Mid Autumn Festival

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:

1. Call Andrea to book her kids (Megan missed Kaiqi so much)
2. Make lanterns! (I cannot bear buy things I can make easily)
3. 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?