Brought a couple of extra sets of colour pencils that Pastor Vic gave me from Treasure Hunt for Alina to pass to the rest. But for my own cell of course, SPECIAL PRIVILEGES. Took my box of materials and fished out some other stuff from my other boxes and threw them in as well. Oh yes, newspaper as well of course.
On the way down to church, carrying the box was a nightmare. Maybe it was the lack of sleep or the weather was exceptionally hot or whatever the reason it seemed extra heavy. Tired, hot and sweating; church never seemed further from the bus stop. Quickly made my way to draw the keys for the urban room to return the throw rugs I brought back to hall to wash 120914019750198 weeks ago. Bumped into pastor Charissa who seemed pretty shocked at my flustered and sweaty state lol. After that went up to room 3 at 40A dumped all my stuff and headed down to NTUC. I needed to get something extra, alphabet pasta. It would come in really handy with the glow-in-the-dark paint.
For cell today only Matthew, Cedric, Melissa and Celine were around. Took out some of the materials for them to start with, coloured paper, colour pencils, pens etc... Then took out my remaining sea shells, the more "interesting" stuff to excite them and let them try more than just colouring paper. At first they just stuck to the shells and paper, then Matthew rummaged through the box. He was pretty startled then started naming the different materials he saw, glass beads, wooden hearts, etc. Soon everyone was shouting and fighting over who got what, heh.
Matthew started with a small rectangle card the size of your typical name cards, then he pasted 4 glass beads on the corners. When he found the glow-in-the-dark paint he asked me how to use it cause he wanted to make the borders glow. I suggested cutting paper and spraying them then gluing back on to his card so he wouldn't accidentally spray on to the other parts of the card. He said he wanted to try spraying the whole thing and so he did. At first it made me frown, now his whole card was covered and the "Happy Mother's Day" he wrote couldn't be seen. Then he did something really cool. He went over the words with the gold marker again. As the paint was still wet, when he went over the words he removed the paint . End result? The words were in gold and surrounded by a thin layer of yellowish-green glow in the dark paint that looked like frosted glass against it's black background. When you turned off the lights, the whole card would be glowing and you could still see the words "Happy Mother's Day" since it was the only portion not glowing. Unfortunatedly he kept running between the table and the corner for spraying so I couldn't get a proper picture of it =/
Cedric wanted to stick shells into a heart and complained the paper was too flimsy. No fear, we got mounting board ;) Helped him super glue the shells to the mounting board while he looked for other materials. He wanted to put a wooden heart in the centre of the heart formed by the shells and he wanted it to be red. I only brought my glow-in-the-dark paint though, didn't bring the rest of my spray paints. But we had red paper so we just stuck it on the heart to make it red. He continued searching and then exclaimed I WANT TO USE THIS! He held the packet of alphabet pasta high in the sky in victorious fashion, like a member of the Malaysian Special Branch holding Mas Selamat. At this point of time Melissa was waiting for her wooden heart to dry and so Cedric roped her in to help him find the alphabets to form "Happy Mother's Day". While helping him spray the letters he decided to add a yellow box at the bottom right hand corner and wrote "Just for you <3 Cedric". So sweet right?
Celine's card was simpler than the rest but still very nice. At first she was quite sad that the words she had written were off center. But it turned out to be a good thing because it created a nice spot for her to paste her red hearts. Then she drew in a flower and coloured it purple =)
Through it all Melissa was just working rather quietly on her card (or perhaps I was too caught up with Matthew and Cedric's screams for this and that). But when I saw it, wow! I think it was really cool, and she used like a whole range of materials; glass beads, ice cream sticks, tiles, necklace beads. She even drew on the tiles. But unfortuatedly, I didn't notice she drew on them until I was looking at the photo on my laptop. The problem is the ink looks solid and dried, but it itsn't. It can't stick on the surface of the tile and will get wiped away. It would have needed to be covered with a layer of scotch tape or varnish to prevent it from being wiped away. What she drew on the top right tile was pretty intricate too, pity =/. Oh and the small heart on the right of the text was painted with glow-in-the-dark. So after her mum reads the card if she turns off the light there'll be a nice little gowing heart =).
So proud of what all of them did!
At service Pastor Jennifer was talking about Mother's Day and how her mum has pretty much everything so this year she has decided she will make a card for her mother and that craft work is a real challange for her. Later I thought to myself hmm she said will make, meaning she hasn't done it yet. So I decided after service I'll pass her my materials so she could use anything she found handy.
Materials are like vocabulary, the more you have the more you can express...
Sometimes materials are even what spark off ideas when you think of what you can do with what you have. She was happy that I offered my materials and said she was thinking that she would have to go and buy stuff and wasn't sure what to get either. Well hopefully what I have comes in handy and maybe she'll get some ideas while exploring what's in the box!
But before coming to church it was really quite a struggle. I was tired and after gathering all I wanted into the box it was pretty heavy. Part of me wondered if I was thinking too much, what if they just took the paper and colour pencils and did a "shui bian 5 min card"? (we did cards for each other for an icebreaker once and it didn't go down too well) Wondered if it was worth bringing so much stuff. In the end I had to tell myself
No, I believe in them, it'll be worth it, they are worth it....
As things played out today I'm really glad I brought everything. I'm sure they had a great time and I'm really proud of what they did. I'm sure their mums will be very blessed as well! And if Pastor Jenn finds the materials handy it will be an additional bonus =)
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