Christmas Sensory Tub

This sensory tub is especially for this holiday season. I decided not to spend extra money for this sensory tub, thus I get whatever I can find that the colours in red and green in this sensory tub. 

Things in the tub:

• Used fruit juice bottles
• Bells
• Bottle caps
• Paper stars
• Paper hearts
• Pom Poms
• Blocks
• Craft sticks
• Empty bottles
• Spoons and scoops

While playing with this sensory tub, they are practicing their find motor skills like scooping, spooning and measuring.

Advent Calendar Activities: Day 15 - 25

Day 15: Tell the Christmas Story (nativity) from picture cards. 

I had printed out the nativity bible cards. Y had to sort it in order and then retell the nativity story. (I forgot where I got the source of this picture cards )

Day 16: Watch a Christmas Movie. We watched the movie at home. The movie is found on YouTube - Mickey Mouse Christmas movie.

Day 17: Make Christmas gift - salt dough beads. I had found this on Pinterest. So decided to give it a try. 

We used the disposable chopsticks to make the hole of the beads. However, some holes were too small after baking in oven. Kids were using felt tip marker to decorate the beads. Kids really loves their own creation. They used the beads to make a necklace. 

Day 18: Bake cookies - raisin cookies. This was our first attempt in baking cookies. The look of the end product was not good looking, thus no photo taken. 

Day 19: Family game night. I bought the Monopoly junior - party theme from Westgate during opening sale. Y loves this very much. However it still a bit tough for F. 

Day 20: Pray for the needy.

Day 21: Play with felt Christmas tree decoration. There different colours of felt in different shapes as ornaments for the Christmas tree.

Day 22: Watch nativity movie which found on YouTube. 

Day 23: Eat dinner by candlelight

Day 24: We went to church for Christmas Eve service, and we sang a lot of Christmas songs there.

Day 25: Merry Christmas!

Homeschool Theme - Desert Animals

Y is so interested in animals. So this time round I decided to teach him about desert animals. I bought the safari toob of desert animals, then created the 3 parts card for these animals. 

The self check for the matching is done by the color dots. 

Advent Calendar Activities: Day 6 - 14

These are the advent calendar activities that we had done for day 6 - 14.

Day 6: Pray for family and friends in the festive season

Day 7: Have a family camp out in the living room

Day 8: Read a Christmas story from the Bible (Read with me Bible)

Day 9: Nativity colour by number - I printed it from Internet.

Day 10: Read a Christmas book - We read the book Santa Duck and His Merry Helpers

Day 11: Make a Christmas paper wreath. The doughnut shape cardboard was cut from cereal box. And the paper strips are recycle papers from magazine and pamphlets. We are using Christmas colours for the wreath - red and green.

Day 12: Do a Christmas maze

Day 13: Count the blessings from God

Day 14: Drive around to see Christmas light - We went to Orchard road to see Christmas lighting. It was drizzling.

Advent Calendar Activity - Day 1 to 5

On day 1, we learnt the new Christmas song, "Christmas isn't Christmas". We never heard this song before until a friend told me about this song last Sunday. 

Day 2: Kids colored Christmas coloring page which I printed them from online coloring pages.

Day 3: Make paper snowflakes. Instead of using white paper, I decided to recycle the papers from broucher, pamphlet, etc. Thus, they were colourful snowflakes, which I used them to decorate the house (paste on the cupboard in the living room).

Day 4: We were also using unwanted broucher, pamphlets, etc to make paper chain for decorations.

Day 5: Kids are working on nativity word search, that I found from Internet. It is quite difficult for F, but Y enjoyed it.

Advent Calendar 2013

This is the 1st time we start the Advent Calendar, actually it is last minute plan to have it.

These origami pockets are fold by using used wrapping paper, and hang at the window. 

These are activities planned for this year Advent Calendar, and hopefully I am able to follow it throughout the countdown to Christmas.
Day 1: Learn new Christmas song
Day 2: Colour a Christmas colouring page
Day 3: Make paper snowflakes
Day 4: Make paper chain
Day 5: Do a Christmas word search
Day 6: Pray for family and friends in the festive season
Day 7: Have a family camp out in the living room
Day 8: Read a Christmas story from the Bible
Day 9: Nativity colour by number
Day 10: Read a Christmas book
Day 11: Make a Christmas paper wreath
Day 12: Do a Christmas maze
Day 13: Count the blessings from God
Day 14: Drive around to see Christmas light
Day 15: Tell or act out the Christmas story
Day 16: Watch Christmas movie
Day 17: Make Christmas gift
Day 18: Bake cookies
Day 19: Family game night
Day 20: Pray for the needy
Day 21: Play with felt Christmas tree decoration
Day 22: Watch Nativity movie
Day 23: Eat dinner by candlelight
Day 24: Sing Christmas songs
Day 25: It's Christmas! Enjoy and stay with family!