Fun With Kids: School holiday workshops; art exhibition by P4 pupils
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Your kids can learn science concepts such as heat and life cycle while building an incubator and hatching quail eggs.
PHOTO: HOUSE OF HOWS EDUCATION
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SINGAPORE – Make family time all the more special with these ideas and activities.
Science workshops
Build an incubator and hatch a quail egg in a school holiday workshop by House of Hows education centre. Your kids will pick up science concepts about heat, electricity and life cycle in the process.
In another class, they can find out how vision works as they dissect and explore the anatomy of eyeballs from goats or pigs.
A food science workshop about bubble tea will help your children understand what density is when they make tapioca pearls for the beverage. In another workshop on baking, they will make cupcakes that glow in the dark with a secret ingredient and learn about chemical reactions.
The centre’s founder, Ms Laura Oh, wants to broaden children’s perspectives on education and make learning more engaging.
“The classroom is not limited to four walls. Any space, even a kitchen, can be a place for learning,” she says. “Incorporating these elements adds a fun, interactive dimension to lessons, making the process more exciting and memorable for students.”
The workshop series is designed for students from primary to secondary levels. Parents are welcome to join in.
Classes run on selected dates from Nov 29 to Dec 16 at House of Hows (01-173, Block 214 Bedok North Street 1). Fees are from $85 to $129, with 10 per cent off when you attend all four workshops. Sign up at str.sg/ddHs
Art exhibition by Primary 4 pupils
View artworks by Primary 4 pupils from six schools at the Worlds Around You exhibition.
PHOTO: SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM
View 19 artworks by Primary 4 pupils – from watercolour paintings to ceramics – at Singapore Art Museum (SAM) at Tanjong Pagar Distripark.
Themed Worlds Around You, the exhibition is the 12th edition of SAM’s Think! Contemporary programme, which advocates learning through art.
The pupils are from six schools: CHIJ Our Lady Queen of Peace, Geylang Methodist School (Primary), Haig Girls’ School, Mayflower Primary School, St Anthony’s Primary School and Xinghua Primary School.
Watercolour paintings Makan Together!, by Mayflower Primary School pupils, capture hawker culture.
PHOTO: SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM
Ceramics installation Small Dreams In Tight Spaces, by pupils from CHIJ Our Lady Queen of Peace, is inspired by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s work The Cubic Structural Evolution Project (2004).
PHOTO: SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM
Mayflower Primary School pupils, for instance, have captured the hawker culture in a series of watercolour paintings, Makan Together!. Depicting scenes of families and friends bonding over meals, their artworks are in response to local photographer Nguan’s Untitled series, which looks at the loneliness of urban life.
Meanwhile, pupils from CHIJ Our Lady Queen of Peace came up with Small Dreams In Tight Spaces. Their ceramics installation is inspired by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s work The Cubic Structural Evolution Project (2004).
Launched on Nov 2, the exhibition opens daily from 10am to 7pm until Jan 1. Admission is free. Find out more at str.sg/i8mc
