I always love Christmas!  I love the red shiny decorations, beautiful Christmas tree and the Santa Claus with his large gift bag.  It is also a festive of love.  Family and friends get together for the special celebration.  We should nurture our child’s family value on this special occasion that only takes place once a [...]

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Remember last week we have produced a house and a tree using old magazine?  This week we are going to make the background for the tree and house.  I hope you still keep the tree and the house that you have made earlier with your child.  Take them out as we need them today!  Briefly [...]

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When you look around the house, do you find old magazines lying around the corner?  Why not we use them to nurture our child’s recycling awareness this weekend?  The global warming issues are getting more serious these days.  We as adults can start educate our child at home about green living habits to create environmental [...]

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Lets nurture our child’s creative development with potatoes!  We can find potatoes easily at home.  They are very low cost materials for a craft too.  Before we begin any activity, lets talk about potatoes with our child.  Some children tasted potato chips, french fries and potato soup but never see a real whole potato before!  [...]

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It’s time to do another fun activity with our child to nurture their creativity as well as occupy their time during the free time at home or in school!
Materials

Water color or poster color - green, yelow, orange
Painting paper
green color paper
brown color paper
scissors
glue

Steps

Pre-cut some grass shapes using green color paper.  For older children who are able [...]

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Another weekend is approaching..what can we do to occupy our child when they are home with us?  I suggest that we can do a simple yet fun activity to nurture our child’s creativity - Finger Painting!
Benefits

Promote creativity.  The child is given the opportunity to freely paint using his own imagination
Allow the child to express himself [...]

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Lots of parents are having hard time to occupy their child’s time at home .   It is part of the many challenges that we face in the journey of nurturing our child.  We need to have new activities to attract our child to pay attention on them in order to work with the activities.  [...]

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Art and craft are one of the usual tools that we can use to nurture our child’s creativity. Few days ago, we have prepared three boxes of recycle materials such as tissue boxes, egg cartons, empty toilet rolls, used color papers, glass papers, empty mineral bottles, plastic lids and boxes. We also [...]

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There are many tools that we can use to nurture our child’s creativity either at home or in school, such as art and craft, music and movement, role play, story telling or speech and drama. We need to prepare an environments that the children are accessible to those activities easily in order for them [...]

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Does creativity needs to be nurtured in our child? Why? What is creativity? Most people thinks that creativity is all about art and craft. This is not true! Art and craft are just part of many tools that are used to nurture our child’s creativity.
Creativity is actually a [...]

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