Creche Visits :)

As part of our portfolio, we need to conduct Creche visits. That is, library visits for pre-schoolers. Some activities include, storytelling, art and craft and a library tour (introduction to library etiquette, membership and learning how to borrow books).

Tome Keeper ♥

My first H.O.T Contribution

H.O.T aka Hooked On Tales is a snazzy Children's Newsletter catered for Pri School students. It's published quarterly and filled with many recommended reads by us librarians, and also games/activities for the kids to participate in.

I was given an opportunity to draw a Halloween-themed colouring page and I jumped at it! I have been waiting impatiently for the newsletter to be out and it's finally here!

Very proud to have my art piece in this. Hopefully, there will be many more to come to share with everyone :)

Beware of pumpkinssss

Tome Keeper ♥

One Learning Hour

On 13th Dec, I conducted my very first One Learning Hour at TRL - Paper Cutting!

I found this book on Amazon and finally got my hands on it. It's a wonderful book that teaches you the different folds and the patterns that go with it.

We did 3 different cuts - row of hearts, snowman and a heart-snowflake

Grandma can cut, so can you!





Savi's row of hearts

Explaining the snowman pattern






The last pattern is more complicated



A heart snowflake !

All in all, it was a successful learning hour! Would love to conduct again, once I think of a new craft !

Tome Keeper ♥

J Special - Pokemon Origami Puppet

Thank you Hafsah for giving me this idea of conducting a Pokemon J special. She did a Pikachu for her Century Square Stories & Craft session and the craft was so cute, I expanded on it.

This J Special was meant for older children and there were 4 puppets to be made overall - Pikachu, Meowth, Salamence (big hit with the boys) and Nidoran.

Isabel, ex-J, helped me preparing the craft materials (as part of her PDKRA). It was very fun conducting the craft session and it was a good coincidence that Tampines Mall had a Pokemon event going on as well.

Savvy!

Tome Keeper ♥

Chinese Ink Painting

It was announced that those in PLS will get a chance to attend a team-building course of their choice from a given list and there were a number of popular ones like baking, chocolate and ice cream making.

Me? My top 2 (we had to choose 2 for 'backup') were Chinese Ink Painting and Tea Appreciation! I was so excited when I saw CIP was one of the choices and put my name down immediately.

It was an even bigger surprise when the final class list had familiar names in it. The location was at Marine Parade Library and the class spent a wonderful few hours learning 4 different art pieces and drawing our very own.

(from left) WRL, TRL, QUPL

This is how you hold the brush

Preparing the calligraphy ink

1st drawing - bougainvillea (supposedly)

2nd drawing - fish in a pond





3rd drawing - bamboo forest

4th drawing - mother hen & chicks

And there you go, my 'masterpieces'! It was a wonderful team-building course and I had a lot of fun interacting with my fellow librarians and pretending to be brush-wielding painter from ancient China. Hahaha !

Tome Keeper ♥

TRL 16th Anniversary

Happy Birthday TRL !

I'm in the organising committee and we had a range of programmes lined-up for the week. I helped out in the first activity - Arty Crafty with a fellow AYP Librarian.

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We also had a colouring contest for the kids. These are the winners of the individual templates (I drew the picture).

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On the actual day, 4th December 2010, there were balloons galore and many fun activities happening like henna painting, games carnival, balloon sculpting and a wonderful cake cutting session.

This is a cardboard cutout designed by me. For the kids to peek their heads through and be a pirate! Yarr!

It was a tiring day but fun-filled nevertheless!

Tome Keeper ♥

Walk For Rice 2010

On 22 Nov 2010, we had a Walk For Rice charity event. We were split into different groups and the route started from the NL Building.

8.30am and off we went! It was rather hot but I had company and spent the time chatting with my friends. Frequent water breaks, along with the wind and some shade, made the blistering morning sun bearable.

Some beautiful sights were captured along the walk and if it wasn't for this route, I probably would never have gone to those spots.

All in all, it was a satisfactory morning exercise with a bunch of goodness thrown in.

I art pleased.

Tome Keeper ♥