Sewing Classes… Sewing Toys…

The last four Fridays before half term, I volunteered to help in Little Bee’s class. Her teacher asked if any parent could come and help teach the children to sew.

How hard could it be?

The first Friday was total chaos! I was on the verge of giving up! I only had five children (including Little Bee) in my group.

I persevered… the children perservered.

On the last sewing the children really amazed me with their sewing skills! They sat there and sew very neatly… except Little R who wanted to be the group clown but I know he could sew nicely when he wants to 🙂

And here’s Little Bee’s sewing binka

front sewing

back sewing

I know… the back doesn’t look very neat, but it was her first time sewing using a real needle! It was a yarn needle but it was still a proper needle.

And for half term Mrs O (her class teacher) gave each child a binka, thread and needle to tak home and practice.

The next day, Little Bee sat down in front of the TV, watching her YouTube channels and sew this

front sewing

back sewing

Vast improvement don’t you think? I just helped with putting the thread through the needle, the knots and show her how to do cross stitching… she did this all on her own!

And the day after as I was clearing some shelves, I found this

Early Years Kokeshi Doll Kit

I bought it a couple of years back and then forgot about it as Little Bee showed no interest in sewing! Thank goodness for the sewing class at school and now Little Bee has two new dolls 🙂

pink and red kokeshi

blue and purple kokeshi

On Tuesday, we went to the art shop to get some paint and Little Bee found this

And she made these

There’s a rabbit, kitten, hedgehog and owl… Little Bee is yet to do the fox 🙂

Tulips

We’re in the land of tulips at the moment. We’ve done a lot of walking around but not much sightseeing. Even when we go shopping, we don’t tend to go into touristy shops… the only touristy thing we’ve really done was to go to the flower market and we went to the Tulip Museum. Apart from that we’ve just walked around as Amsterdam is a lovely city to just walk about.

Little Bee has shown me so many times that she is a good traveller. She didn’t complain about the horrible flight (it was very windy and scary on the flight over), we walk for miles and the only time she whinge is when she’s hungry or need the loo. She has walked miles with me and her daddy.

Yesterday, after walking forever we walked home and stopped at a Vietnamese restaurant to get a take away. There was a tulip on the table and to keep her entertained while we waited for our food, I took the napkin that she’s been playing with and asked her to draw a tulip… and she finished up the bottle to my tulip 🙂

Doctor

Last Friday I went to Little Bee’s class show. They were showing us what they have learnt through out the year. I was really impressed on how confident the children was standing up with a microphone in their hand and say their line.

Little Bee had the task of introducing the ‘Art’ section. Her line was ‘We have been learning about people who help us. I am a brilliant artist and I have painted a doctor’

Her classmates and friend continued on with a fireman, policeman, nurse and surgeon painting.

They are brilliant! All of them 🙂

Missing Monster

So last Thursday I went to Little Bee’s school as the Early Years had prepared a Mother’s Day feast!

After the children consumed the feast of sandwiches and cupcakes (I don’t think they’ve grasped the concept yet) I had a look around the hall and found a board full of pictures of missing monsters!!

This is Little Bee’s missing monster.

I have to say that I do like her monster 🙂 Then she said that her monster wears glasses just like her mama. I think I’ll take her statement as a compliment.

Red Nose Flower – Estanis

Last Friday, I brought Little Bee in to work after school to collect donations for her Red Nose bucket. Her task is to draw a flower for each person who put money into her bucket.

You know how temperamental an artist can be and that they need to be inspired… so let’s start with her first flower for Estanis.

She also drew a couple of water droplets to represent the flower being watered 🙂

Plankton Play Doh

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Definitely not Plankton!

Little Bee loves Spongebob and Patrick… but as she has mushed up play doh that came up dark green colour yesterday… she made Plankton 🙂

It looked more like Plankton before she put on the arms legs and mouth… but I still think it looks good. Yes… I’m suffering from PMS (proud mama syndrome) again.

Play Doh Cupcake

Today Little Bee has been busy playing with play doh 🙂

IKEA Straw Pan pipes

I was busy preparing the ingredients for us to make flapjacks when Little Bee noticed a bag of straws in the drawer as I was getting the baking paper out. She asked me if she could have some straws and I passed the bag of straws to her.

She took one of each colour and ran off. A few minutes later she came  back complaining that it is just not working and asked me to help.

I went to the front room wondering what she was up to and the end product is this colourful pan pipe.

It doesn’t sound that melodious as a proper pan pipe but it does have different notes when you blow through the straws.

Now she wants to bring the bag of straws to school so she could make it with her classmates. My ever so thoughtful Little Bee 🙂

Gingerbread Dinosaurs

Ever since I hired a cleaner to help me around the house, I am more relaxed at doing things with Little Bee. Now I feel that I could fit household chores around activities with Little Bee rather than the other way round.

So, when Little Bee asked for a gingerbread man on Saturday, I thought, why not make some as I have all the ingredients at home… plus hubby got a cookie cutter from the charity shop that we haven’t tried out.

And this is what we made 🙂

Story

As we were getting ready for bed and I was busy checking stuff on my phone and telling Little Bee to be patient… like all good moms do… when I turned around, I noticed she was busy typing on her InnoTab.

And here is the start of her story.

We were also busy making greeting cards for her school homework over the weekend, but me being a great mom as I am, did not take a photo of her marvellous drawing of a mosque and her and I standing outside the mosque.

Mama Bee need to be more on the ball!