So armed with our new "toy", I let Sophie paint on a piece of paper (with the outline of two dinosaurs already drawn). I was quite surprised that she did not hold the bottles awkwardly. In fact, she looked as if she had done this before. I love the way she "violently" stamped the paint onto the paper...
Actually, I have prepared four different kinds of dinosaur outline but we could only do one. This was also Papa's first experience with doing art with Sophie. The video clips were taken by him (Phew!) so they were slightly longer than usual. I even had time to laugh (evil) when she kissed her own hand and ended up with paint on her mouth...
The effect was quite good on paper I must say... although it was slightly harder to wash off from Sophie's face and hands than I had hoped. In any case, I cut the dinosaurs out but I think they would look nice if they can be pasted on a separate sheet of paper with some collage around them. I will let Sophie continue with it tomorrow.
End Product (Dinosaur)
To Be Continued...
After the "speed art" we did, Sophie was quickly sent to her morning shower and put to bed for her nap. She woke up after an hour and we headed for Naenae's place for lunch. In the car, I read her Dinosaur Roar and Dinosaur Colours by Paul Stickland. I love the benign and colourful dinosaurs in his books. Unlike another set of Dinosaur books by Jane Yolen that I have bought earlier - the illustrations are more realistic. I shall read her those before we continue with our craft tomorrow...
I love flash cards, and when Ethan was as young as birth I pasted words all over the house so that he associates the words to the objects. At 3 months, I started flshing cards and he recognized most of the words with objects on them even though he couldn't say the words yet. But have to use flash cards sparingly so that they won't get bored of it, and lost interest in learning. Some are against flashing cards to their babies, but for me if it works for my baby, why not? The new crayola is great! No mess for you to clean up....heeee....
ReplyDeleteI use flash cards to build up his vocab, yes it's boring, but you don't have to flash to her many words each day. Focus on those that she sees everyday. I am focusing on his language cos' I want him to express himself so that he will be less frastrated when he is understood by me. When a child is frastrated because no one understands him/her, we parents, think that this child is difficult as he/she keeps showing his/her behavioral problems like throwing tandrums etc. The problem is not about his/her behavior, it's his/her lack of language to express himself/herself that causes the frastration. He kind of knows many words, but I want him to be able to use those words not just by labeling them. As mentioned by my professor, language function need lots of opportunity for the child, so I am trying to create many opportunities for him to work on his language function now.
ReplyDeleteya, I love flashcards. I diligently use them on Phoebe and she was able to name all the animals in the cards when she was about 2 years old. All 56 animals on the cards and many other items (such as colours, Alphabet and thins at home) on the other card sets. I thought it was quite a good achievement for a 2-year-old. But when comes to Reuben, we were lazy liao :P
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