Charity Bazaar at The Japanese Association

On Saturday, 21 Nov, Mom brought Ben and I to the Charity Bazaar at The Japanese Association. We got to eat sushi and played race cars with Tamiya. Ben wanted to learn Origami and I wanted to know how to play Japanese Chess. An uncle showed me the strategies to play and win, it was very fun. Japanese Chess is very easy to play. I then played with Ben and also Mom and I won 3 times!

Mom then signed us up for Batik Painting. First I got to select a picture to paint. Mom said the picture is printed on a silk fabric, so I have to be very careful handling it. The picture was stretched and stapled onto a wooden frame.

I had to use a special tool to outline the picture with hot melted wax. It was so difficult so Mom helped me.

Next I painted in colors on my picture. At one point, I made a dab of wrong color and Mom showed me how to spread that out so it is no longer a mistake but part of the painting. Also the lolli helped.

After that I had to blow dry my painting.

Then a lady brushed a layer of hot wax over it. I asked, 'Why are you putting wax again?" but she could not understand me. I think she did not speak English. Mom said that she thinks the action will 'fix' the color onto the silk to make it permanent. Mom said we could find out more from the library or the internet.

Then another lady took my painting and slipped inbetween pages of newspapers and ironed over it. She said the heat will help the papers to absorb off the wax. Oh I get it! The wax will melt from the heat of the iron. The wax will melt onto the paper so that way, my painting will be just on silk with no wax!

Finally, another lady helped me fold my painting into a rectangle photo frame. She used a lot of tape.

Ta da! Here is my painting of the Merlion!

Oscar and Noah was also there ... but they came when we were about to leave. So Mom let us play another round of Japanese traditional games in the room upstairs.

After that, we took the shuttle to Orchard Road and then I got to play with my DS Lite on the way home!