We started off our day 2 at 10am too. Unlike yesterday, it was easier to get along with the kids today because they had already known us.
Mandatory breakfast selfie before we go. Hehe.
Like yesterday, we danced with the children as warming up, and then commenced our first game which is Chui Mei (we found no appropriate English name for this activity, but here's what Chui Mei is all about: it is a type of Chinese art by blowing drops of ink on a paper into tree branches, and then add some petals to it to make it into plum plants)
Edan, the coordinator for this session, was explaining and demonstrating Chui Mei.
The children were doing Chui Mei on their own.
"Uncle" happily doing Chui Mei. Uncls is 43-years-old but he has got the heart and soul of a 9-year-old. He's happy like a kid most of the time!
Featuring group yellow and their Chui Mei.
Masterpieces up front waiting to be evaluated.
Uncle awarding stamps to his favourite masterpieces. We used the stamps as an evaluation tool, every child are allowed to vote for their favourite art productions.
The children definitely enjoyed doing Chui Meis that morning. Again, they were not limited by stereotypes and were able to produce unique arts that were very different from one another. Their petals were not pink, their petals did not all stick on the branches.
Sometimes humans just need to jump out of the box.
We then had lunch break at 12pm. It was an Easter weekend and some worshipers from the Melawati Chinese Methodist Church paid a visit to IQ70+ too. They had threw up some performances to entertain the children.
We resumed our activities when they left. So it was my session then! :D
My session was to do the finger-printing collage. As a coordinator of that session, I distributed the materials needed to each group and briefed them about how to do it.
So here's how:
Materials for each group:
1. 5 different colors of paint, I prepared red, orange, yellow, green and blue for them;
2. Colored papers printed with tree branch, each person in the group gets a different part of the tree.
Steps:
1. Apply some watercolor on your finger;
2. Stamp it! On anywhere u like along the branch!
#happyfingerprinting
Each of them was going to produce something like this. (This was the trial that I did the other day.)
It was easy, wasn't it. Also, I brought along the sample that I prepared the other day to gave the children a better picture of what they are going to produce. I also patrolled around to gave them assistance when they requested for it. It was cute that although most of them were adults, their heart and soul remained like a child and therefore, they constantly seek for assurance and encouragement.
So once they were done with their own part, we helped them to combine the pieces from the entire group AAAAAAAAAND MAGIC HAPPENED.
So this was what they produced! Aren't they lovely?
This was a simple craft but we aspired to inculcate the importance of teamwork in the children. They are living together in such a big group, and we hoped that they are able to love and value each other by realising that together, they could work wonders.
Later that afternoon we had some light tea session. We actually prepared a surprise for the children too. Before this Edan suggested that we could present them some souvenir as a token of memory. And so after the tea time we proceeded with that.
It was a big perspex board, with the photos of our first day there. We left some space in the middle for palm prints.
We resumed our activities when they left. So it was my session then! :D
My session was to do the finger-printing collage. As a coordinator of that session, I distributed the materials needed to each group and briefed them about how to do it.
So here's how:
Materials for each group:
1. 5 different colors of paint, I prepared red, orange, yellow, green and blue for them;
2. Colored papers printed with tree branch, each person in the group gets a different part of the tree.
Steps:
1. Apply some watercolor on your finger;
2. Stamp it! On anywhere u like along the branch!
#happyfingerprinting
So once they were done with their own part, we helped them to combine the pieces from the entire group AAAAAAAAAND MAGIC HAPPENED.
This was a simple craft but we aspired to inculcate the importance of teamwork in the children. They are living together in such a big group, and we hoped that they are able to love and value each other by realising that together, they could work wonders.
Later that afternoon we had some light tea session. We actually prepared a surprise for the children too. Before this Edan suggested that we could present them some souvenir as a token of memory. And so after the tea time we proceeded with that.
It was a big perspex board, with the photos of our first day there. We left some space in the middle for palm prints.
Edan was painting the color onto Maya's palm as Mr Chang (red shirt), the director of IQ70+ watched.
The girls were helpful as always, they carried Maya who was too short to reach to get her palm printed on the board.
Anis printing her palm: we did the same too to reflect our underlying message - hand in hand, together we go through this world.
Our selfie with our two mural paintings upon completing our two days at IQ70+ that afternoon.
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