Kids Archive

What my kids are like, and how to raise your child/children in this day and age.

Alphabet Chart, Number Chart and Nursery Rhymes Chart

When I said that my alphabet chart is the best alphabet chart in the world, I am not kidding.

Started last April, finally, it was conceived. As mentioned in my article about teaching ABC to your kid, the chart will function not just for alphabet familiarization but as well as a tool for phonics. And from that post, I mentioned words/ objects that I will use for the chart. My dilemma in drawing was solved by printing the letters, using clip art for the objects. I cut and paste then add a few color using crayons (oil pastel to some) and voila:

So far, the only confusion is Q where there is a duck.. I still have to explain the sound ducks made.. Row for R was tricky..same with run.. I opted for row so we can sing row row your boat..

With my alphabet chart, teaching phonics will be easier, the chart can be used for teaching how to read 3 letter words, beginning sound, middle sound and last sound.. if you noticed, all vowels were used as middle sound.. fan (jar, van) for a, bed (keg, net..) for e, pig for i, log for o, sun for u and so on..

Aside from the alphabet chart, I also made a number chart.. numbers 1-10 and numbers 11-20 (as requested by Chico):

was too excited to make this number chart that I did not consider the size of the objects used.. seems like 3 and 6 is equal..

This week, I will make colors and shapes chart, I will also make nursery rhymes poster.. this is our list so far:

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (for shape)
The Ants Go Marching One by One (for letter A as well as counting)
Row Row Your Boat (for letter R)
Barney Elephant Song (for letter E)
Butterfly song for F
What the Duckies Do for QUACK QUACK
Wheels on the Bus for letter B
Bahay Kubo (for vegetables)
Sit Down, You’re Rocking The Boat (for Up and Down)

will also make copies of alphabet and number charts to place in our bedroom. And will also plan Chico’s curriculum and Sati’s too. Hopefully by July, we can start homeschooling and of course I will give you updates every week 🙂

Sati’s New Play Clothes: Tie Dyed Shirt with Heart Design

If you have noticed, my boys only wear white sando as their pambahay..it has been that way ever since. And we only buy one kind of sando (Loving Couple sando)..when Sati arrived, most of her clothes were printed house dress or house blouse. Recently, she’s developing a certain likeness to Chico’s sando and insist on wearing it from time to time.. it must be the cooling effect of cotton sando.. but oh boy! she looks like a boy wearing a boy sando!

It’s so hard to say no to this girl.. so I take out my creativity once again, bought a few boy sando, dyed it and sew to make a razor girl sando.. teehee

That’s the finished product.. 10 new sando fro my little girl! to make it a bit more girly, here’s what I did:

I sewed a garter on each side of the sando (leaving at least one inch from top and from the bottom) then sewed the back to give the a more defined razor back effect, and here it is:

Tie dying is one of my favorite thing to do.. when I was in high school, I used to tie dye my old shirt, but I only knew one design, the simplest tie dye design.. circle tie dye. When I had my first born, I learned how to make spiral design with 3 colors and tie dyed some of their clothes with spiral design in red, green and yellow! (reggae yeah!)

Here’s how to to create a spiral design for tie dye:

Take the center of the clothes and start twisting it to form a circle
Tie the clothe and make sure it is tight.
Divide the clothes into 3, then pour dye in each part.
Do it on the other side then rinse with water.

For this project, I used blue, green and red.. not a good color combination haha

For Sati’s play clothes, I had to look for other designs and so far, the easiest was the heart design:

Here’s how to tie dye with a heart design:

Using a white shirt, flat it out then take the center of the front of the shirt.
Fold the center then draw a half heart, mark it heavily
Fold the heart design and make sure that your marking forms a straight line when folded.
Tie the folded shirt, to the part where the markings are

to make a two tone tie dyed shirt, dip the smaller area to the desired color, as it is with the photo above, the heart design submerged into red dye. After that, dip the bigger part to the other color. You can also use one color for this design (like the violet sando above)

Here’s the finished product:

MY little girl love her new sets of play clothes so much!

Spongebob Birthday Party

For a family with 6 kids (4 coming from me and one each from my two sisters) birthdays only mean one thing, PARTY! Our parties would always include, cake, pasta and piñata and a theme!

Most of the times, it’s Spongebob.. specially if it is an impromptu party and unplanned party. For one, Spongebob themed party is very easy to prepare, from Spongebob invitation to DIY Spongebob cakes and of course Spongebob piñata.

The first ever Spongebob party we had was when my nephew turned 4 years old. It was an impromptu one, taking advantage of the fact that the kids are complete (my nephews lives in Nueva Ecija).

Since we had piñata when Chico turned 1, my boys believed that a party is not a party without piñata .. so it was almost a tradition that every birthday, piñata (check our collection) should be present. So when we thought of having a party for my nephew, 2 days before his birthday, Spongebob was the easiest choice. He’s square and he’s so yellow! Spongebob piñata can be done in less than an hour! So here’s our first Spongebob piñata:

And for the birthday cake, our very own Spongebob Birthday Cake:

That’s a Goldilocks chocolate cake decorate with Spongebob sticker characters and gold coins (to give that ocean feel haha)

Expereincing how easy it was to do a Spongebob themed birthday party, it was decided that for Mico’s 5th birthday (the same year) we will be having Spongebob again!

This is Mico’s piñata for his 5th birthday, his cakes was not Spongebob inspired though.. but his birthday invitation is a Spongebob birthday invitation:

And for Chico’s 4th birthday this year (and Dylan’s too! they’re 5 days apart), we had Spongebob Party again!

The cartolina I bought was too yellow for Spongebob haha but it was still a pretty sight.. We had the mocha cake with blue writings on it and to give it an ocean feel, we scattered the blue Happy Birthday greetings then add a few decors (mostly out of drawings), add a few gold coins and jellies and mentos and voila! I also downloaded b for the greetings.

For the loot bags, we made a paper bag out of the yellow cartolina and drew Spongebob face on it.. we also had yellow balloons.. and that completes our Spongebob Party!

Spongebob Birthday Invitation.. check!

Spongebob Birthday Cake.. check!

Spongebob Birthday piñata.. check!

Spongebob Birthday loot bag.. check!

Spongebob Birthday balloons.. check!

What more is missing? hmmm Spongebob guests!

See you on our next Spongebob Party!