Category: fun

Chocolate and balloon diy for kids

We were invited to diy our own Chocolate candies recently. In the month of Dec, everyone is in the mood to celebrate, how can we resist the sweet invitation?

Jointly organised by Party Parlour (Jane) and Playful Elves, we made our way to West Coast Plaza for the event. Daddy will talk about the “Playful Elves” playground in a separate post.

In short, the Chocolate making process is quite easy –> Choc-munch-Melt-munch-Mold-Freeze-munch. It takes some practice before we can “heat” the chocolate properly.

Otherwise, the Dark and White chocolate temptation proves to be too sweet, kids kept pinching on the chocolate bar! Fortunately, Jane had brought extra chocolate.

Although the preparation might be a bit messy, the end product is too good to resist 🙂

We got different designs, Robot, snowman and candy. All taste so good 🙂

We did balloons too. We were concerned when Jane started twisting the balloons in all directions, half expecting the balloons to eXPLODE.

The balloons are very durable, and with some effort, we got our own Christmas wreathes, and even snowman! Those who cannot help with the balloons played with the pump.

More fun workshop photos can be found on our fanpage, click here. We were so happy that CheekieMunkies were our baking buddies 🙂

We would like to take this opportunity to thanks Party Parlour and Playful Elves for the invitation. Our host, Jane is very talented, she even organise robot-building for us in a previous class 🙂

If you need someone to host your parties or events, or if you are interested in more kids activities, do give Party Parlour a call.

Phone : +65 91051785
Email : partyparloursg@gmail.com
Website : http://www.partyparloursg.com
Fanpage : http://www.facebook.com/partyparlour

Image credit –
the Party Parlour poster and one of the candy photo (fourth collage above) is from Party Parlour fanpage

** Update.. 2012Dec27 – Our Playful Elves blog post about FUN is up.

Zoo Hoo – zookeeper for a day

We were invited to Singapore Zoo’s Zoo Hoo event.

Zoo Hoo is where our kids can come in close to the animals, trainers, understand the different Zoo careers. Wei and Kang enjoyed their Zoo Hoo session back in 2010.

The difference for 2012 was “Jungle out loud”. There are some enriching encounters like “King of the Savannah”, “Ape-solutely Melodious” and “Elephant Symphony”. We can hear how animals vocalize and even play the different musical instruments.

On our tram, we caught the usual suspects. Maybe we are late (10plus), some animals were already in dreamland.

The Sun and Rain play “catching” with us too, alternating between wet and humid. Mandai Zoo literally become Rain forest.

We head to Animal Show to avoid the drizzle, and maybe say Hello to Dora (part of Zoo Hoo event). Someone is playing cat and mouse on the compound.

First time visitors will be amazed at the cat’s agility (catch the video below)

Before the cat and mouse bump into each other, our friendly hosts encouraged us to participate in some games to warmup.

NBA players come in all sizes. The rat is so cute !

As part of Zoo Hoo’s programme, there was a Greet and Meet session with Dora and Diego.

Video : Zoo Hoo encounters

We miss the animal petting sessions and the bubbles after the Animal Show. But kids are not complaining, we got Dora and Diego.

There is always an excuse for Ice Cream Time, now With Panda flavour cover.

We would have loved to participate in more activities, if not for the rain. However, we make do with the lousy weather. Kids were excited when the our tram roll down it’s raincoat. As we roll around the Zoo, Daddy ask the kids whether animals need to hide from the Rain.

Enjoy the zoo, even when it rains. Don the raincoat, try to splash some puddles.
The kids did that on their school outing some time back. It will be a new experience for everyone.

More Zoo Hoo photos can be found on our fanpage, or revisit our Zoo Hoo adventure in 2010.

We would like to take this opportunity to thanks Singapore Zoo (part of Wildlife Reserves Singapore) for the invite. Every trip to the Zoo is always a new experience for us.