Happy Chinese New Year!
This was 2 days before the actual Chinese NewYear date, the sub-committee actually brought forward this event to celebrate with the residents at Bishan Home!
Volunteers came mostly in RED outfit, in tie with our CNY theme of this week.
The planning of this event took about 2 weeks, with special thanks to Kaixin, Ayden, Harold, Russell, Guocong, Wynne, Jiamin and Kelly for this, as well as Weiting and Zi En for helping to play as villagers for the skit!
Arts and crafts included calligraphy, decorative firecracker making, and colouring!
Residents learn to write the word “春” and decorate it with a colouring of thedragon pasted on the other side, as well as a decorative firecracker attachedto the bottom.
Games included pass the parcel, poison ball(suggested by Xiaofang for the previous outing), throwing rings into cones toearn candies, stack the oranges, fishing and hopscotch!
Pass the parcel game: Featuring a very cute lion dance costume made by Kaixin! The forfeit of the game is to dance around in the costume.
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Poison ball: Residents and volunteers have to stand within the marked boundaries and balls will be rolled across that zone. They will have to run to avoid being hit by the fast moving balls.
Residents are to throw rings into cones in order to win candies.
Stack the orange: Residents are to stack oranges and to compete for the fastest orange-stacker title.
Fishing for numbers
We ended the visit with a skit (written by Guo Cong), the story of Nian, and hongbao giving session by Cai-shen-ye, the God ofWealth, played by Harold! Residents received a red packet each, and were quick to discover a chocolate coin inside!
This is definitely one of the most enjoyable visit, with residents wishing us “gong xi gong xi” and singing the good old CNY songs.
Here, we thank all of you volunteers for helping to make this visit a success. If you had not make it for this CNY visit,we still hope to see you soon!. Do drop by, and see ya! 