A to Z crafts - R for Rabbit

Rabbit is a favourite animal to many children, probably because it is too cute to resist.

I wanted to do a craft that's cute and pretty, thus I had chosen this one for my letter R lesson.

The craft is adapted from a Chinese website (refer to the link on the picture), the picture below is pretty clear on how you should go about doing it. Basically you only need to cut 2 pieces of white paper into the shape of its legs and head, roll it and paste it together.

See their happy faces with their rabbits. By the way I do see difference in boy and girl in their works, the boy's rabbit looked more like a dirty cat, ha!

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may refer here for details of my Fun Classes.

List of my A to Z crafts other than those used in the Fun Classes:
1) A for Apple Tree
2) B for Bear
3) C for Caterpillar

4) D for Dinosaur

5) E for Ester Egg

6) F for Flower Wreath 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

11) K for King

12) L for Lion

13) M for Mickey Mouse

14) N for Necklace

15) O for Octopus

16) P for Pig

17) Q for Quail

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A to Z Crafts - Q for Quail

We did a craft on Quail, which I printed the drawing from a website here.

Print the drawing and let the kid colour it. After done just cut it out and paste it on a paper.

I've also printed a worksheet on Q and let him practise writing it which I forgotten the source, but you may google "letter Q worksheet" and there are plenty of worksheets available.

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may refer here for details of my Fun Classes.

List of my A to Z crafts other than those used in the Fun Classes:
1) A for Apple Tree
2) B for Bear
3) C for Caterpillar

4) D for Dinosaur

5) E for Ester Egg

6) F for Flower Wreath 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

11) K for King

12) L for Lion

13) M for Mickey Mouse

14) N for Necklace

15) O for Octopus

16) P for Pig

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A to Z Crafts - P for Piggy

We were not doing so much on craft for this lesson, rather we were doing a role play on the story of "Three Little Piggy".

Do a pig nose like the one in the picture above, tie it with rubber bands so that the kid can wear it on the ears.

The story of "Three Little Piggy" can be found here.

I'm sure your kids will enjoy this lesson with the role play. Do enforce letter P at the start and the end of the lesson.

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may refer here for details of my Fun Classes.

List of my A to Z crafts other than those used in the Fun Classes:
1) A for Apple Tree
2) B for Bear
3) C for Caterpillar

4) D for Dinosaur

5) E for Ester Egg

6) F for Flower Wreath 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

11) K for King

12) L for Lion

13) M for Mickey Mouse

14) N for Necklace

15) O for Octopus

This section will be updated continuously as and when I have new craft idea for my kids. Do like my Facebook page "learn the fun way" to get more updates.

Games on learning Chinese with your kid

Found the following games from Internet on how you can teach your kid Chinese in a fun and interactive way, really useful and it works for my kids:

        1.认字
　　每人分有一些字卡，大家轮流出一张字卡，其他人谁先说对谁把字卡拿走，最后手中字卡多者为胜。

　　2.指字
　　老师出三到五张字卡，让学生们指其中一个字，谁先指到那个字，谁就把字卡拿走，最后手中字卡多者为胜。由于学生不知道我要让他们指哪个字，所以每个人的注意力都高度集中。学生们也可以轮流当老师。这个游戏是他们最喜欢的。

　　3.摸字
　　在口袋或盒子里放上卡片，学生轮流摸出一张字卡，念对了，把字卡拿走；念错了，把字卡放回。谁手中的字卡多，谁就是胜者。

　　4.谁不在
　　把几张字卡放在桌子上或黑板槽里，让学生看几秒钟后闭上眼睛，老师拿走其中一张字卡，把剩下的字卡重新排列。然后让学生睁开眼睛，说出“谁”不在了(即哪张字卡被拿走了)，先说出来者为胜。这个游戏可逐渐变难，放更多张字卡，也可一次拿走2-3张。

　　5.好记性
　　把几张字卡同时放在桌子上或黑板槽里，给学生十几秒钟的时间记住这些字。时间到，把字卡全部拿走。学生凭记忆说出字卡上的字。说出字多者为胜。

　　6. 组词
　　每人轮流出一张字卡，其他人组词，谁先组出词来，或者谁组的词多，谁把这张字卡拿走。最后手中字卡多者为胜。

　　7. 读句子
　　每人轮流出一张字卡，句子那面朝上（字卡一面是字，另一面是用这个字组成的句子），其他人读句子，谁先正确读出句子来，谁把这张字卡拿走。

　　8. 说句子
　　每人轮流出一张字卡，字的那面朝上，其他人说出一句包括这个字的句子，谁先说出来，谁把这张字卡拿走。此游戏可逐渐变难，可一次放3-5张字卡，学生们把这些字连起来说一句话。

A to Z Crafts - O for Octopus

We did a session on Jellyfish for our letter J lesson, so while choosing the craft for this "O for octopus" lesson, I hope the craft does not end up similar to the one we did on Jellyfish.

O for Octopus

What you'll need:
1) A toilet roll
2) A button
3) A pair of scissors
4) Marker pen

Instruction:
1) Cut the bottom of the toilet roll as the arms of octopus, as shown in the picture below, it should be 8 arms only.
2) Use the marker pen to draw the eyes.
3) Paste the button at the centre as the nose
4) You may colour the toilet roll if you want to.

Little boy playing with his new friend, Mr Octopus.....

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may refer here for details of my Fun Classes.

List of my A to Z crafts other than those used in the Fun Classes:
1) A for Apple Tree 
2) B for Bear 
3) C for Caterpillar

4) D for Dinosaur

5) E for Ester Egg

6) F for Flower Wreath 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

11) K for King

12) L for Lion

13) M for Mickey Mouse

14) N for Necklace

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A to Z Crafts - N for Necklace

I've done this craft with my girl before in my fun class, which I find it quite fun and easy to do, thus I did it again with my son. Basically, you just need a string and some macaroni.

N for Necklace

What you'll need:
1) A string (preferably elastic)
2) Macaroni
3) Water colour (optional)

Instruction:
1) Paint the macaroni (if you prefer it to be colourful)
2) Let the kid thread the macaroni with a string
3) Tie it with a knot

 The necklace done:

The kids enjoyed playing with the macaroni.

I did not colour the macaroni, because those macaroni were our lunch the next day! Don't worry, I did wash the macaroni before cooking.....lol!

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may refer here for details of my Fun Classes.

List of my A to Z crafts other than those used in the Fun Classes:
1) A for Apple Tree 
2) B for Bear 
3) C for Caterpillar

4) D for Dinosaur

5) E for Ester Egg

6) F for Flower Wreath 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

11) K for King

12) L for Lion

13) M for Mickey Mouse

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A to Z Crafts - M for Mickey Mouse!

I wanted to do a craft of a cartoon character that they are familiar with, definitely not going to do anything related to 'monkey' since they've done it so many times already. I came across this very cute Mickey Mouse made from toilet roll, which is easy to do, and easy to associate with my letter M lesson.

M for Mickey Mouse 

What you'll need:
1) Toilet roll
2) Black, white and red paper
3) Button
4) Water colour
5) Glue


Instruction:
1) Paint the toilet roll with black water colour, leave aside to dry.
2) Cut the shape of the head (with ears) out from the black paper
3) Cut the shape of the face out from the white paper
4) Paste the cut outs to the toilet roll (after dried)
5) Paste the red paper (cover half of the toilet roll) to the toilet roll, do your measurement.
6) Paste the button.
7) Draw the eyes, nose and mouth.

Done!

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may refer here for details of my Fun Classes.

List of my A to Z crafts other than those used in the Fun Classes:
1) A for Apple Tree 
2) B for Bear 
3) C for Caterpillar

4) D for Dinosaur

5) E for Ester Egg

6) F for Flower Wreath 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

11) K for King

12) L for Lion

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A to Z Crafts - L for Lion

I had been thinking what to do for this lesson L, and I found this cute lion craft from the web made using toilet rolls (yes, I've lots of toilet rolls!). It was also easy for the kid to associate letter L to Lion, and also easier to prompt him in spelling the word.

L for Lion 

What you'll need:

1) 1 piece of paper plate
2) Cut out of the ears and tail from white paper
3) Cut out of the wiskers, eyes, nose, hair on the tail from black paper
4) 1 toilet roll
5) water colours

6) Glue

Instruction:
1) Paint the toilet roll, paper plate and the white paper cut outs and leave it to dry.
2) Paste the cut outs to the paper plate as shown in the picture.

Kids like painting mostly. See my two littles were so focusing on their work. 

This the finished product, aren't they cute?

This is the glue I shared on my facebook, it can really hold the artwork together.

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may referhere for details of my Fun Classes.

List of my A to Z crafts other than those used in the Fun Classes:
1) A for Apple Tree 
2) B for Bear 
3) C for Caterpillar

4) D for Dinosaur

5) E for Ester Egg

6) F for Flower Wreath 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

11) K for King

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A to Z Crafts - K for King

What is the most important item to a king? That would of course be the crown right?!

In this K for King lesson, we were making a crown. The crown were used in the role play for the lesson on letter K.

K for King

What you'll need:
1) 1 piece of card
2) 1 rubber bands
3) Crayon or colour pencils
4) A pair of scissors


Instruction:
1）Cut the shape of the crown from the card, like the one you see in the picture below. Draw the ornaments on the cut out.

2) Staple a rubber bands at the two sides of the card to join the crown up.

 Little king playing with his crown.

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may refer here for details of my Fun Classes.

List of my A to Z crafts other than those used in the Fun Classes:
1) A for Apple Tree
2) B for Bear

3) C for Caterpillar

4) D for Dinosaur

5) E for Ester Egg

6) F for Flower Wreath 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

10) J for Jelly fish 

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A to Z Crafts - J for Jellyfish

In this lesson, we are making a Jellyfish from a plastic container.

The finished product will look something like this, isn't it cute?

J for Jellyfish

What you'll need:
1) 1 piece of plastic container (those you get when you buy back the food from hawker centre, if you really can't find it, you may use a transparent plastic cup)
2) 1 small piece of white paper for the eyes
3) Red and blue (or any other colours) colour transparent gift paper, I got mine from Daiso at $2 for 3 big piece in a pack.
4) Marker pen
5) A pair of scissors
6) Glue

Instruction:
1) Cut the red transparent paper into small pieces, about 1x1 inches.
2) Cut the blue transparent paper into strips as the tentacles of the jellyfish.
3) Put glue inside the container
4) Paste the red transparent paper cut in number (1) above inside the container
5) Paste the blue transparent paper cut in number (2) above at the side of the container, as the tentacles
6) Cut 2 ovals and draw the black eyes on it, paste it on the container
7) It is done. You may hang it up, it looked great with a light bulb hang inside the container.

This craft work is used in conjunction to my Fun Classes, you may refer here for details of my Fun Classes.

List of my A to Z crafts other than those used in the Fun Classes:
1) A for Apple Tree
2) B for Bear
3) C for Caterpillar

4) D for Dinosaur

5) E for Ester Egg

6) F for Flower Wreath 

7) G for Giraffe 

8) H for Hippopotamus 

9) I for Insect - Bee 

This section will be updated continuously as and when I have new craft idea for my kids. Do like my Facebook page "learn the fun way" to get more updates.