The Lazy Stay-at-Home Mommy

Snack : Strawberries, cheese sticks and strawberry flavor Panda crackers.

Monday

Dearest Nikita
Do you know a cow has 4 stomachs? No wonder they need to eat so much grass!
♥ mommy

Tuesday

Dearest Nikita
The largest flower in the world is called Rafflesia! It smells like a rotting meat! Eewk!
PS: It is almost as heavy as Niklas!!!!!!
♥ mommy

Wednesday

Dearest Nikita
The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird!
♥ mommy

Thursday

*A message on banana peel*
Have a great snack, Nikita! Thank you for being a good mommy helper! I love you.

Friday

Dearest Nikita

You asked what is the largest fruit in the world. There are many answers to this question. One of them is Jack fruit. It is the largest tree borne fruit in the world. We can find this fruit in Asia! Mommy had ate it before and it was really yummy!
♥ mommy

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The girl’s class is going to celebrate Valentine’s Day next Friday and as part of their celebration, they will be exchanging Valentine’s cards. Since we will be very busy preparing for Chinese New Year next week, I decided to help her in making the cards today when the boy was taking his afternoon nap. As I wasn’t in the mood to do something new, I decided to recycle some old craft idea instead. I took down the old craft project which we did 4 years ago from our basement and asked Nikita to create similar hearty animals for her cards.

With the hearts cutout that I pre-cut for her, she began to write the Valentine’s message, and create each and every card by herself. After making about half a dozen of them, she started to be creative and created hearty flowers, butterfly and dragonfly, which are not from my original patterns. Seeing that she is using her creativity to create something new, makes me really happy! I think all the cards look really lovely, don’t you think so?

(Click on the picture to see a larger version.)

What you need :
Construction papers/ recycled gift wrapper/magazines
scissors
glue
markers
lots of creative juice!

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(Snack : Apricot & Blackberries)
Monday – No School.

Tuesday

Dearest Nikita

It’s the Kindergarten changeover day! Hope you will have a great day & enjoy your snack!
♥ mommy

Wednesday

Dearest Nikita
今天是下雨天.
Do you know that a person can live without food for a few weeks but a person can only live without water for a few days? Water is precious!!
♥ mommy

Thursday

Dearest Nikita

今天是星期四.
爸爸要回家了.
Do you know that a lobster’s blood isn’t red like us? It is light blue color!
♥ mommy

Friday

Dearest Nikita
A Treble Clef is also known as a G clef!
It starts on the G line.
♥ mommy

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Niklas and I made these bird feeders at the Library’s craft time today when Nikita was at school.
This is a very easy project and is suitable for age group : 2+ and above.

What you need :
Ice-cream cone
Shortening
Bird Feed
pipe cleaner x1

Instruction :
1. Use your scissors to make a small cut at the tip of the ice-cream cone so that you could string the pipe cleaner through.
2. Tie a knot at one end of the pipe cleaner and string it thru the ice-cream cone.
3. Spread some Shortening around the ice-cream cone.
4. Pour some bird feed on a plate and roll the ice-cream cone on top of the seeds.
5. Finally find a sunny place to place your bird feeder. Sit back and enjoy watching the birds feed on the seeds!

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Woo Hoo! Finally found the way to bring back the old characters via changing avatars! The problem with this approach is that since I could only save 1 avatar at a time, I have to individually create them separately & that will take me more time to create the whole strip. Well, at least now that the original characters are back, I don’t have to hear Ms. Girl whining about wanting her old comic character back again!

The grandmother story about this comics:
This morning Niklas was in really good mood after his breakfast. So he started running around in the living room while waiting for his sister to finish hers. I think he must have ran too much and he started to cough a little. Then, I heard him gagged. So, I asked him if he is ok. He grinned and said proudly to me, “Mommy! I ate my vomit!!” and then continue with his running again. HAHA… That’s my silly boy! So adorable, right?!

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(Click to see larger pix.)

Have to use the standard characters provided by the Strip Generator, hence the change in the Girl character.

I am still trying to figure out the mask tool, can’t seem to get it to work yet. I think once I figure that out, it will be much easier for me to create/change the features of the characters. Sigh… Frankly, I don’t really like the new Strip Generator version. I find it slower than the previous version and the browser becomes non-responsive every time I try to add or move the elements. This simple strip took me more than 1hr to create and in the end, I had to readjust the text using Paintbrush because I forgot there is still some text alignment problems with the bubbles. Quite frustrating so I deleted the original copy at SG.

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Sigh… Strip Generator recently revamped their site and most of the characters that I used are gone. I’m not sure if they will ever bring back the character generator feature, but if they don’t, this maybe my last comic strip.

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I know Christmas is long over, but I still want to share this is a super cute hand print craft that the kids made weeks before Christmas.

Material used:
White Poster/Tempera Paint
Construction paper : Red, Pink
Marker pens : Red, Black
Pencil
Glue
Scissors

Instructions:
1. First, we made the beard of the Santa Claus with white tempera hand print on a green construction paper. Then, put aside to dry.
2. Cut out a triangle and 1 circle from a red construction paper for Santa Hat and Santa’s red nose.
3. Cut out 2 circles from a pink construction paper for Santa rosy cheeks.
4. When the hand print is dried, glue the Santa hats, nose & cheeks parts.
5. Add Santa’s eyes with black marker pen and mouth with red marker pen.
6. For finishing touch, add the plush bits on the Santa hat by dipping the pencil eraser part onto the white tempera paint and stamp.

After the paint is dry, you can make it into a homemade Santa Claus Christmas card or an Christmas tree ornament like we did.

Other related posts:

See our other Christmas Craft here.

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This week’s theme is Balanced and I looked through my photos archives and found these pictures that I took last December at the boy’s gym class. The boy, with the help from his daddy, was balance walking on an elevated air log!

See… he was so confident and looked as if he was running up towards the top!

Reached the top and ready to walk down again.

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(Credit : Image from Jimmie’s Collage.)

Unit Study:
Jimmie’s Chinese New Year Unit Study for Homeschoolers (Link)

EdHelper’s Chinese New Year Unit Study (Link)

Activity Village Chinese New Year Unit (Link)

Printable:
All About Chinese New Year (Link)
This printable is a great way to teach students about other cultures and the ways in which other countries celebrate the New Year.

Print your own Chinese Zodiac Matching game (Link)

Tiger Mask craft (Link)

-To be continued-

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