We missed Uncle Henry!

We missed Uncle Henry!

He has pinky cheeks, white hair almost bold, a healthy looking senior citizen who used to work as a senior security guard at the Maplewoods Condominium. He is a caring person who loves children and take good care of us whenever we needed help from him for our art classes! He would let us use the function or meeting room when parents facing Internet booking problem or absent minded parents who forgot to book the venue!

I remembered 4 years back, I stopped teaching Art at Maplewoods. Uncle Henry gave the parents my contact numbers which I'd registered from the entrance guards. I think that time was very strict because of SARS, they would want us to fill up our contact numbers as well. My art classes regained with new students again! Old students came back too! Uncle Henry definitely made the art classes happening again when he got me back! I'm fully grateful for his assistance and being a responsible and caring security guard. He'd made Maplewoods a place filled with children's joy and cheers! I can tell in his eyes, he's very happy to see children cheering around when the art class is on! He has definitely see the children growing up!

This year, we don't get to see him in the security office anymore. The management told us Uncle Henry has retired... we are very sad....but, we hope to see him again if we can :D I am so regret that I never take picture of him with the children, however, his kind image is always on our mind. Hope he could come back one Monday and visit all of us!

Wish Uncle Henry has a happy golden years ahead!

With all our well wishes and blessing!

CNY Chinese Folk Art Painting

Jianli, Kenny and Siaosiang have painted a very colourful Chinese folk art painting to welcome the year of OX! Love their vibrant colours! These are very happy paintings! Cheers!

It's always nice to smell the fragrance from the home made Chinese New Year Cookies. First of all, they're freshly baked and hand made ;) I bought a few jars from Mrs. Looi, Siaosiang's Mummy :) Siaosiang even made a jar of chocolate cereal for me as Chinese New Year gift :D Thank you for the yummy Chinese New Year cookies :D Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Spring Is Coming!

Prudence, Ethan, Dylan and Sammi create a work of colourful Chinese New Year poster to welcome the coming festive season! Happy Chinese New Year!


Also, I wanted to share this with everybody! Prudence and Ethan's Mummy Li Lyn bakes very delicious pineapple tarts! I bought 2 jars from her on the spot once tasted a sample ;p Yum! Next time give me a jar for sample k ;p Hee...

Chinese New Year Red Packet 2009

Dear Friends & Parents,
Joeel has designed and illustrated very cute and pretty Chinese New Year Red Packets for both DBS and POSB bank! Hurry, go and exchange cash for free ang bao zhua! I believe all children will love to receive these ang bao from you!

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Cheers,
Esther

KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!

Dear All,
Happy New Year 2009!!!
Share your dream & put a smile on a child's face!
Join the Keep The Dream Alive art competition in support of The Business Times Budding Artist Fund (BT BAF) and make a difference to little children who love the creative arts.

How to join? Get your Keep The Dream Alive art competition kit from Teacher Esther which cost $15.00* each and will contain a template on which you can draw, colour, create, pattern, sew and design your dreams on. It also contains an additional template that can be folded into a box to keep your precious ideas or given away to make someone's wish come true.

*Nett proceeds will go to BT BAF

Submission from 20th Jan to 14th Feb.
Once you have put your dreams on paper, please send them to:
Yellow Octopus Pte Ltd
85A Owen Road
Singapore 218899
Tel: 6298 9920

Click this link for full information:-

http://www.keepthedreamalive.yolo.sg/main.html

Do a good deed and making your dream come true!

Cheers,
Esther Lim

Tissue Box Pet House

I promised these young ladies that I'm going to bake gingerbreadmen for them as Christmas treats! They exclaimed "Horray!" and even requested me to bake for their siblings too! Sonia brought a new friend named Lina to the art class today ;) I remembered she gave herself a nickname, Greasy??? I gave each of them a template to build a house! I asked them, "What kind of house do you want to live in??" They answered in no time "Pet House!" There, they drew pets at every windows:- cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, parrots, goldfishes and even terrapins! They're one true animals' lovers ;) Good job ladies!

Jellyfishes are spreading their tentacles!

I wanted to share the joy from my artists friends Iyvone Khoo and Miguel Guzman who are working overseas and their artwork jellyfishes are swimming around the world and published on MONDO the International Magazines! Three Cheers for them! :D

Bonding Experience for Mother and Son

I'm teaching at United Square for A Million Little Things Art & Craft Shop. It was my first time teaching Art for Mother and son at the same time. Janet was learning folk art and her son Mason was learning how to draw his favourite Ben Ten Characters! ;) It is a bonding experience that Art can actually bond them together! They learn to appreciate their differences and interests at the same time!

Leopards At Bishan

This spotty big cat really made the little artists focus on their artwork ;)

Leopards At Maplewoods

Ai Mee and Sonia did a good job for these pieces of artwork :)
Atagasthya was on the summer holidays that's why he missed this lesson...

Leopards At Thomson

Here are some beautiful artwork from sat 4.30pm-6pm class. I didn't managed to take the pictures of leopards drawings from 12pm-1.30pm class and Amanda's artworks :s I was too busy :s

In the Sky @ Maplewoods

Atagasthya is back to Art Class today! Welcome back!

Positive Art by LYKE

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My art students Looi SiaoSiang and Kenny Tan's masterpieces were auctioned @ the Art House! They 'd done a good deed for their school St Andrew's Autism Centre! Their supportive family and friends were all there too! Well, Joeel and I were invited too :)

Channel U interview Teacher Esther Today!

Channel U came and interviewed Teacher Esther today! I was pretty nervous at first but I realised I was not!? Because my mind was with my students' art making in the class! They came in when my class just started, so it was kind of multi- tasking for me. Mr Chew (TCS actor) came and interviewed me, he's the host or producer of the show. He helped me a lot in Mandarin speaking program, and interpret my meanings in more proper sentences... thanks to him else I would rather be speaking English instead! ;p Well, lots of NG, but luckily Mr. Chew and his cameramen were very patience :p Hee... My lucky students are going to be in the show too! Catch them on 6th Nov08 @ Channel U 9.30pm program called Xiao Xiao Yi Shu Jia!

Calrose Robots

These little artist can do pretty good invention in their robot drawings! Their drawings and colours explained everything in visual art! Their robots have come alive!

My growing students...

Aimee gave me a giant chocolate chips cookie and asked me to snack with them during the art class! Gosh, how nice if I have a cup of coffee on the spot, anyway, I let them be as they snacked while they're doing their work ;)

Lanterns Making 2008

These are Mr. Lin's little darlings! They're all young ladies in this class! Mr. Lin has to take leaves for his studies as I'm here to relief his art classes ;) Chantel (Theon's sister) shouted from the back, "Teacher Esther, imagine you're our Mother and we're your children!" I was like this :s I can't imagine I have so many daughters! But, one thing I know is I'm glad that they enjoy the lesson! :)
Here's my class and they're more playful in their work ;) They're bunch of helpful students!
This class has more sense of creativity in their drawings! Nice colours too! ;)

Bobble 2008 Exhibition

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Another must not miss event especially for kids! This exhibition isn't a long one (28thAug-9thSep'08) Go and visit during the one week school holiday! This time you will see most of my students' self-expression artwork. Enjoy!

Goodbye Hannah!

Hannah has been learning art from me since she was 4yo. She stopped art class last yr and came back again to continue her lessons! Of course I'm very happy to see her back again! She's in primary one now. Her Dad will be posted to Shanghai to work and they will be joining him for 2 years there. We're going to miss Hannah again because all her friends get along very well with her :) Hannah's Mum said that she will be back to join art class during their holiday seasons. "Hannah, have a nice trip and we will see you soon again! Bon Voyage!"

Kaiyao's picture on the Magazine!

"Teacher Esther! I wana show you something!" Kaiyao exclaimed with my attention. He took out a magazine from his bag and flipped to the page and point at a picture! "Ohh... that's the picture you drew! Wow, well done!" I took a picture of him and his masterpiece printed on the magazine in no time! No wonder he's so happy today! :D And I'm happy for him too :)