Heidi's Arty Party!

This year, we held Heidi's 4th birthday celebration at Twinkle Art @ Pioneer.

Teacher Irene, the co-owner of this art studio and who was also the supervisor of The Enrichment Classroom (where Heidi had attended nursery classes for 2 years) highly recommended the pottery session party to us when Daddy and I went down to the studio to take take a look see. I was deciding between canvas art and pottery art but chose the latter when Teacher Irene assured us that our little guests will have lots of clay fun. She also proposed that the kids make a personalized name plate for themselves during the pottery session and that she would also arrange for a glazing/painting session for our guests for their clay art pieces 1-2 weeks later. That sounded very fun to me already. :)

After several weeks of coordination with the Teacher Irene, we were all ready for our gal's celebration today.

Before the party starts and arrival of our guests, Heidi doodled and drew a fish on the big whiteboard.

A birthday gift for Heidi from Teacher Irene!

Our guests arrived shortly.

Melanie was very sweet to string up a colourful bead necklace and bracelet for our birthday girl and even put it on for her.

When most of our little guests have arrived, we started the pottery session a little earlier than the time stated as we did not want to keep them waiting for long. (Teacher Siti was a little late with her gal but managed to join in and keep up with us).

We cut out the shape of the plate after deciding on a heart shape for Heidi. After cutting, rolling, coiling, moulding, pressing, the name plate started to form and take shape.

Our little guests and parents hard at work.

Almost done....and done!

After our clay pieces were moulded, they would need to get fired in a kiln and this process would take up to 24 hours. We will be back again 2 weeks later to paint our clay pieces. :)

The kids doodling on big pieces of paper while having some refreshments.

Next came the cake cutting!

Heidi had been going on and on over her "elmo cake" for the past few weeks when she knew she would be having an Elmo theme for her birthday party and we could see how elated she was when she finally saw her birthday cake. I had picked up the cake the night before and was careful to keep it out of her sight as I had wanted this to be a surprise for her.

(some pics were kindly taken by Venice's daddy).

The party went and ended well and I was rather relieved when the party's over. I was quite stressed up over whether the kids would enjoy the pottery session and also when the birthday cake went out of my budget. However, my worries were unfounded I guess. I could see our guests had a lot of fun at the pottery session and the birthday cake was a hit with the kids. Best of all, we could see and feel the joy with Heidi on her special day and she enjoyed the pottery session with her friends very much too.

Thanks to all our guests for the angpaos and lovely gifts. And special thanks to Teacher Irene for her excellent coordination in organising this party for our princess. We really appreciate all that you have done from the invitation cards, balloon decorations, personal engraving on the clay art pieces, special arrangement for a painting session and many more. Thanks again. :)

Canvas art party next year, Daddy? :D