Projects, projects and projects kept us busy this weekend.

Let’s start off with Dai Bee – he’s working on his project of what multiculturalism means to him. Before we started, we discussed what the word means – the word “multi’ means many, so many cultures all mixed in one place. From there, we were throwing ideas out of what we wanted to make. He had a choice to write an essay about it or presenting it through art. Well, he chose the latter. I suggested to do colored hand prints on a poster board. He thought that was a fun idea and off to work we go.

Starting out with yellow, we mixed in with blue to get more colors. We just want to be creative, surely there are no green colored skin out there, at least not yet!

Adding more colors to the poster board.

We waited for the paint to dry before doing anything more. After dinner, Dai Bee continued with painting the planet Earth in the center of the poster.

Dai Bee finished it up with the caption “Multiculturalism means ALL IN ONE.” The words “ALL IN ONE” were done with sponges dipped in the leftover paint.

Simultaneously, I was helping Ah Lo with his “Robot” project for school. This week, the class is learning the letter “R” and parents were asked to help building the Robot withe the preschooler. Before we started, I asked Ah Lo to gather what we can use around the house to build this Robot. He came back with:

We started gluing and taping the arms and legs of the robot with the tissue rolls.

Next, major GLUING – first, the stars as the eyes, then soda caps as the buttons.

DECORATING –  wrapping the aluminum foil on the legs, and adding the hands/gloves inside the tube.

Here’s the fun part – decorating the face. Ah Lo punched out a red circle as the nose, and drew a smiley face. I helped him add a tube, topped with some gift wrap accents.

At the very last minute, Ah Lo gave me a toy that can play music when pushed the button. I nearly tore the Robot’s body apart in order to place this toy inside the body of the Robot. Ah Lo named his Robot “Max, the Singing Robot.”

He was happy with it.

This was his Robot we made for last year.

“Today I am thankful to be able to work with the boys…”