Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

One of our favourite animation movies of all time is Finding Nemo. We’ve all watched it for SO many times and yet we’ve never grown tired of it.

Now here’s something that I find rather interesting.

While Anya is more into Nemo, his dad and ‘Mr. Ray’, Vai finds sharks much more fascinating!
(and people say, such animal choices could represent the kids’ underlying characters? hmmm)

And since each time we visit the library I would encourage the kids to pick up a book where we can learn new things about the animal world together, Vai chose a book on … sharks.

And the other day, with that book in mind, Vai and I created our own underwater adventure.

Involving a shark, of course.

And oh, a diver too! (just like the one in the ‘Finding Nemo’ movie).
What we used :

– Drawing paper
– Watercolour and sponge
– Crayons
– Scissors and glue

What we did:

– I drew a picture of a shark (based on one of the shark pictures in the book). Vai then coloured it grey with his crayon (notice the ‘black tips’ on the shark’s fins, hehe)

–  I then cut the shark out while Vai covered his drawing paper with blue watercolour (which will be the ‘ocean’) using a used dish-washing sponge

– I cut out little triangles (the shark’s sharp teeth!), and Vai then stuck them on (fantastic fine-motor exercise for little ones here!)

– And finally, the diver. The only diver picture I could find (we didn’t surf the internet for it) is the one on his puzzle box. And so I used that as my reference, and drew Vai’s diver.

Vai then coloured it with his crayons.

[Tips: I usually let Vai colour the drawing first before cutting it out, as this way, I can get him to cover all of the surface and not worry about going ‘over the lines’]

And that’s it!

Vai just made his own little version of Finding Nemo’s shark-diver scene. Hehe.

See if you can guess what his underwater story is about.