Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
We’ve all spent a lot more time at home over the last few months, which means you’re probably running out of ideas to keep your family entertained. When the weather rules out playing in the garden or taking a nature walk in the park, it can be even trickier to keep youngsters occupied.
Dare You to Doodle is a very interesting interactive activity book that is filled with over 100 doodles to complete. There are a total of 144 pages of illustrations in two colours plus black. Each page has a unique starting illustration and no one page is the same. If you can’t find any inspiration on the page, just move onto the next page!
Get A Grip is a new no thumbs challenge game from Hasbro Gaming. This game is to earn cards by completing challenges without using your fingers and thumbs. It suitable for aged eight and above. It is to be played with three persons.
Disney Art Academy is a tutorial game that teaches you to draw 80 beloved characters from Disney and Pixar’s best movies, featuring the legendary Mickey Mouse, Elsa from Disney’s Frozen, and Big Hero Six’s Baymax, using a bundle of different drawing tools.
Can you guess who these celebrities are by taking this quiz based on drawings by several talented children? I can’t as I only scored 4 out of 9!
Recently, SunLife have enlisted the blossoming creative talents of several school children to bring you a new kind of fun. They have asked children to draw different celebrities in their own way and this quiz is the result. Now they would like to challenge your artistic eye and knowledge of the latest in celebrity entertainment with their quiz. See if you can guess who these nine celebrities are, based on the creative interpretations of children.
This coming Monday 16th February 2015, I will be partying at The Book of Life Twitter Party along with other bloggers. Join the party on Twitter with @BookOfLifeUK from 5pm to 6.45pm for The Book of Life Viewing Party #BookofLifeBluRay. Remember to tweet using #BookOfLifeBluRay hashtag to take part in, so make sure your laptop, PC or smart device is ready to go as the party starts!
Don’t Chew the Royal Shoe is a debut picture book written by author and illustrator Kate Leake. This book is Kate’s first book as author and illustrator following her success illustrating popular titles such as Never Say No to a Princess and The Very Messy Mermaid.
This competition post is an entry for #TigercubHideout summer blogger by Tiger Sheds.
Tiger Sheds have challenged bloggers to ask their child or on behalf of a friends’ child to draw a picture of their dream house. There are no limits or guidelines here: they want to see the craziest, most whimsical and avant-garde architectural marvels since Gaudi learnt to tile. The child can either draw their dream house by hand or on the computer. When it’s finished, ensure the drawing is labelled so they know what they are looking at.
Finally, upload the drawing in a blog post with the hashtag #TigercubHideout and send your blog link to tigersheds@tigerbox.co.uk along with a contact number. Entries must be received by midnight on the closing date of 29 August 2014. A winner will be chosen from the most imaginative and creative entries by the CEO and his wife.
Both of my children always come back home with their school drawings which would be nice to pin up or frame. We often find that we have no wall or fridge space to spare to pin up their lovely drawings. Then I came across My 1st Years who specialise in personalised baby gifts and one of those gifts is this beautiful white A3 Personalised Art Frame.
It was another gloomy Saturday so we decided to stay at home to do art and craft and baking with the kids. It’s always a great way of spending family time together. At times, it can be quite stressful for me preparing the items before both children start pestering me. So I brought out all the stuff we needed the night before.
We started off making Christmas cards for our relatives in Singapore using a stencil to draw and write on the card. I still remember when I was very young we used to own a few huge stencils from Alphabet to Numbers. We used those with our school projects, posters and school bag. Now there are so many different types of stencils from letter stencils to cake stencils. After the kids finished using the stencils, they randomly pasted foam shapes, coloured paper and flowers on the Christmas card ready to send off to Singapore!
Are your children bored of the same design on their shoes? Or do you have a child who simply loves to draw? Now Skribbies Shoes enable children to draw and stick stickers on them! They are a new and excellent product founded by young entrepreneur Jennifer Duthie. She was inspired by the fabric paints of the 90s and wanted to develop a product for kids that was more versatile and would allow kids to keep on customising.
This month has been an exciting month for us. We were away to attend events in London but we also had a few days in where we did activities together. Today, we decided to have a lazy Sunday and I took out the Eggnogg for them to colour in. If you have not heard of Eggnogg.co.uk, they have grown from developing a range of greeting cards to keeping little people busy with a unique range of colour-in products. The products have a no-nonsense attitude that both children and adults adore. The bold designs allow for scribbles to find their way between the lines, helping challenge the senses through colour, texture and humour.
Recently, we reviewed the BrainBox games My First Picture and ABC. Honestly, I did not know that they also have colouring books. I was given these two Colour and Learn Animals and Teddy Bears books for review. It is suitable for age 5 onwards. Each book has 24 tear out pictures. They are not just an original colouring book. They are educational and each picture is vividly imaginative. The animals are not the most realistic you will ever see, but this may be to allow for easier colouring.
Mister Maker Volume 5 was out on DVD last week 3rd June. It is yet another brilliant craft time with him. In this DVD, there are 5 episodes and each are over 19 minutes. There are over 20 art and craft ideas making a wobbly egg, ice cream cone, 3D ships, worms in a can etc. We are big fans of the Cbeebies channel and my children love to watch Mister Maker whenever it is on. We are delighted to get this for review.
After watching Mister Maker, both children like to try out one of Mister Maker’s ideas. Today, we made the ice cream cone game! It is very simple and we are suppose to make it in a minute. With two young children, this is unrealistic as we took at least 10 minutes of craft time.
When I asked my son to watch this DVD, he replied he had watched it on Cbeebies. I was totally unaware of the show as it is shown at 8am in the morning. At that time, normally I am still tidying the rooms.
