Characters come alive!

What has Ben 10 and Disney Princesses have in common? They are characters that my kids like. Recently, I picked up a few Ben 10 & Disney Princess activity books from Popular bookstore. At least I don't have to "force" them to do assessment books at this age.

The Ben 10 sticker book comes with many scenes for the child to paste the selection of Ben 10 aliens. It is actually too simple for a P1 boy. But I must say the drawings are captivating. Instead of pasting stickers, I suggested we recreate the scene from Ben 10 using tissue box. He chose a scene of a car wreck and narrated the scene in his own words. I helped him cut out the box and he pasted the blue and black paper as sky & road respectively. The fun part was using all his toy cars, crushed paper, chopsticks and Ben 10 alien toys to create the fighting scene.

While gorgor was making his "Ben 10 comes alive", mei requested to recreate a scene from Aladdin's magic carpet ride. We didn't have Aladdin & Jasmine characters. So we made do with hello kitty figurine pens. She sang the song "A Whole New World" while playing with the magic carpet (which was a souvenir pouch from a recent wedding dinner I attended).

That is precisely why mei resisted cookie cutter type art class. We can have a freeplay and not be constrained by the timing of the art lesson. In fact, on the very next day, they each created another craft as a extension of what they have done.