Activities: Art Jamming for Kids and Adults!

There are two fantastic art jamming workshops on this weekend at Seni Gallery @Seni Mont’ Kiara!

Saturday 30 March (2-5pm)

Join Orkibal (veteran character designer and children’s book illustrator) to create your own character on a 42x60cm canvas with acrylic paints.

Cost: RM80 per person (art materials and light refreshments included)

Sunday 31 March (2-5pm)

Join Jefferson (artist and illustrator, famous for “ah boy”) to “jam some art on tee”.

Cost: RM80 per person (art materials and light refreshments included)

Places are limited (Max 12 pax per workshop) so be sure to register! Call Julie at 012-3873628.

Where is it?

SENI Gallery @ Seni Mont’ Kiara
Changkat Duta Kiara, Off Jalan Duta Kiara,
Mont’ Kiara,
Kuala Lumpur.

Phone: 03-6411 6388

Seni Art


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Good Old Fashioned Games

Aristotle’s school is doing a theme on toys – specifically: old-fashioned toys. You know… the kind we used to play when we were kids. So we’ve been playing a few “new” oldies ourselves…

We’ve moved off Dinosaur Chess and onto a real chessboard:

chess

We chose a magnetic set so we could take it along with us, or “pause the game” without having to worry about the pieces falling over when we have to move the board around the house. Aristotle’s been playing against Daddy as part of their “father and son bonding” sessions now that Aristotle is growing up and reaching the second phase of his life where he looks to Daddy to emulate (Biddulph in “Raising Boys“).

The boys have been having a bit of fun with the magnetic letters on the fridge, so I was inspired to dig out the Scrabble set. It was a tad ambitious, so we cycled back a step to Scrabble Slam! to practice with our four letters words first.

Scrabble Slam

Aristotle’s giving it a good go. Hercules is only interested in spelling his own name and “Mummy”. Occasionally, he might be interested to spell the titles of the other members of the family, too.

Aristotle’s really taken to his card games, so we’re going to give Clue: Suspect a go. It’s the card deck version of the board game Cluedo which I really enjoyed playing as a child. I thought it was interesting to see that quite a number of board games from my childhood have turned into card games. We have Battleship, Monopoly, Sorry! Revenge, Pictionary, and loads more. Of course there are also the golden oldies, like Top Trumps, Uno (which comes in many different themes to delight any young fan), Old Maid, Go Fish!, and who could forget Snap!? Most of these games can be played with a regular deck of cards – that’s what we did. In our version of Uno, 10′s were “change the suit”, 7′s were “reverse”, Aces were “skip”, and 2′s were “pick up 2″.

Recently, Aristotle’s aunt bought him a new board game called Snake Lake and it reminded me that Aristotle’s getting into that fun age where he’s old enough to understand how to play a lot of the board games now. Of course, Hercules is still our limiting factor because he’ll want to “play”, too, and that usually means we can’t play.

Since we’re on to “old fashioned” games… Another one we still play is “hide and seek”. Now tell me a child who doesn’t love “hide and seek”? Of course, Hercules still hasn’t quite mastered the art of hiding well because he gives himself away every time! Sometimes, we make it interesting by hiding a special object and give “hotter”/”colder” clues. If we’re feeling really creative, we make a map and play the treasure hunt game.

Another game I’d like to dig up from my childhood and introduce to the boys is Twister. Now there’s an idea for a party game…


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Return to Kidzania

After our previous disastrous visit to Kidzania, I wasn’t about to go back there for at least another couple of years but Aristotle’s school had planned a field trip there (kids these days are so lucky!) and they needed parent helpers – so off we went…

If I had feared another disaster on my hands, I was suitably delighted that it went a lot smoother this time. We managed to try out the following activities:

Fire Department

Being one of the popular features of Kidzania, it was a bit of a wait before they could get into the action. Kidzania staff kept the kids busy with colouring activities, photo opportunities with the Kidzania mascot, and general chatter. After a 30 minute wait, we discovered that the hoses were down and the kids wouldn’t be able to put out the fire on the burning building. Thankfully, the Kidzanian staff were prepared with an alternative scenario where the kids had to save the cat instead. The children were none the wiser and were proud to have saved the cat.

Save the cat

Window Cleaner

Window Washer

Construction Workers

Construction worker

Tenaga

After learning about power and electricity, our little engineers headed out on an emergency to fix a “broken lightbulb”.

Electrical Repair

Water Bottling Factory

After lunch, the boys went through the process of bottling clean water and left the factory with a bottle of their very own bottled water.

Bottling water

Vitagen Factory

Vitagen Factory

Pilot Training

Pilot Training

I guess Aristotle is just the sort of child that needs to visit a new activity a few times before he can get right into it. He enjoyed this second trip so much he wants to go back there again. Well, we’ll see…


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