June – ‘Pop-Up Greeting Card!’

There is nothing more heartfelt than a homemade greeting card! In conjunction with Father’s Day and Hari Raya, our students were tasked to create their own greeting card; a pop-up card!

The exercise was to generate ideas, showing how a twist of creativity can add spice to a greeting card.

Before crafting we got our students involved in a small discussion of what images/ motifs represent Father’s Day and Hari Raya. Students then chose their theme from those shared on the list.

Learning Outcome: Pop-up card making, understanding motifs, exercise in composition, acting on their creativity and self-expression. Promoting 'making instead of buying'.

June - Raya 'Ang pow'

"Ang pow" in the Chinese dialect Hokkein means 'red packet" and is given on auspicious occasions like new years, births, birthdays, weddings etc. In multiracial Malaysia, this giving of "angpow" has been adopted by all cultures as a token of giving and receiving good tidings and celebrations. With the coming of Raya Adilfitri soon, Muslim children eagerly await the receiving of Raya 'angpow'... Little colourful packets of varying designs containing money.

The class today is taken through the re-engineering of an "angpow” envelope. The students learn to take apart the envelope, trace its outline, and expend their individual creativity to come up with a personalised design, then reassemble their very own Raya "angpow".

Learning Outcome: Use of re-engineering process to come up with a similar item, differentiated by an individual approach and creativity; so also having fun, honing precision skills and a questioning mind

June –the activity of Foldable Fan

Art expands children’s ways of exploring and expressing ideas in a structured and enjoyable way. Today, the class went through the process of ‘making art’; emphasising on exploring and experimenting with the infinite possibilities of different materials, tools and media of their choice. ‘Functional art’ was chosen as the theme for this week and our students were asked to create their very own foldable fan.

Learning outcome: Exploring and expressing ideas, functional art

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