Art for your Kids II

I remembered taking art lessons when I was a kid. I remember this art teacher's way of conducting her lesson: She will ask us to copy her drawing from the whiteboard wholesale, right down to the way she drew her people; with large noses.

It was when I was in Junior College, my entrepreneurial spirit kicked in and I decided to teach kids how to draw. I was thinking I could probably draw better than that teacher since I got an A in my GCE 'O' levels for my art. I remember occasions that my classmate in secondary school would "copy" my artwork sometimes! In fact, I contemplated studying art in Junior College but was discouraged as I was in a triple science combination.

Wanting to be independent from my parents, (i.e. stop taking my pocket money), I asked my father if I can run my own art lessons at his RC. He agreed! So I designed a poster, photocopied and up in went around the neighbourhood. I had some (not many) kids for a start.

It was a creative outlet for me, thinking of different pictures to teach the kids to draw (or copy) every week. I remember teaching them how to make this fireworks picture by scraping of black parts of their crayons.

Now at Mr Bottle's Kids Party, we also run art and craft workshops. It's like full circle to my "art career"!

Do catch our staff at different OCBC branches teaching kids how to draw!

Art for your Kids

Another passion of mine is art!

I would draw my own comics series, like Tin Tin. It's a pity I throw quite a bit away during spring cleaning some years ago. Here's what left:

I also love drawing the latest cartoon series on TV like ghostbusters and ninja turtle!

(My very own "How to Draw Cartoon" book)

Here are activities you can do with your kids:

• Give them a blank book or my Nothing Book, tell a story and ask them to draw it. You will be surprised how different the perspective of your kid can be from adults!
• Give them a blank book or my Nothing Book, give them some ideas to kick start their own storybook or comic.
• Draw some shapes and ask them to imagine and expand their own drawing from there.

Hope you enjoy them!

Sand activities!

We have a lot of different new activities recently. One of the most fun activities that we are doing is Sand Castle Building!

Every Saturday from 12-3pm at Tanjong Beach Club, Sentosa, we will having lots of sand related activities like sand relay games, seaside craftwork and even a session when we will make a casting of kids' footprints! (which you can bring home for souvenir!)

The sun, the sea, great food (brunch for $28+++), a fun kids pool, with lots of cool activities. I definitely will be there lots!

A fun planting activity (and it's green too!)

Planting can be very fruitful (sorry for the pun) and educational activity for the family. The type of fruits/plant depends on the space that you have. Some suggestions of plants that you can grow are (and in order of space needed):

• Chilli
• Lime
• Mango

Chilli plants grow into small to medium sized bushes from half a metre to two metres tall. How big they get depends on the species and variety. My grandma used to have one that's like 1 foot tall of chilli padi variety that she grew in a pot.

Chilli likes the warm environment and don't mind humidity so it's great in Singapore!

There's lots of different kind of seeds that you can purchase from flower shops to grow on your own! Check them out and send in your photos of your latest green project to us!

Robot Making Workshop

This is a great activities for family and kids:

Objective: To creatively turn recycled materials into useful items/art piece
Materials Needed: Old Chopsticks, Rough Paper, Egg cartons,Scissors, White glue, Plastic grocery bag, old Cardboard boxes, and anything that you can collect to recycle.

Start the activity by asking the kids to collect items that the family are about to throw away. Collect items that you and the kids think will be useful in making robots. Use phrases like "Does this look like a robot's hand? What can we do with this box?" You can suggest ideas like, "perhaps you can use this box to be the secret compartment where your robot hides his special suction gun."

Once you have enough of the items, try to piece them together using glue! Encourage your child to be creative. Paint the robot to the colour that you want! That's it!

Personally, it's the process of collecting the items that is fun and meaningful for the kids. Enjoy!

Rabbit Mask!

Activity in Jan 2011

Asian Children's Festival 2011: Bring your kids! Click here for schedule and more information!

Tile Painting

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." - Walt Disney

Kids love to be creative! Art & craft, like tile painting above, are a great addition to any events.

Happy Mom's Day at Hilton

Hilton Singapore will be making a HUGE cake for Mother's Day on the 9 May! It's going to be AMAZING!

Mr Bottle's Kids Party will be taking photos of mummy and the little ones with the cake so you can save this memory forever!

Not only that, kids get to decorate their own photoframes scrapbooking style! So come to Checkers for the Sunday Brunch this Sunday and it is going to be a Mother's Day you will remember forever!

Art & Craft

I like my Bunny Rabbit!

Girl on right: My Bunny's looking at me!

They wanted to draw something extra, and this is what they came up with after awhile....

Girls: This is how our dream house look like!

Mask Making

Do you like my rabbit?

I am a chipmunk!

I am just very cool!

Art & Craft

Sometimes, we also organise workshop on requests of our clients. The above is us conducting the Christmas Ornament workshop.

More photos!

Here are some more photos of the kids launch. These are courtesy of Kelvin Khoo. You can contact him for your parties at 90038994 or kelvin_photography@yahoo.com.sg For more photos by Kelvin and Yixin, you can see it at http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk224/mrbottle/Kids%20Launch/


Paint me!


mi ni my ni mi ni mo... I will choose this picture for my face!


I am "Mr No"


tada!!


Say Cheese!


Look at the pen that I did for my teacher!