers can join and it will be [...]
Stories: specially presented by our special guest, Mummy Mee Yuen
Crafts: Father’s day sweet box (heartedly prepared by Mummy Kelly)
Materials: box cut into half, a teddy picture
Highlights
This week we have our special guest, Mummy Mee Yuen who join us on the story telling session. Mee Yuen is very experience is story telling, and to capture the [...]
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Story: Goodnite Gorilla, Bumppy builds a palace & Cock amoo-moo (gracefully presented by Mummy Cheng Sim)
Crafts: Paper plate rattles (heartedly prepared by Mummy Joanne)
Materials: 2 paper plates, some beans, stapler, ribbons
Higlights
The members of our playgroup has grown tremendously in just 3 months, when we started in April. All [...]
As the saying goes, picture tells a thousand words…
Activities: Free play, cotton wool sheep craft, had a long break and sang some songs towards the end.
Highlight
Last weekend most of us had a good long holiday, either here in local or outstation. On sat, only four mums turned up and we had a leisure session (on [...]
Story: Jack & the Beanstalk (presented by Audrey Yap)
Craft: Paper Elephant (prepared by me)
Material: Bits of recycle paper (squares or round), a cut out shape of an elephant, a eye and tail shape.
Method: Paste the papers onto the elephant. Kids love play with sticky glue so i cook a big bowl of starch and let [...]
Story: The Race of the Rabbit & the Tortise (prepared by Mummy Kristin)
Craft: Rabbit and Tortise Paper Headband (prepared by Mummy Siaw Wei)
Materials: Paper strips, cut out pictures of tortise and rabbit, doublesided tape/ stapler, scissors
Highlight: The children created the headband for the story telling. Baby audrey (with the rabbit headband) could act out the [...]
Since our playgroup started in Sg.Long, I have been thinking what’s the best way to get the best name tag for our kids. Initially we used the label sticker type, but most of us tend to forget (or rather lazy) to go and write each time we are there. If we were to use the [...]
