Book Week

Xi's school had a book week on the last week of April when the children were learning about books, how to take care of them, making book marks and even their own little booklets. The book week ended with a Book Parade on 30 April 2010, whereby the children are encouraged to go to school on that day, dressed in their favourite story book character and brought in the book as well. The school encouraged that the costumes be made with recyclable or readily available items found at home and work and avoid buying anything as creativity is the name of the game. The purpose was to encourage the children to save the environment by reducing, reusing and recycling. Getting creative and spending nothing will also instil in the children a strong and profound positive attitude to money where they learn to save and be discerning to buy what is truly and really necessary.

I was having a hard time thinking of what character to dress for Xi. What made it worst was I was extremely busy with my work that few weeks which ended up that I picked up the kids late every evening and reached home late and no time and energy to "create" a costume for her. Even up to the evening before the book parade, I was still scratching my head on the costume. Thank god I have my forever reliable and supportive aunty and the family! She brought out some nice recyclable paper and we thought of maybe can sew the paper to Xi's clothes! So she helped me to sew the paper to one of Xi's legging to make it a dress, and my cousin helped her to make a hat out from some cardboard. I also stitched a bracelet to her t-shirt and a necklace to her paper dress to create the sparkling effect. Carrying a small bag with a pair of wings on her shoulder and a Xmas wand, Xi was transformed to a little fairy.