Our Horizon - Parenting Outdoor Sketching

From north to south, east to west increasingly beautiful Penang our homeland that used to fill with

greens, mountains, deep sea blue had been quietly eroded... eaten up by bulldozers, reclamation 

and given ways to concretes of blocks of costly bungalows, high-rises, huge malls and…

What more we could offer to our children after we submit in destroying all these

re: nature and the precious in it??

We could restore an old house but we could never bring back the ambient of nature!

And we refuse artificial pleasure from theme parks and indoor air-conditioning!

So, shall we awake, say NO this time! (sometimes we need to!)

Gently we protest and Creatively we preserve, admire Gertak Sanggul (south horizon of Penang) through the eyes of a child!!  A PENANG CHILD!!

Children Art Exhibition

The 3rd Children Art Exhibition.

The Very Grouchy Bugs - Pistachio & Nasi Lemak Spoon Bug to cheer you up!

 

First let's eat some pistachio nuts. 

And listen to story "The Very Grouchy Lady Bug" by Eric Carle before we started the exploration to work and transform the recycle items that are so commonly seen and being simply thrown away or kept for no other purpose for ages...

 

 

You need only three pieces of pistachio nuts' shells then draw any lovely patterns you like on the shell with marker pen. (commonly called as magic pen in Malaysia) After that put aside for later use.

- Gold/ any colour wire. Cut them in six short strips as they will be the legs for your bug, you can use pipe cleaner as the bug's legs as well.

- Two nasi lemak plastic spoons (Any colour. You can get this type of spoon not only your purchase of nasi lemak sometimes in some kopitiams some hawkers will give this spoon for soup) and a pair of toy plastic eyes (suggestion : make your own pair of eyes using black and white papers.)

Pistachio is nice to eat, easy and last very long to store!

You can use plastic hot glue to put all the parts together, after that I suggest that you tie a string around the body of  the (the part where two spoons stick back to back together with six strips of wire) bug and it is very  nice to use as hanging deco on your car's look rear  mirror, enjoy trying!