Raising little business men with a heart - FUn FaIr FUN!

Homeschool fun fair was round the corner and that got everyone excited. Mummy was thinking of popcorn, and son was thinking of probably a million things to make and sell.

So we started brainstorming and KB came up with close to 20 ideas, amongst which were making jeans, house, aeroplance, rockets ... and finally he said "mummy, I like music, I would make a trumpet to sell" and I had to say YES!

So we figured we could let him paint his beautiful drawing board in whichever way he likes and mummy would help to roll it up for him. These are the completed 'trumpets' or 'loud hailer', but we decided to call it a trumpet becuz the name was more catchy.

KB looks at his wallet (probably deciding there were too few coins), picks up his loud-hailer and calls out for customers... ha haha... this is so cute!



After some logistic challenges (something to do with bringing extension wire to hook up our popcorn machine!), mummy decided to scrap the idea of making popcorn and decided to just go for Game-for-charity. There was a Food Crisis at East Africa and that provided an excellent cause to go for. It would be meaningful yet fun to do something like that as a family.




















Game-for-charity : Scoop as many balls as you can under 10 secs. Highest scorer of the day wins Family Boardgame, "Chutes and Ladders". Game is suitable for aged 2 yrs-old onwards!

My 4 yr-old is in-charge of giving out stickers to those who completes the game, though sometimes he would also tend to his 'trumpet' stall.





































Which child would say no to ice-lollies? ;)















Face-painting!




















All good things must come to an end. Many (little) hands make work lighter.

All about planes

KB asked about learning the aeroplane. He wants to know how a plane flies, why a plane can fly, what type of plane are there and what is inside the plane etc.

We read The Flyer Flew by Lee Sullivan Hill, On the Go: Planes by David and Penny Glover, I love Planes! by Philemon Sturges.

Creating a scrapbook about planes
We put together photographs we took at our recent airshow , our visit to The Philatelic Museum which had lots of child-friendly history about things that fly and planes, print off the interior of an airplane and various airlines. We learnt about the first inventors and their attempts at flying a plane and made it into a scrapbook.


































Science Centre Omni Theatre: Legend of Flights.
It was certainly the most inspiring documentary about airplanes as the world watches the revolutionary aircraft Boeings 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus 380 make its maiden flight into the skies. KB enjoyed it tremendously, sat through the entire film with eyes zooming in on every single shots. (Trailer below)





More than just taking an airplane, it is probably every boy's dream to know everything about the airplane. It is an amazing flying machine.



This is a bi-plane. It has wing on the top and a wing at the bottom. We build a wooden airplane.
KB painted every single part of the plane. Looks really wonderful!
















Free Play
Pretend play at the Museum and building train tracks






























Joining in the fun when we did The Very Hungry Caterpillar with Otter. KB loved crafts but dislikes mess. Hahah... see how he puts one hand in slowly...















Making butterflies on coffee filters, see the colours fly.... ! Really quite fun.




















KB played with the fruits and made wonderful discoveries about numbers and additions.We practise still life drawing. He was given a set of numbers and all the fruits the very hungry caterpillar ate, plus two pairs of tooth-picks.





















We visited Butterfly Park at Hort park. Loved that place. The landscapes were beautiful. Loved the variety of plants. We drew again. We just LOVED the swing enveloped by lush foliage.