May-My First Shadings

Today the class was introduced to another famous rendering technique- Shading. Shading is one of the fundamental aspects of art where it takes creative works up to the next level; giving works more depth and realism. The class focused on the basics; paying close attention to appearance and distance of objects, light source, shadows, intensity and direction of light.

Learning outcome: Introduction to Shadings, shadows, crosshatch in, smooth pencil shading, and realism

May-Mother's Day!

“If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love!”. Mother's Day is for children to show appreciation to their mothers. There is nothing more lovingly crafted for mother than a handmade ‘potted flower-card’ from her child!

Happy Mother’s Day ! Hope you love the flowers!!

Learning outcome: Teaching students to show appreciation, and the simple joy of making and giving gifts

May –Mosaic Paper Plate

Today our students were given the liberty to choose and create their own mosaic paper plate project. ‘Landscape, animals and princess’ were the more popular themes chosen by them. This activity helps hone their skills in colour shading and coordination, creativity and psycho-motor.

Learning outcome: hones colour shading colour coordination skills, enhances creativity, allows simple pleasure of tearing up paper and splattering glue all over for an individual 'masterpiece'.

April – Kuda Kepang

The multi-ethnicities in Malaysia significantly influences the rich and the uniqueness of our arts, traditions and culture. Today, our aim is to introduce, create awareness and try to preserve our traditional arts for the next generation.

The class started off by discussing the origins of ‘Kuda Kepang’ and everyone was given a glimpse of what is,  and how Kuda Kepang works via video clips.   Next, our students creatively crafted their very own and unique ‘Kuda Kepang’.

Learning outcome: knowledge about Kuda Kepang, character design and creativity development

April – “Somewhere..beyond the sea..”

Today our students dived deep into yet another creative adventure by exploring new art technique called ‘spiral yarn collage’. The exercise not only helps in developing creativity and patience in art, but also trains ‘design planning’; a strategic design approach where in today’s case, our students are required to assess in advance, the colours and materials before designing their ‘fish’.

Learning outcome: Creativity, Patience in Art, Design Planning

April - Robo Cup Marionette

Today our students were introduced to one of the oldest art in the world (dating back to 4th-5th century!), ‘Marionette’ – a string-operated puppet. Class was given the freedom to explore their creativity by designing their very own Robo Cup Marionette. 

Research finds this activity helps stimulate imagination, encourage creativity and can do wonders for language, social-emotional, cognitive and physical development.

Learning Outcome: Encourage creativity, Development of Language, social-emotional, cognitive and Physical development.

April - Toy Car Designer

Today both sessions designed and built their very own toy car! Not only was the activity fun and exciting, today’s activity had significant cognitive and academic benefits especially in improving their fine motor skills, encourage thinking, focus and patience. This activity will also help give the idea that toys need not necessarily be purchased, but can also be built from common household items.

Learning outcome: Creativity, focus and patience and building one's very own toy