Sentosa Flowers - Joys of Spring (Part 2)

Continuing from Part 1, after the sand sculpture painting, we were ushered to Port of Lost World (POLW). What better way to cool off after a hot morning at the beach. Woohoo!

Each child was given curio coins for the activities. Since Joey started school, she is more conscientious of money and the curio coins were pretty precious to her.

As for Jayne, she is still learning about the value of money but nonetheless, still very happy to have some coins. Or to find a thread in her treasure bag.

 

In view of the upcoming Sentosa Flowers event, the children were given a chance to get their hands dirty and try pot planting at the Tree of Wonder.

The staff teaching the kids on how to add in the fertilizer stones, soil, and how to shift the flowers from the small pot into the children’s selected colour pots.

Joey and Jayne with their selected flower pots. I think Joey’s choice is daisy and Jayne’s flower is rose.

 

Time to get our hands dirty… Add in the colour stones and soil.

 

Shake it up and make sure that the pot is at least half filled.

Finally plant in the flower and add more soil to the brim.

 

Dirty hands to show that they have worked hard. All in less than 20mins =)

Remember to water the plants..

And hopefully we will see something like this in a couple of weeks’ time.

The highlight for every child that day has to be the Pirate Ship. Actually the adults were equally excited for the chance to cool down too.

Just a word of caution for parents, remember to apply lots of sun block for your child (SPF50).

 

 

For 30 curio coins, this is a must try – Bubble Party!!

 

 

Before you leave, don’t miss the chance to exchange 10 curio coins for a tasty ice pop.
The ultimate treat on a hot day.

Thank you Sentosa for the invite!

Sentosa Flowers - Joys of Spring (Part 1)

Last year we were invited to witness the unveiling of the Dragon Sand Sculpture. This year again thanks to Sentosa, we were invited to be part of the record-breaking sand sculpture creation by JOOheng.

This is the first year since 2005 to be held by the beach and the attempt to break the Singapore Book of Records with the ‘Longest Snake Sand Sculpture’. The master creator, JOOheng Tan, is our homegrown sand artist who has done numerous sand work all around the world.

Click on the picture below to know more about this year’s Sentosa Flowers 2013 event highlights.

As usual, the girls were super excited when we told them about the event. In fact, any event held in Sentosa is going to be hit with the girls. Especially if they have the chance to play with the sand, colourful sand!

About 10 kids were given the liberty to exercise their creativity to add some colours on this 168m snake sand sculpture. According to JOOheng, he spent 6 days to complete this piece of art. Amazing!

Look at how eager every child is trying to get their favourite coloured sand.

 

Green to start it off for Joey and Orange for Jayne.

 

Rules for the ‘painting’: no stepping on the sand sculpture, no water on the sand sculpture, no pressing of hands on the sand sculpture. Pretty strict rules for kids, but we can all feel the pride of the master when he was talking about his creation.

A simple demonstration.

 

Forgot to ask JOOheng, where did he buy that mini plastic shovel. Pretty cool to have that instead of the spoons the kids were given.

Let’s begin! From this event, I can truly see that Joey is definitely the ‘louder’ sister among the 2 of them. Jayne is slightly more preserved when it comes to arts. I guess they truly live up to their names.

Jayne started with an orange sun picture, the the red to make it more outstanding.

Joey went straight for a large patch of green which is followed by another round of red.

After the sun picture, Jayne wanted to create a butterfly. But I guess it was just a tad too difficult for her. Plus I was never good in art & crafts, so can’t help much too.

JOOheng came along for a while and was pretty impressed by the girls’ work. He even commented that the colours used were bright and well mixed. The size of the drawings were good too, cos from afar, probably the smaller pictures would not be seen on photo.

A rare chance to work with the master *proud daddy smiling as he writes this portion*

Revealing the final product by the J Babies *drum rolls*

A sun and a fish by little Jayne.

A gigantic jelly fish by big sister Joey.

Nice!!

Stay tuned for Part 2 of the girls’ fun day at Sentosa Flowers.