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ABA Workshop
SPICES conducted a four day workshop on ABA in April 2012. There were 15 participants ; 10 parents 3 teachers and 2 volunteers.
During the four day workshop (7th, 14th, 21st and 28th), participants learned how to manage their children’s behaviours and how to assess the functions of behaviours. They did small group discussions, planning and role play. They also learned how to do a task analysis for some daily routines.
Sessions were interactive and relaxed. Most of the participants stayed back after lunch to get to know each other better. They also had many questions to ask the trainers. We were reminded to press on with our children and “Never, never, never give up!” -Winston Churchill-
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How to Make Play Dough
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 ½ cups of water
- ½ pkt of fine salt
- 30gm of cream of tartar
- 2 table spoon cooking oil
- food colouring
1. Mix all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl with a hand whisk.
2. Make a well in the middle and slowly add water and mix well with hand whisk.
3. Add the cooking oil and food colouring and mix well.
4. Cook the batter in a pot or wok at a very low temperature, stirring all the time.
5. As the batter cooks it will harden to become a dough.The colour will change. 
6. Remove the dough from pot and knead while dough is hot for about 5 minutes.
7. Cover the dough with a cloth to cool before storing in a tight container.
8. Do not refrigerate dough.
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Mini Aquarium Adventure
Yet another idea to share for Art & Craft activities. Try our 3D Mini Aquarium Adventure. Just follow the guide below to complete this masterpiece.
Materials needed:
Tempera paste (blue/green, purple, red, yellow etc.), paint brush, 1 whole paper plate, 1 pre-cut paper plate, transparent sheet(s), pre-drawn fishes, stapler, silvery strings (optional) and glue (cellophone tape).
STEP 1: Paint the whole paper plate with either blue and green. Then, paint the pre-cut paper plate with some other colours. Leave it to dry.
STEP 2: An adult then paste the transparent sheet over the pre-cut paper plate.
STEP 3: Colour the fishes with crayons before pasting in onto the blue / green whole paper plate. Then, put in the silvery string (optional) to create an artificial moving waves.
STEP 4: Arrange both the whole and pre-cut paper plates together and staple around the edges to hold it together. You may add a rope etc. on the top of the mini aquarium to hang for wall decoration.
Finally, it will look something like this. Try it!
