cool fun stuffs created

My youngest may not be good in her studies, however she has her way of creating new fun stuffs such as this writing / drawing board. Pardon her wrong spelling but I think this is cool 

 

getting started with jigsaw puzzle

 

It all started when I was decluttering and found some treasures ... puzzles. I love to do them when I was young and single and carefree and with time to spare. Nowadays it's luxury if I can find time to sleep. The boxes of puzzles are still with plastic cling wrap so I will never throw them. I was busy taking pictures and started asking around almost every group in my messaging list to see if anyone interested and passionate about jigsaw puzzle. Managed to give some of the big pieces floor puzzle to neighbour's niece. Other than that, no one seem to be into jigsaw nowadays. 

Lucky enough, a close friend in one of my usual 'talk everything' group suggested that I keep them for my children ... which turn out to be the best idea. Jigsaw puzzle develop our brain, our focus, our perseverance, our patience. All in all, it's a great tool for children development. So, over the weekend I try to get children to get started, hoping that once started then it's no going back, they will be like their mother.

Lucky luck was on my side, we started with some 'quick win' to gain interest. Something small and achievable ie. 120 pieces with colourful pictures to build up interest and confidence. Hopefully the rest will fall in place and like they say, the rest is history. 

In retrospect, this mco seem to be a blessing in disguise. It makes me stop, take a breather and do things I won't usually do (or rather things I won't usually have time to do). If no mco, I wouldn't be so diligently cleaning and clearing my home, and if I don't clear I won't find the jigsaw puzzles, and if I find with the busy schedule, we may not have time to explore...

This is just the beginning, I know it's still a long way to go...but never try never know

Chinese checkers ... playing it like how it used to be

 

Long long ago, my mother used to play this game with us. We could spend the whole night transferring our 'people' to the opposite site of the star. 

Holiday night we did the same thing .. taught the children to play this game a.k.a Chinese checkers (with the help of Mrs. Youtube) and we spent the whole night playing. It really help us to be patient and to strategize how to shift all our seeds to the opposite corner of the star. 

I'm thankful I get to introduce this game to my children, adding on to games we can play together as a family. Hoping I can open up their mind to more board / table games like these.

a different ball game

ah dear was airing some plastic box and plastic drawers the other day.
I was feeding little ah bi when the kor kor jie jie keeps bugging me to play with them.
So out of desperation, I came out with a different ball game for them.
Asked them to pour all the balls into the plastic box, took a ball of each colour and place them into different drawers.
Voila, a new colour ball sorting game. 
and they repeated the game for 3 rounds ... sorting and mixing back and sorting and mixing back.
To up the ball game, I told them got TIME LIMIT
so they got excited all over again....LOL
(ya, I just pretend to count down ie..10 minutes left...9 minutes left... 8 minutes left...)
Well at least the excitement lasted for about half an hour, just enough for me to feed ah bi and let her sleep.