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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Fai's

A green elf in its treehouse. Note the blue mushroom.

Two ogres- one big, another small. The big ogre has 4 pets - the big flying pet on the right is a gargoyle and the smaller one on a mountaintop on the left is a harpy

Fai's fruits and vegetables

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Human Anatomy 7April2011

Fai wanted to know what the the human heart and stomach looked like. After digging through our bookshelf, this was the only book I had with a drawing of human parts.

This book is very well-used with its pages held together by tape. When Fai and Han were younger, they enjoyed looking through non-fiction books and encyclopedias instead of story books.

Fai looked intently at the illustration and began to draw.....

Version 1

brain, trachea, lungs, stomach and intestines

Version 2

Now the drawing is more detailed from the windpipe to the branching tubes in the lungs, heart with blood vessels leading into hands, hair on the head and an accurately shaped stomach and lastly small and large intestines.

Fai got fed-up with human anatomy and decided that his creatures made better subjects.

Look at his creature. Try figuring out which of its body parts is its eyeball, stomach, lungs and heart.

We went to the PJ Community library later that day to browse for more pictures and we managed to find a good one but it was a red spot book. Fai snapped a few photos of the illustrations that he liked for future reference.

Unschooling my kids had enabled me to address their queries and interests immediately. It is times like these that makes being a stay- at-home-mom worthwhile.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Pottering 20March2011

Fai trying to teach Han a game of Checkers.

Although Han can draw pretty well, he still asks his big brother for help. Fai would

drop whatever he was doing and assist him. Han has progressed so much that I have to ask whose drawing I was looking at.
These days, Han would announce at the top of his lungs, "I need to draw! Give me a pen!" The drawing bug has certainly bitten him.

JY took over her grandmother's untouched Sudoku book and in 2 days was attempting the 57th puzzle. She insisted I tried out the simpler puzzles that she skipped and when I had completed it, she said "Now you know why I am addicted to this thing??!!"

Fai drew out Sudoku boxes that were out of alignment and added his own numbers into the boxes. He wanted me to solve his puzzles.

I told him I needed straight lines and showed him how to draw the boxes. He added the numbers, he made sure he doesn't place the same numbers in each column or row or region.

I was discussing the house's renovation plan with Dear hubby and told Fai to give me a moment.

Whatever we discussed, Fai managed to draw out. Note the rope to climb up to the loft.

Art inspired by Machika and Mulu.

Machika taught JY the crane origami.

The carved orange peel(top, right) by JY was an attempt in replicating the wooden warrior's shield she saw in Sarawak.

Fai cut out his orange peel into a castle and a human figure.

JY managed to find this long-forgotten origami book and she soon mastered folding a duck. She created a flock of ducks :)

Fai's green origami penguin with breast coloured in.

Han found a dead millipede. I ran to get my microscope eager to have a look at its mouth and legs. Han said its legs look like crab's legs. The head got lost when I spent too much time focusing the microscope.

Ean tried to shove dried leaves under the eye-piece.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Fai's Art at Mulu March2011

Che-che's Birthday.
Note the long legs. The 4 knights under the table are Fai, Han, Ean and Arian.

Evolution
From left, tiny plankton-like lives in water evolving into a bigger creature with wings and appendages. Further evolving with increase in size until the highly evolved creature is formed (top right) .