Sand Art - 19/07/2010

Bought this sand art kit by Alex from Borders as there was a promotion. Though Krissa has never done this form of art before, it seemed pretty easy according to the instructions and true enough it was simple for K to manage on her own yet challenging at the same time as she has to patiently peel off the stickers with care. K was extremely happy with her finished piece and asked for more :)

Eager K!

K working hard

An extremely happy and proud K

The Luxe Museum - 22/05/2010

K's art school, Art Loft, incorporates field trips in their curriculum. The venue this time was The Luxe Art Museum to learn about the works of renowned sculptor artist, Han Sai Por.

Art Loft's New Branch At Joo Chiat - 20/03/2010

Interior of Art Loft's new branch
Leaves printing art with one of K's favourite teachers, Ms Shireen.
The leaves used were cut from the potted plants in the backyard!

Jun Yi gor-gor came to join us
Teacher Shireen guided the children to make a dreamcatcher.
Jun Yi gor-gor used a roll of yarn as binoculars and K put the
incompleted dreamcatcher on her head like a headband...faint!!
Hahaha!!
Jun Yi gor-gor & K with their completed dreamcatcher....
nightmares go away!

This new branch at Joo Chiat Road is so cool! From the outside, one would never know it is an art school! Primarily, Art Loft is contented and happy with its humble existence, so it does not want to do any form of advertising or publicity to create awareness. Also, they are sharing premise with an interior design firm. The wall mural is made up of projects executed by the interior firm! In this new branch, Art Loft will be operating a cafe so that parents can enjoy a cuppa while waiting for their kids. There is also a backyard where they planted quite a few pots of plants. The leaves used in the leaves printing session today was cut from these potted plants! Way coooool!!!

More Arts!

Krissa's art journal cover.

Not bad for a 2.5yrs toddler!!
Collage done on 13/03/2010

Krissa's Tee Shirt Art - 07/11/2009

K proudly wore the tee shirt art she created

I'm so happy with the curriculum in Krissa's art school - Art Loft. The teachers really put in alot of effort in planning the activities for the children. Not only do they try to expose the children to different mediums where they can create art on, many a time, the children will learn precious and useful knowledge along the way too. This time kids learnt that they can create art on cloth using special fabric markers and scraps which can be recycled. In this way, not only do they learn about recycling (of course K is kind of too young to understand but there's no harm in starting them young!), they get to wear the tee shirt they've created too! Hahahha....this tee shirt is meant to be an art apron i.e. to wear on the outside to protect their clothes. Any additional stains in future only serves to make the tee look more interesting!

Backlog 3 - K's Work Selected for Early Childhood Studies at NIE (22/08/2009)

Writeup on a 2yr old's capabilities examplified by K &

one of K's works using wet chalks and other materials

to build a collage.

Erm...actually I don't know what it is all about and I was too excited to get further details from Teacher Shireen of Art Loft but whatever that may be, it must be a good thing and I am really proud to have K's work being presented!!

In a twinkling of an eye, we have been with Art Loft for almost a year!! The teachers are ever sooo patient with the children. K has also build up a strong bond with Teacher Shireen as it had been a ratio of 1:1 for the past terms. It is only now that the ratio is 1:2 because I have to change K to another time slot in order to accomodate her other lessons, so she has no choice but to "share" Teacher Shireen with other children

Paper Making

Krissa tried her hands at paper making, amongst other activities, today at Art Loft....2nd time actually. The last time, we merely made the paper and when it was dried, we painted on it. This time, however, we did a simple collage using crepe paper, yarn, gauze, coloured paper pulp etc when the paper was still wet.

Art for Zig Zag (Young Parents) Magazine?

23rd May 2009, 21mths

04th April 2009, 20mths

Read from the June 2009 issue of Young Parents magazine that they are accepting submission of children artworks which will be published in the upcoming issue of Zig Zag, so I submitted these 2 works done solely by Krissa, dunno if I'm too late. Hmmm.............perhaps a Picasso in the making? Hehehe...I'd better treasure and keep these works properly............who knows? They maybe worth zillionsssssss in future!!! Dream, dream, dream................