My Precious Princess, Xin Ru: Lantern Festival 2008

Xinru's childcare centre informed us to participate Lantern Making with the kids. The condition of the contest is to make a lantern with the kids and not for them and after the submission, the kid if suppose to 'D0 and tell' the teachers and the other kids the process in making the lantern... The parents are suppose to do a voting for which level but not supposed to vote for their own child.

After i saw the note from the teachers, i cracked my head... Cause the lantern that we are making have to be something that Xinru can hands on with so when the teachers asked her about the making of the lantern, she knows how to answer.... Finally, i decided to make the lantern using the plastic egg tray and lucky i got help from my colleagues and managed to get 3 egg trays.. hehe....

I started thinking of how the lantern should look like and try to see if it looks presentable and Xinru will do the decoration job. I cut out the shapes of love and stars, got them all together and do the lantern with Xinru over the weekend before 2 Sept.

I showed Xinru what i did and tell her and she took great interest also.. hehe After i complete with the shape of the lantern, i pasted the double sided taped on the shapes that she is suppose to paste on the egg tray and she will remove the tape and pasted it onto the tray... Of course, the some of the shapes will paste out of shape..hehe...

~~The Final Product~~

This is taken after she brought back home after the competition.. so the lantern is a bit 'koh yah' hehe.... And guess the results of the competition.... See below...

i did not know the results till Xinru came back and show me the cookies that she has with the above result slip attached on it... :) Oh well, i was happy cause she won a prize right..hehe....

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This year's Lantern is not much of special cause we did not bring Xinru to Chinese Garden as i need to rest at home after the operation... Nevertheless, i asked my brother and sis to come over and bring her down to have some Lantern Festival mood and i am glad that Xinru did enjoyed herself... Xinru insisted in bringing the lantern that we made so she asked my brother to hold the Hello Kitty one and my sis to hold the Barney one..hahaha...

Almost every year her lantern were all bought by my mom and my sis. This year, Xinru requested for a Hello Kitty one and my mom bought one for her and my sis bought her a Barney one...

~~Lantern from Granny~~