Singapore National Day Craft 2017 for Preschoolers

We are celebrating Singapore's 52nd National Day tomorrow. I came up with a few crafts for my kids to celebrate Singapore's birthday in Vietnam over the years which I thought I'd share here. Do feel free to use them for your kids. Please note that I have made the samples a bit more colourful by using a colour printer. Your kids will probably be colouring them. All templates are based on printing on A4-size paper.

This is our celebrity dragon from our favourite childhood playground in Singapore.

I used straws here. The strips are A4-size long and 5cm wide. For K1.

Using ice cream sticks

The SG Dragon Template

And this is our beloved Singapore's Merlion.

For K2

The Merlion Template

And who can forget our adorable Singa the Lion?

Singa Mask for Nursery Class

Singa Mask Template

And for the little kids in Pre-Nursery, a paper plate SG flag craft with some help from teachers.

Small 15.8cm paper plate

And for SG51, this was what we did. First, a little inspiration from RWS.

RWS Merlion Template

Then we had a delicious Paper Plate dish of chilli crab.

Chilli Crab Template for 23cm plate

Paper Plate Template if you can't find one

More chillies if you need

For 18.5cm plate - the claws and eyes are smaller

And a Singa the Lion Paper Bag Mascot

And for SG50, inspiration from the RWS Merlion again.

And from the Dragon Playground, a spiraling dragon. Apologies. Can't find the photos for this.

"Happy" and "Dai Nam"

The 3rd pre-school, The Happy Schoolhouse, is coming along fine and should be up and open for business in about 2-3 weeks. A little delayed but not much of a problem.

Will be taking a break on 1 Sep 2011 and biking to this huge theme park know as Dai Nam Theme Park in Binh Duong. Supposed to be about an hour out of HCMC and includes temple, mountains, rollercoasters, a zoo and more. Will blog more about this next week.

Mum and Dad visited last week and had a "rolling" good time here - esp at Ace and Dynasty casinoes. No harm passing time there so long as the stakes are low and all are having a good time. As usual, Dad is here to shop for his golf wear - good value-for-money here in HCMC; half or less than half the price you get in SG. If you're lucky, you may get a bargain at 80% off.

They followed us to Can Tho City in the Mekong Delta as I had an appointment there. A change from the routine run-around in HCMC. We hired a 16-seater bus for the 4 of us - a luxury! - and took about 3.5 hours to reach there. Nothing much has changed since our last visit 3 years ago.

Lazy, lazy

...been a good four months since the last entry. A lot has happened. School No 3 is official after a long search for a suitable location. We now have a presence around the airport area. More updates when it's done up properly.

Nicole and Adeline had come and gone - it was really nice to have them around. Hopefully it will be Bryan the next time round but he seems really caught up with school work and personal work.

We shifted ... yet again. It's a long story but it has taught us a good lesson. If something's too good to be true, then it is. The short story - we offered the owner our budget if she wanted us to stay on. She agreed despite it being low and then changed her mind just before signing the new contract. That sparked a mad rush to look for a new place.


3rd school - front entrance















Back entrance



















Side view

Yes, we got it ...

Yes, we got our third kindergarten at a reasonable rent today. Unless the owners change their minds tomorrow (which is highly common here), we will start our new school year on 7 Sep 09. Seems like the preparation time gets shorter with each kindergarten that we have. This 3rd one will be a real rush. We have barely 6 weeks to get everything in place and ready. The good thing, like I said earlier, is that it is in a move-in condition. So we only need to equip the place and clean it up. More updates later.

Third kindergarten?

This is a location recommended by one of our students' parents and so we went to take a look. It's a nice place tucked between 2 blocks of apartments, and there's a swimming pool. It's quite self-contained with a kitchen, classrooms and offices and definitely in a move-in condition. Problem with the place is that there are only 4 classrooms which means a limited number of students - quite a waste of space.
















































Indoor swimming pool















View from 2nd floor of kindergarten