Scrapbooks: All About Memory Albums

I enjoy making colleges and scrapbooks because I can jot down notes about photos, attach any accompanying memorabilia and finally, embellish it with colourful materials.

For the next few months, I plan to make a few scrapbooks and get my children involved in the creation of their own memory albums.

Last weekend, I hunted high and low for a beginner's guide to scrapbooking at the library. Leaving the kids to hunt for their books, I browsed through the aisles and found the perfect guide book:

All About Memory Albums

Colour by Numbers

Do your children like colouring? Mine don't!
I have seen many children patiently colouring pages and pages of colouring books but almost none of the 4-5 colouring books that I've bought ever get used. They would scribble a bit and then stop.

I decided to Google up some colouring pages and found the solution - colour by numbers :D

Since my children love logical or process-oriented activities i.e. building blocks, creating patterns, drawing, jigsaw puzzles and the like so I figured that they'd find more meaning in the colouring process if there was a pattern to it.

REVIEW: The Meerkat Wars by H.S. Toschack

Books with African themes are not easy to come by. For instance, I'm still trying to get hold of "Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai" and Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa.

Thus, I was happy to be given a review copy of The Meerkat Wars by HS Toschack, which has the following blurb:

"It's all very well helping a young meerkat who's been poisoned by a scorpion... ...but when you've made friends with the whole Duwara tribe of meerkats, and you discover that they're at war with the Utongo (another tribe), you may find yourself involved in that too, even if you're only a little black-and-white cat.

And when you realise that the two tribes are fighting because each one believes it lives under The One True Sun, then you may have to undertake a very dangerous journey to help them see things differently. You may have to go through the Gorge..."