I want to paint a LRT train...

Kai went to help out in a MEG testing yesterday, and after all these testing in the Laboratory like the last one that he went to help out in a English Language Requisition Test Experiment I have learnt not to give him too much things to do during our homeschooling hours and let him enjoyed his play or even doing crafts. And to read to him and do the other stuff when he asked for them.

He requested that he wanted to paint so I got him the paper and paint and allowed him the freedom to decide what he want to do. Well, he told me that he was going to draw the Singapore LRT System at Sengkang and painted it using his own imagination.


Here's his drawing and painting, this is the first time he is working with painting without supervision and the last time we have done it was painting the wings to make a butterfly. (Click on the picture to enlarge it.)

Let's draw a bus at the terminal...

Kai is a automobile vehicle freak, he loves to draw trains, cars, trucks, buses and aeroplanes. He will be really happy watching any mobile vehicle documentary.

He used to watch "Mighty Trains" documentaries and would request us to bring him to the train museum or train exhibitions when we were in Vancouver. And for his love in trains, we have been invited to some train collectors' club. He was so small then but he would ask the exhibitors lots of questions about their miniature train on display. He would be interested to look at the pistol, etc and many more parts of the train that Mummy here also has no ideas what they are or look like.

He was so fascinated by them that he could learnt everything about them from the engines to the pistol and he could even tell me that trains could run on steam, coal and other fuels. And every trip that we took, he would request to go to look at trains at stations.

And during our stay in Japan, he loved the different train rides - JR trains, Kintetsu Trains and even the Shinkansen. He was enjoyed taking their different buses.

It did not came as a surprise to me as we started our Art and Craft lesson - sketching with pencil that he has requested to draw all the different types of automobile vehicles. Papers are easily accessible to Kai when he feels like drawing.

So we started sketching a bus at the terminal, take a look at my drawing and look at Kai's as well.






Click to see Kai's sketch

What do you think about Kai's sketch? I was asking him what he has observed at a bus terminal back in Vancouver, Japan and Singapore.

Learning to draw...

Kai loves Art & Craft from very young. And in the past, we have been using shapes cut out to work on crafts as well as recycle toilet-roll core and egg carton boxes.

Kai has been creating his own drawing and painting and today, I have finally decided to teach Kai how to draw by using a pencil. Our little artist decided that he want to draw land transports and he told me exactly what he wanted before we start.

So here's Mummy's drawing by teaching him step by step and the rest, he did it on his own.

The train approaching a station in Sydney, and car and bus on the road.

Take a look at Kai's Drawings

Kai's drawing train at a station and outside the train station.

Kai was trying to draw a train coming through a curve and it is an incomplete picture that he would continue.