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1. Ready Set Draw | You Are My Cupcake

Ready Set Draw - Joyce Wan - You Are My Cupcake

Author and illustrator Joyce Wan is back on Ready Set Draw! This time around she teaches you how to draw a delicious treat from her board book, You Are My Cupcake! No matter your skill level you will be able to draw a super cute cupcake. Go wild with your markers, colored pencils, or crayons by adding sprinkles and your favorite toppings.

When you’re finished drawing these cupcakes perhaps you’ll be inspired to make a batch of your own. Watch Joyce’s episode of StoryMakers, with Kathleen DeCosmo, to learn how to make cupcakes and easy toppers!

If your child or student isn’t ready to draw their own cupcake, they can decorate this printable:

You Are My Cupcake Decorate Me Printable

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Did you, a child, or student draw cupcakes using this video? Share your images with us via FacebookInstagram, or Twitter! Use the hashtag #ReadySetDraw on Instagram and Twitter too. We can’t wait to see what you’ve drawn!

Watch Joyce draw Peep and Egg on Ready Set Draw!

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ABOUT ‘YOU ARE MY CUPCAKE’


You Are My Cupcake
You Are My Cupcake - Joyce Wan
Written and illustrated by Joyce Wan
Published by Cartwheel Books

A scrumptious board book, filled with sweet terms of endearment. This bite-sized board book is an ode to all the names we call our children: cutie pie, sweet pea, peanut, pumpkin. With a candy-colored palette and irresistible art with glitter and embossing.

ABOUT JOYCE WAN

Joyce is inspired by Japanese pop culture, Scandinavian design, modern architecture, and the little things that put a smile on her face. In Joyce’s perfect world “everything would be cute, round, and chubby,” which is evident in her illustrations. Joyce is the author of several bestselling board and picture books including You Are My Cupcake and The Whale in My Swimming Pool, a Spring 2015 Junior Library Guild Selection.

Although Joyce’s parents had the equivalent of a middle school education, and her mother wasn’t able to speak English, her mother took Joyce and her siblings to the library every week. Picture books were integral to Joyce’s love of reading as she and her siblings made up stories to go along with the illustrations. Joyce counts the determination of her parents as a driving force behind her perseverance and success. “When I first started Wanart, I was working at a 9am-6pm job at an architectural firm. I spent many late night hours on my own business with only a few hours of sleep in between the two “jobs”. I did this for two years before I quit my full time job to pursue my own business full-time.”

Joyce graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University in New York City with a liberal arts degree in Architecture. Joyce teaches greeting card design and art licensing at the School of Visual Arts. The self-proclaimed night owl prefers drawing and writing in the early morning hours “when everyone’s asleep and the world is quiet.” Joyce lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey with her husband. The architect turned author and self-trained illustrator hopes to inspire people to “embrace the spirit of childhood and follow their dreams.”

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2. Ready Set Draw! | Roxie Munro Draws an Amazing Maze

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Author and illustrator Roxie Munro returns to Ready Set Draw!, with a new project inspired by several of her books, including Market Maze. In this episode Roxie teaches you how to draw your very own busy random Roxie reversing maze! Go above, go under; make turns and twists. There are no mistakes, only opportunities to create new paths.

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Watch Roxie’s episode of StoryMakers to learn more about her books and apps!
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ABOUT ‘MARKET MAZE’
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Market Maze
By Roxie Munro
Published by Holiday House

Eight trucks hit the highway in a colorful and mesmerizing maze book that helps kids understand how food gets to their tables. In eleven intricately drawn mazes, eight vehicles, each carrying a different product, are on their way to the city. Fish, apples, dairy products, corn, vegetables, flowers, eggs, and baked goods all travel through colorful and minutely detailed landscape mazes to reach the city farmer’s market. Information on all of the products and their journeys is included along with answers to all of the mazes. For additional fun kids are challenged to look for objects hidden on each spread.

ABOUT ‘MAZEWAYS A TO Z’

Mazeways A to ZMazeways A to Z
By Roxie Munro
Published by Sterling Publishing Company

Prepare to be astounded, because these are no ordinary mazes! Welcome to Mazeways, where A is for Airport, B is for Boatyard, C is for Circus, and everything is exciting. In this eye-opening world, each letter in the alphabet transforms into a fantastic maze and fingers have to trace a path through fantastically detailed environments. Navigate these puzzles as you would if you were traveling in real life: drive your car on the right side of the road, cross the street only at the crosswalks, and feel free to walk around furniture or landmarks as long as nothing blocks your path. Each maze comes with directions on how to launch into the adventure, and features really cool things to find and guide you along the waylike crocodiles and seals, clown cars and motorcycles, baseball diamonds and sunken treasure, and more!

Find more of Roxie’s books, including more mazes, here.

ABOUT ROXIE MUNRO

Via RoxieMunro.com
Roxie is the author/illustrator of more than 40 nonfiction and concept books for children, many using “gamification” to encourage reading, learning, and engagement. Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.

Roxie was born in Texas, and grew up in southern Maryland, by the Chesapeake Bay. At the age of six, she won first prize in a county-wide contest for a painting of a bowl of fruit. She has been a working artist all her life, for a while freelancing in Washington DC as a television courtroom artist. It was great training for life drawing, concentration under pressure, and making deadlines. Clients included CBS, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Fourteen of her paintings have been published as covers of The New Yorker magazine.

She also creates oils, watercolors, prints, and drawings, primarily cityscapes, which are exhibited widely in the US in galleries and museums. Roxie’s work is in numerous private, public, and corporate collections.

Roxie Munro studied at the University of Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Hawaii, attended graduate school at Ohio University (Athens), and received a Yaddo Fellowship in Painting. She lectures in museums, schools, libraries, conferences, and teaches in workshops.

Many oils and watercolors are views from the roof of her sky-lighted loft studio in Long Island City, New York, just across the East River from her home in mid-Manhattan. Roxie is married to the Swedish writer/photographer, Bo Zaunders.

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3. Read Out Loud | Bear Snores On

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Bear Snores On is the first book in Karma Wilson’s series about Bear; a huggable and loyal friend, connoisseur of popcorn, and avid swimmer. It’s that time of the year and Bear has gone to sleep for a long time. What happens when several of his woodland friends happen upon his warm lair?

Bear Snores On is a great book you can use to teach young readers about seasons, hibernation, friendship, and sharing. There are so many big lessons in one small book!

Karma Wilson’s reading of Bear Snores On was filmed during Angie Karcher’s Rhyming Picture Book Revolution Conference (RPBC). The purpose of the RPBC is to educate and support authors who write rhyming picture books.

KidLit TV’s Read Out Loud series is perfect for parents, teachers, and librarians. Use these readings for nap time, story time, bedtime … anytime!

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ABOUT BEAR SNORES ON


Bear Snores On
Bear Snores On Cover (Illustrated by Jane Chapman) – One by one, a whole host of different animals and birds find their way out of the cold and into Bear’s cave to warm up. But even after the tea has been brewed and the corn has been popped, Bear just snores on! See what happens when he finally wakes up and finds his cave full of uninvited guests — all of them having a party without him.

 

ABOUT KARMA WILSON
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Karma Wilson grew up an only child of a single mother in the wilds of North Idaho. Way back then (just past the stone age and somewhat before the era of computers) there was no cable TV and if there would have been Karma could not have gotten it. TV reception was limited to 3 channels, of which one came in with some clarity. Karma did the only sensible thing a lonely little girl could do…she read or played outdoors.

Playing outdoors was fun, but reading was Karma’s “first love” and, by the age 11 she was devouring about a novel a day. She was even known to try to read while riding her bike down dirt roads, which she does not recommend as it is hazardous to the general well being of the bike, the rider, and more importantly the book. Her reading preference was fantasy (C.S. Lewis, Terry Brooks, etc…) and historical fiction (L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, etc…). Those preferences have not changed much.

Karma never considered writing as a profession because her mother was a professional writer which made it seem like boring and mundane work. At the age of 27 she realized that she still loved well written children’s books of all kinds, from picture books to young adult novels. By that time Karma was a wife and the mother of three young children. Trips to the library with her children were a combination of emotions…when they got a good book there was fun to be had by all, but so many of the books weren’t what her children wanted to listen to.

Read more about Karma, here.

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ABOUT JANE CHAPMAN

Jane Chapman writes and illustrates children’s books. Her work is published under her real name, and Jack Tickle; her pseudonym.

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4. Coloring Page - Where is Salami?

Another adorable coloring page featuring characters in "Where is Salami?" (by Donna J. Shepherd, illustrated by Jack Foster). 

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5. HighFive Magazine: “Watch Us Move!”

This is an illustration of mine printed in HighFive. Kids’ keeping active–with a little help from animals!

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6. Artist Genealogy

ghosts quoteMy next story is all about ghosts. It is october after all. But thinking about ghosts led me to think about our histories. Genealogy or Family History has become the second most popular hobby in the US after gardening. I’ve dabbled in it some. Who doesn’t want to know where they came from  after all its a part of who we are.

“We’re all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.” ― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas

But we come from more than just our ancestors, and as an artist we have our own geneology. Wether writer, artist. or mathmetician, we can’t help but be influenced by people that came before us. So I got to wondering who were my artist ancestors?

Lets Break it Down

First there is me.

My most influential teachers where Sydney Bowman my art teacher when I was high school age, and my teachers a BYU-Idaho where I got my art degree. Sydney introduced me to Michelangelo which led me to study other artists like Da Vinci, Whistler, The Impressionists and the Pre-Raphaelites.

My college teachers introduced me to the illustration side of art where I became a heavily influenced by more current illustrators like Lisbeth Zwerger, and Trina Schart Hyman,  and the illustrators of the golden age like J. C. Leyendecker, Arthur Rackham, and Kay Neilsen.

I’ve also been influenced more recently by my close illustration friends Shawna JC Tenney, Sherry Meidell, and Jennifer Eichelberger. So I suppose my artist pedigree chart would look like this.

 

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Try it yourself. Here is a blank chart you can save and fill out. I’m sure this would work if you are writer, artist, or anything really. If you make one I’d love to see it. Post in comments and send me a link to your image, or tweet the image @manelleoliphant.

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And don’t forget to download my new ghost story Midnight Ghost. 

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7. Schneider Family Book Award 10th Anniversary Blog Tour & Giveaway


The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences. We are happy to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this award with some great blog posts and a giveaway!

For our post, we're featuring an activity for this year's winning picture book, A Splash of Red.

For more information about the Schneider Family Book Award: webpage | list of winners

Check out all of the links of the Schneider Family Book Award 10th Anniversary Blog Tour & Giveaway:

July 6, 2014 Nerdy Book Club

July 6, 2014 Kid Lit Frenzy

July 7, 2014 Nonfiction Detectives

July 9, 2014 Teach Mentor Texts

July 10, 2014 There’s a Book For That

July 11, 2014 Kathie Comments

July 12, 2014 Disability in Kidlit

July 14, 2014 Librarian in Cute Shoes

July 15, 2014 The Late Bloomer’s Book Blog

July 16, 2014 Read, Write, and Reflect

July 17, 2014 Read Now Sleep Later

July 18, 2014 Unleashing Readers

July 19, 2014 Great Kid Books

July 20, 2014 Maria’s Mélange



A Splash of Red: The Life & Art of Horace Pippin
Written by Jen Bryant
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet

About the book

As a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He drew pictures for his sisters, his classmates, his co-workers. Even during W.W.I, Horace filled his notebooks with drawings from the trenches . . . until he was shot. 

Upon his return home, Horace couldn't lift his right arm, and couldn't make any art. Slowly, with lots of practice, he regained use of his arm, until once again, he was able to paint--and paint, and paint! Soon, people—including the famous painter N. C. Wyeth—started noticing Horace's art, and before long, his paintings were displayed in galleries & museums across the country.

About the activity

I love to paint, and I love Horace Pippin's art. People will give you all kinds of excuses for how they are "bad" at art. Not Horace Pippin. If you read the book, you'll learn that not only did he make beautiful artwork despite injury to his dominant arm, he also made art without being able to afford fancy materials and supplies. I based this activity on both of those things. 

Materials:
  • Some paint and a palette (or other mark-making media)
  • A brush or brushes
  • A container of water
  • Paper or cardboard (or other surface that will accept your media)
  • A subject -- something you want to paint

For my project, I just picked supplies that I already have at home. I do actually have real watercolors and watercolor paper, but you can use any paints and painting surfaces you want. You don't even have to use paint, if you have pencils, pens, crayons, or other mark-making media. You also don't need special equipment--Horace Pippin didn't! As you can see, my palette was a paper plate. My container used to hold spaghetti sauce, but it's now filled with clean water. My brush is no big deal -- it's a well-worn watercolor brush*. You can use your fingers, or paper towels, or bits of sponges. Just make sure to clean up after yourself!

*If you are using a brush, make sure you take it out of the water right after you rinse it. Soaking it and leaving it standing in a jar of water will only damage the bristles! Rest your brush on the palette/paper plate/paper towel so the bristles don't get bent or pulled out.


Choose a subject:

For my subject, I picked some leaves and flowers from the garden. Make sure it's ok with your parent or whoever owns the subject matter you are taking! I also had this little wooden frog, though I ended up not adding it to the final composition. Oh, and my cats are in all of these photos, because they added an extra layer of difficulty to the project. I haven't painted them (yet). You might have some fruit, or a pair of shoes, or something else that interests you. Horace Pippin painted everyday things and sometimes things he imagined, too. So if you can't find any physical objects you want to paint, that's ok! Just dream something up.


Choose sides:

This is how I would normally set everything up, because I am left-handed. But for the purposes of this exercise, we are going to paint with our off-hands. Yes! Horace used his good hand to support his other hand, but especially if you have two good arms, it's actually quite difficult to stop your dominant hand from functioning normally. In this exercise, you switch hands, and you can use your dominant hand to stabilize your off-hand.


Practice:

Here I am, trying to draw the stem and leaves of this jasmine sprig with my right hand. There is also a zinnia blossom, and of course, my assistant, John Carter. As you can see, I didn't have a lot of control over the shapes I was making, but I made them anyway. Watercolor is pretty forgiving like that. I was very tempted to switch to my dominant hand, but I managed to remember not to hand over the brush whenever I reached for it with my left hand.


Here is my finished practice painting. As you can see, using my right hand I couldn't really control my movements. That frog, for example, looks nothing like the real thing! It looks more like a rock. The point of the practice is to experiment. I tried different ways of holding and moving the brush, different ways of mixing the paint, all without using my dominant hand. The other point of this practice is to help you let go of your expectations that your artwork will be perfect.

Focus:

For this exercise, you want to

  • use your non-dominant hand
  • express yourself
  • have fun

Don't worry about making your painting perfect or for how much you will sell your masterpiece--Horace Pippin's first paintings were priced at $5 and no one really wanted to buy them.

Go for it!


Here, I tried to make the zinnia petals by bouncing the rush rapidly off the paper.


It's ok if your paint spatters.


It's also ok if your cat tries to grab your paintbrush and makes you paint a big swoosh where you were trying to just paint a leaf or stem.


I tried to give my off-hand more control by stabilizing it with my other hand. It didn't really help.


Here is my finished painting. I showed a lot more than what I actually had in front of me. And there were quite a few abstract shapes as a result of the cats "helping" me paint.


Switch back:

I also tried painting with my dominant hand afterwards. What do you think? I like the off-hand one better, don't you?

I hope this off-hand painting exercise will give you more ideas about what disability means, and what it doesn't mean. What if you could only paint with your foot, or with the paintbrush in your mouth? Could you still express yourself creatively? Can you create something meaningful or beautiful? What other means could you use instead of painting?

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To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Schneider Family Book Award, we are providing readers with an opportunity to win a set of all three 2014 Schneider Family Book Award Winners. Participants must be 13 years or older and have a US or Canadian mailing address.

Use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter the giveaway. Good luck!

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8. Word Search - OUCH! Sunburn!

Click puzzle to enlarge and print. Find more information about the book HERE. Buy the NOOKbook: OUCH! Sunburn

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9. Purina® “PAW”ty Challenge (Funpage for Kids)

First Book and Purina® have teamed up to celebrate two of our favorite things – reading and pets. And we want you to join the fun! Click on the image below to download and print our Purina® “PAW”ty Challenge funpage. You’ll find creative activities like drawing, story writing and a book maze for your kids or students to enjoy.

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10. Summer Fun - Hidden Picture Puzzle/Coloring Page

"Fishing for Fun!" Just click on the picture, then print out! Your very own Hidden Picture Puzzle courtesy of Liz Ball, creator of Hidden Treasures. Enjoy! *Click on the picture, then print! It will print out full size ready to be colored. If that doesn't work with your printer, right click on the picture, and then 'save picture as...' and then you can print it out using your photo program.

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11. Happy Silly Animal Coloring Fun!

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Here is a PDF containing 38 pages of good quality coloring fun!


The black and white line drawings are taken from three of my self-published eBooks, Jake Bakes Cakes, Don't Juggle Bees and of course, Happy Animals!
It costs just $1.50, and you can pay and download using the buttons below. You will need Acrobat reader, which is free from Adobe.com to view and print the pages. The download size is approx 11.9 MB.
I hope to make more fun activity PDFs like this in the future, so watch this space.

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12. Little Star Books

Little Star Books is a little eBook publishing venture I have embarked upon with celebrated children's book author and editor, Moira Butterfield. We are just publishing to Amazon's Kindle at the moment. Our first two titles are now live. (In fact one of them is downloadable for free right now (April 2nd and 3rd))

The two titles are: My Happy Bookand My Busy Book

Or if you are in the UK: My Happy Book and My Busy Book


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13. Origami for toddler



We love origami!

Not the difficult one :)
We love the simple one, easy to make, easy to laugh at, easy to play.

































Our favorite is this one, the helicopter, I'm amazed that it could fly and turn so smooth, bless the inventor!

Try this at home and have a good laugh..
:)

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14. Welcoming November!

November berartiii..... 2 bulan lagi ke hari Natal,
Mika suka nanyain bulan sekarang, hari ini bulan apa, ma..? Kalo besok bulan apa? Dia kira bulan itu sama dengan hari, kalau hari ini Bulan November, besok itu bulan Desember.. , dan kalo saya jelasin besok itu masih November sampai 30 hari seterusnya, mukanya berubah... 'Maaaaah, kenapa masih lama siiih!??'

Ini beberapa aktivitas dibulan November, sengaja saya cari yg berbau2 Natal, dengan tujuan buat menenangkan dia hehe..

Snowflake
Kenapa disini ngak ada snowflake ma?
"jadii.. kita buat aja snowflake dari kertas ya, mik!?"

:: Ini versi snowflake standar yang persegi enam :)
















:: Jadinya kita tempel dikamar, buat dekorasi, saya bilang, ini pohon Natal kamu.., keliatan kah? Itu... , diatas kepalanya dia :)




:: Ini yang versi 3Dnya, yang ini baguus deh..,
nah dibawah itu cara bikinnya, tinggal klik aja ya, moga2 ngak bingung :o)

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15. End of School Year- preschool

This month Mika will be graduate from preschool, and the teacher give us the whole project to look at, I believe it is an amazing experience for every parents to see their children creation, as for me it's like looking at her personal journal of learning and seeing new things everyday.

This is just part of her project, every time she went to school, she drew her expression, maybe her or her friend, I loveee looking at this, it's like having your own sticker with a personal touch from your kid :D..
Still cannot believe it. Click here for her art project journal :)






















As for my self it is a privilege for me to be able to work and look at her growth from home. For everything is passing so fast, thanks God for this opportunity.. :')

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16.

Ke Pantai! (Going to the Beach!)

:: Look at the colors, love it!
























:: Oh dear, public beach is sooo... *_*
but at least the kids happy, they don't bother about that.. pphhfftt!!

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17.

It's all about eggs

This is what we do last Easter, all about eggs, and thanks to the internet about the tips on how to blow egg, it's so simple and it is so nice to do an egg painting, wish we have know it earlier!


















:: 2 hours project- Each egg painted with poster color, sketched with marker, dried.. and finishing with clear pylox, and their name is 'looney- grumpy and eerie'.... *-^






















:: Instant project- Construction paper egg, I cut a few shapes for Mika, then she decide to make her own egg design..




















:: really-really instant- Plastic egg with many colors, and a timer self potrait project- make sure that the camera is in the safe position! :D

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18.

Drawing lesson


what's that...?

it's a comic mom.. about an eye.. :D

and what do you have to pose like that..?
so I can look cool.. take a pic mom..now.. now.. , finished..?















a comic lesson,
on the top left is an example from me about how -to make a comic, the other is her..., it is amazing how fast a 4 years old could learn and understand a concept, all you have to do is give an easy example and leave the rest to them

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19.

A new hole, the alphabet, and the tripod

Err... just to confused finding the right words..
Just what happened lately in our house, this is the first one



Her first wishlist as a rabbit. Bunny have made a hole for herself, not yet move in but soon I think, she kept diggin and diggin, making my backyard so messy with all the soil - in rainy season!- hmph! but I just let her finish, I never see a rabbit hole before.. maybe next time she will be asking for a mate? *_*











:: She like to be stroke under the ears- just like dogs- funny isn't it? it can put her to sleep sometimes
















Reading



















I'm trying to keep the other little girl busy, trying to teach her how to read now, oooh.. how I admire teacher- how- tell me how- to teach a toddler to read, I don't even remember the first time, Mika always asking about how to read books, but always confuse in the spelling thing- maybe because the mother is a confuserrr.. heehee... So I do this playing with spe
lling thing, outside, drawing the letter, using picture, instead of using books and pencil, so far so good, I think she becomes interesting in this spelling activity, not more than 5-10 minutes per lesson :D..

Tripod


:: This thing absolutely grab her attention, and this is one of many picture that she take, using timer and tripod.

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20.

Lately...

:: rain2 go away..


























:: rainy day, reading is the most common sense activity right now :)


























::
we pampered ourselves, buying a hot air balloon lantern :) it's feel niiicee...
thanks to kamar karma- an Indonesian online shop for selling this, I like it! a lot!

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21. Band/Album Generator

It's Activity Corner here on Tappity Tappity!

Here's a fun thing to do. Seriously. It's addicting like Orange Tic-Tacs and giant bricks of crack cocaine. (Or so I've heard...)

Instructions:

1. The first article title on this page is the name of your band.

2. The last four words of the very last quotation is the title of your album.

3. The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result:

Here's a couple of mine:

Seriously. How could you not buy a couple of sweet CDs that looked like these? I know what I'm doing in my (ahem) off-time.

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22.

Birthday and drawing!



Instead of giving Mika an instant birthday cake, I want her and her cousins to decorate their own version of cake. So I bought a plain mini cakes with many color of icing sugar, and give it to the kids, and few little candles to blow for each kids, yes it's beyond tradition, and yes, they have a good time with this activity, so why bother.. :D


I can say that they actually draw on the cakes, it's beautiful to see the excitement and the proud expression on their face.



And they ate their masterpiece with no doubt, taste it like it was the most delicious cake in the world... nice little world... :))

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23. Moomin Mayo, Mints, Mugs, and More

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