Building and learning by doing

One of the focus in our homeschool curriculum's craft is wood working. Due to my lack of experience with that, I signed the kids up for Lowe's free kids building workshops. It was actually pretty good. The kids made a pirate ship. J had no problem while Prime needed some help in hitting the nail straight and hitting it hard enough. But with a little practice, he will have no problem. It was a great experience; the kids liked their own creation and wants to come back and make more and we will do exactly that. They even get an apron and a certificate with a patch to iron on. I saw many kids there with lots of patches. Some even got goggles.




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Later, we went to attend but also to help to put up decorations for a baby shower. Congrats, S. We can't wait to meet your baby girl!

J and Prime were good little helpers: setting up the table clothes, carrying the presents, decorating with banners and lanterns, putting blue stickies on the wall ( J said they are kinda of like play doughs) to hang decorations, and even blowing up balloons. They learned if you don't hold on to the balloons (since the balloons haven't been tied to a string nor to their wrist), they will fly up into the tree, and then to the sky.

After the party, I encouraged the kids to hold the puppy and they tried and learned that Max is a very nice puppy. (We have no dog nor cat so my kids are always quite weary of dogs/cats esp. since once when Prime was young, a hyper puppy knocked him down from behind and J got scratched by a hyper puppy). So I'm proud of them for trying to overcome their fears. Today, they learned through doing that its not too bad.




Just wanted to share, my sister in law and her son made that piece in the back of Prime. Too bad I didn't get any good pictures. But it is filled with diapers and decorated with baby toys, a crown and a tutu for the baby girl. How cute is that!