Child Size Presented by Act 3 - 14/03/2010

Entrance

K likes Auntie Mabel a lot! She would rather hold

Auntie Mabel's hand than mine! "Journal of Figures" station
Jun Yi gor-gor & K preferred colouring to crafting the cardboards
The artist sewed a button on K's "man" at the

"Beautiful Garden" station Jun Yi gor-gor posing with his "man"
Bookworms :)
Dance workshop

Jun Yi gor-gor was able to dance very well!

K liked the peacock feather but hated the bells tied to her ankle! Jun Yi gor-gor singing on stage

Act 3 International has a new festival for young children aptly named "Child Size". The writeup seemed pretty interesting with many fun filled activities for the children, so I asked Auntie Mabel and Jun Yi gor-gor to join us.

There were 2 different packs available and each lasted about 2.5hrs; Chamber Pack and Play Den Pack. We opted for the latter as it appeared to be more interesting with a puppet show, singing and dance workshop. Unfortunately, we were quite disappointed. The Chamber Pack seemed a better choice as we had seen a segment with quite a number of children and adults having fun with some percussion instruments. One of K's Art Loft teachers, Ms Shireen, also commented that the story telling program in Chamber Pack was engaging.

We were pretty early, thus had time to create art from used corrugated cardboards at the "Journal of Figures" station and to create a "man" wearing clothes from recycled magazines at the "Beautiful Garden" station. Both counters had artists to demonstrate their craft and guide the children but K preferred a ready-made aeroplane(lazy bum or smart aleck?!) to making one from scratch. We finished these 2 artmaking stations pretty fast as the children were not very keen in them.

First to come was the highly anticipated puppet show. Unfortunately, it was not very interesting. Too wordy and lengthy even for adults but I am grateful that K did not scream her lungs out to get out! Next comes the dance workshop (Indian dance). At first, K appeared to be interested and tried to follow the hands and feet movements demonstrated by the Indian lady dancer but soon lost interest. By the time the singing workshop starts, she was too tired to even want to participate.

Amongst the shows K has attended, this is by far the longest, most expensive and most disappointing :(