This year’s mid autumn came so fast. By the time I returned
to office from my long medical leave and saw a box of mooncakes on my desk from
David, it was only a week’s away!!
As usual, ideas started forming while I carried the
mooncakes home. Flashback memories of brain numbing karaoke music, psychedelic
spinning lights from battery operated lanterns last year, I knew I have to
right the wrong this time round.
My childhood memories of mid autumn were awesome. Mid autumn
means plenty of cousins, even more food, countless lanterns hanging off trees,
burning candles and proud display of melted wax on playground benches.
Whatever I need to do this year, I have to do fast:
- Call Andrea to book her kids (Megan missed Kaiqi so much)
- Make lanterns! (I cannot bear buy things I can make easily)
- Properly introduce the festival to Megan
One week to the lantern gathering:
Start of paper
lantern making activities
Megan is getting real steady with scissors. Very proud so
will leave the entire cutting to her. She is pretty obsessing with her glue
bottles so will leave that for her too. I am reduced to helper status and it’s
kinda boring.
Granted that the end product is not very pretty but it’s her
craft anyway. Wish I bought better paper for this but will have to make do with
whatever paper I can find in the house!
The Mid autumn legend
Conveying the story of Chang Er is quite tough. I cannot
quite get the story right either. Intended to head to the library to borrow a storybook
on Chang Er but no time and there is nothing to download that narrates the
story. I usually need a visual to tell a
story so fortunately I saw a picture online, which I can lean on. Immediately
copied the picture on A4 and it evolved into a coloring activity.
As I explained the story to her pointing to the picture
while she colors, I realized - WHERE IS CHANG ER? The more questions she asked
about the moon and Chang Er, the more deviations from the original I fed her. I
started to wonder if this is the best way to tell a kid anything…
The Event:
A good simple dinner before we gather the kids downstairs
for the lantern walk around.
Lanterns from NTUC
glow in the dark light strips is a brillant idea
Ethan the gentleman making flower shaped lights for the 2 gals
I have to say that we adults are not as great as our parents
with our hands. Hanging lanterns from trees is not easy at all! How did the
older folks manage to fill the whole tree with lights 30 years ago?
