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Making : Prickly Creatures

18 July 20082 Comments

Soon after we made those jellyfish hats, the kids insisted on playing with their coloured matchsticks.

And so we decided to make some prickly creatures. I was open to the idea of making some sort of a sea urchin or a porcupine.  And both kids chose to make porcupines.

What you need :

– Chloroform cups
– Masking tape
– Coloured matchsticks

What you do :

– Tape the two cups together
– Let the kids carefully poke the matchsticks through the cup

This seemingly simple task apparently required so much concentration and effort from these little ones because they had to carefully poke through the cup and avoid tearing / making too a big hole. If they’re not careful enough, the sticks would slide INTO the cup and ‘disappear’.

Other than learning how to focus and concentrate, the kids exercised their fine motor skills too here!

Oh btw, they didn’t finish making their ‘porcupines’. Instead, they had fun ‘tearing’ and ‘plucking’ the sticks out when the ‘bodies’ were half covered with sticks!

Oh well. As they say, sometimes the ‘results’ don’t really matter as much as the ‘process’ of learning itself ?

2 Comments »

  • Leonny says:

    Thanks for dropping by, KKF!

    I’m raising my kids fulltime right now 🙂 And yes, so happen opportunities are there for me to contribute my photography works to magazines too so far.

    And you’re most welcome to link the site to yours too of course!

    Have a great weekend! Keep in touch!

  • kkf says:

    Hi thanks for visiting dash’s site. Are you working in the entertainment area?
    Anyway, wow, your kids appear in so many magazines! 🙂
    Two pretty cute little ones you have. Hope you dun mind me adding your blog to mine.

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