Pasting Craft for Toddler

Abigail was down with viral infection. During the days she was at home, she done this craft.

Materials
1. Creep paper (few colours)
2. Paper

Steps
I drew a flower on a white paper.
Prepare the creep paper by cutting into smaller pieces and roll it.
Then get Abigail to paste the creep paper on the flower.
I first start with yellow colour with her after completed, red one, then green one. She put glue and do the pasting all by herself.
After completed the craft and let it dry up. Then I paste it into a bigger paper.
I let her choose some sticker to decorate the card.
Lastly, I hold her hand to write those wording.

This craft is very simple and it's suitable for toddler to do. Abigail was 3.5 years old when she did this and she can do it all by herself. In fact the rolling part, she can participate too. If you have the time, can get the child to roll the paper and do the pasting all by the child. I believe the child can handle and perhaps they will enjoy doing it. :)

Birthday Card for popo

God helps us learn

The theme for Lesson 2 is God helps us learn.
Proverbs 2:6 - God helps us learn.

I went through this, picture by picture with Abigail. Asked her one by one whether is she able to do it?

Picture 1 - tie my shoe

(she can wear her shoes but not tie her shoes, I circle it as she is not able to do it yet)

Picture 2 - brush my teeth

(I put a tick as she's able to brush her own teeth without any help)

Picture 3 - wash my hands

(I put a tick as she's able to wash her own hands without any help, even with soap)

Picture 4 - arrange my books

(I give her a tick, she can arrange her books but not in perfect order, well... still deserve a tick)

Picture 5 - make my bed

(she is still learning to fold her blanket, I circle it... area to improve)

Picture 6 - kick a ball

(Oh yes! she can kick a ball! A big tick for this!)

I prepared a map like this

Then draw different shapes on it.

I asked Abigail to name me what shapes she wanted, as she said, I drew it.

After that, I hold her hand, teaching her how to use the scissors.

She's ok with straight line, still need guidance. Not able to do it on her own yet. Need to have more practices on this. After cutting them out, I stick it on a black paper and then get her to stick the right shapes at the right place. From here, she can learn a few things.

1. What is a map. How did a map look like? Where are we staying? Where are other countries?

2. Shapes (the child may knew it already)

3. Cutting/using scissors

4. Matching shapes and sticking.

It's simple and fun. Abigail likes it! :)

Painting time again.

Playgroup

My church will be starting a playgroup (for children age 3-5 years old) commencing January 2011.

The class will be covering phonics, maths, art and craft, singing, games, hands on activity, etc. The teacher who lead the playgroup is an experience kindergarten teacher who is also a certified teacher for helping special children (Autistic, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, AD/HD).

If you're interested to let your children join this playgroup, please let me know.

Details:
Venue: 47 Jalan SS21/56B Damansara Utama 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Day: Saturday (fortnightly)
Time: 2.00 – 3.30pm

Here is the invitation card.

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more Angels...

The continuation of last lesson.

Story taken from Luke 2:20
8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

Objective:
God fulfilled His promise by sending the Messiah, the Saviour to come to this earth and to save mankind from sins.

Memory Verse:
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Craft:
1. Cut paper plate into half
2. Take one half and seal the ends together to form a cone shape.
3. Cut hands and wings out of the other half of the plate and stick on the cone.
4. Draw eyes on the face and glue to the body. Use toothpick at the back to keep the head up.
5. Make a halo as deco.

Paper plate angel craft

Craft idea from Crafty-Crafted

Angel

We have started the Christmas lessons for the last two weeks.

We started with the story of Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and told her that God has chosen her and she will be pregnant and to name this baby Jesus. Then Angel Gabriel appeared to Joseph and asked him to take Mary as wife and take care of her and to name the baby, Jesus.

The details of the Bible Story:
Matthew 1:18-25
18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about[d]: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet[e] did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.

20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,[f] because he will save his people from their sins.”
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”[g] (which means “God with us”).
24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25 But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.


Luke 2:1-7
1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register.

4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

Objective:
God fulfilled His promise by sending the Messiah, the Saviour to come to this earth and to save mankind from sins.

Memory Verse:
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Craft:
1. Get the child to trace his/her handprint on yellow paper and footprint on a foam.
2. After cutting them out, stick the handprint at the back of the footprint (as wings).
3. Draw a face and stick eyes for the angel.
4. Put a gold belt (and deco the belt if you want to) for the angel.

a simple angle craft for toddler

Idea from DLTK

Thank You Card

17 Nov, 2010

It was a public holiday. We did not go anywhere... morning James brought Joshua to see doctor as he had a bad cough. Joshua had a nebulizer at the clinic and he's on antibiotic as he his throat was infected and it's red. He had no fever, just cough, flu and a lot of phlegm. After the nebulizer, he's very much better, less cough.

After Joshua went for his afternoon nap, I did a Thank You card with Abigail for her teacher as Friday will be the last day of the school. Ms Cheryl, her kindy teacher will stop teaching in her kindy and go for full timer worker in her church. So, I want Abigail to learn to thank her teacher for teaching her.

I prepared the materials:
1. a trophy on gold or silver paper (your choice)
2. 3 pockets for the card to write notes on it
3. a triangle shape paper for the trophy and small flowers in different colours
4. wording for the card (your choice for the wording)
5. photo (I suppose wanted to put Abigail & Ms Cheryl's photo but I don't manage to take a photo of them)

Craft:
After cutting out all the materials (paper).
1. I folded an A4 paper into half as my main card then I first get Abigail to stick (with help) the trophy on the paper. If your child cannot stick the paper orderly, you can hold her hands as you do the sticking.
2. After that I hold her hands to stick the three pocket at the side of the card. Then I get her to stick three flowers on the pocket. Up to her where she wants it to be and her choice of the colour.
3. Then I prepare three smaller red card to put three notes on it. "Thank you for teaching me ABC", Thank you for teaching me 123" and Thank you for loving me. I slot the three cards into the three pockets.
4. Then I hold her hands to write "Teacher of the Year 2010" on the yellow colour triangel shape paper and stick it on the trophy. Then I hold her hands to put some glittering items on it.
5. After the cover page is done and dry up. Then I get her to stick the wording inside, "God Loves You".
6. On the other side, I hold her hand and wrote "Thank you Ms Cheryl for teaching me".
7. And finally, I stick her photo on it and hold her hands to write her name on it.

The card is done!  :)

Jesus listened to the teachers

The continuation of Lesson 1 taken from Luke 2:41-52.

I repeat the story of Luke 2:41-52 with Abigail and as I share the story, I asked question to see how much she can remember. I repeat the story with her through out the week and by the time I cover this activity with her, she can remember a few highlight of the story like this,

When Jesus was 12 years old, his papa and mama brought him to Jerusalem for Passover Festival. After that, Jesus did not follow his papa and mama home. He stayed back in the church but his papa and mama did not know. After travelled one day, they realised that Jesus is not with them and they went back to find him. "Jesus! Jesus! Where are you!" His papa and mama went back to Jerusalem to find Jesus. At the end, they found Jesus was in the church, Jesus is listening to the teachers.

Those underlined were what Abigail can remember. As I share, I paused and she fill in the blank. :) She enjoy this way of sharing story where she can participate.

After the lesson, I get her to paint the verse, Luke 2:46 - Jesus listened to the teachers.

I first get her to trace her name then hold her hand to write the date.

Then I get her to choose a colour and I prepare the it for her.

I hold her hand to colour the letter J

and then she do the rest of all the letters.

Yes. without my help!

I just helped to prepare the colour.

It looks a little messy to me but she's so happy that she did this. After she completed this painting, she told me "mama, I'm very tired" :) I guess she really put all her effort in this painting.