Once Upon a time .....

Just For Fun Kids' Workshop was formed by KL Bread of Life Centre, a church in Kota Damansara for their Visionary Bible School (VBS) Camp for Sunday School Children December 2004. It was headed by a committee of talented youths and the young-at-hearts Sunday School Teachers. It was a 3 day camp program where all the kids and those who consider themselves kids have fun and forget about their age. Drama, singing, hip-hop dancing, playing with dough, batik art, pop-corns and movies, story telling, quizzes, fun games and activities... Lots and lots and lots of fun going on. Let those pictures take you through the fun...

During one of our hip hop performance by the Sunday School Teachers and the kids... Wow, you can never imagine how those 40+ year old Sunday School Teachers can have such energy...

Sunday School Teachers having fun
with kids at Mega Kids, Mid Valley.
It is also a chance for us teachers
to be little kids again...

Kudos to all great wonderful teachers!

Errrrr..... I wonder whoever said that learning art is boring ? Hmmm.... I don't think so...

Home-based art workshop

It was after the VBS 2004 then, the idea of adopting it to a home-based art business was planned and designed. The main objective is to help women (especially full time mothers and single mothers) to gain financial independence, while they are at home caring for their little ones.






Pastor Elisha and myself explaining the home-based art workshop during one of the meetings.



As a trial run, the business kicked-off on January 2006 with just 3 students at Bandar Kinrara. Now it has more than 20 students with the first 3 pioneers still faithfully following me (at Bandar Kinrara centre).

Now, we are on a lookout for mothers and housewives, who wishes to take up the challenge the way I did and share my success story. Good and stable income, low capital and low maintenance. Qualification : must be able to handle kids from age 3 to 14 years, must be willing to attend 46 hour training sessions, experience not necessary. Those that wishes to know more, please contact Pauline at 010-2002280.

How Does Being Creative Help in Character Building ...

BEING APPRECIATIVE
students that are being taught on how to appreciate art, naturally grows up to be appreciative.

SELF BELIEF
CREATIVITY starts from a BELIEF, SUCCESS comes from an ACTION.

SELF DETERMINATION
students are encourage to finish their artwork within a time frame. all their masterpiece done by their own effort (with our guidance). there will be stopwatch to train the students on time management.

PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS
at each new subject, the teacher in charge would discuss by throwing lots of questions (what, where, when, how and why) to the floor. the students will then discuss and we explore together the ways of looking for solutions in many different perspective.

TEAM BUILDING AND COOPERATION
during this brainstorming session, students are encourage to speak out and share their ideas among the peers. they will then discuss among themselves and plan the layout of their artwork. there will be strictly no copying of ideas.

COMPOSITIONING SKILLS
from planning, the students are to encourage to input ideas to compose a reasonable scenario. each individual students will then arrive at their own composition of artwork.  this method has proven to help many school going children in story writing or compositions.

ORGANIZING SKILLS
now planning and organizing to put ideas into drawing, as to where to start, which picture should come first and then second.

MORAL VALUES
their discipline and behaviour are our main concern.

COMPETITIVE SPIRIT
among the peers, we cultivate the spirit of competition and encourage them to vouch for it.

SELF MOTIVATION / GROUP MOTIVATION
students will be condition to instill motivation by first doing it in a group, then slowly develop the skill of self motivation.

SELF ESTEEM
self esteem comes naturally when they complete their artwork and being appreciated and praised.

A little more about art ...

Just exactly what our name suggest, our activities and syllabus are carefully and creatively designed to incorporate fun into learning and exploring. It is planned to include story-telling (in English), experiments, poem reading, craftwork, canvas painting and sometimes games.
















Classes are conducted in a stress-free manner : in a clean home environment and in small groups (not more than 8 students per class). By holding classes into small groups, we are able to encourage children's participation when it comes to brain-storming. Our syllabus also encourages children to hold discussions among themselves (within the same topic) and thus building their interpersonal skills even among shy kids. The result, I am often amazed at how they can compose a picture from just a simple assignment.

















Nurul Hani, 6 and Michelle Chiam, 6 found each other here and became best buddies. Displayed here are their fashion creations.

Lee Kar Men, 8 in deep concentration...

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At a young tender age, kids are a natural lateral thinker. How do you know this? They are able to let their imagination soar far and tell you creative stories. They are able to come up with good excuses as to why they have never done their homework and often get away with it pretty well. They are able to tell you that they see monster under their bed just to get their way to sleep in their parents' cozy bed.

As they grow up, they are conditioned (unknowingly) by adults to think logically, thus suppressing their creativeness. Art is the best way to stimulate young brain activities and naturally gears them towards the process of developing lateral thinking. It teaches them to think out of the box or expand their horizons to think creatively in many areas of practical lives, such as idea formulation, concept development and creative problem solving. A good example, a lateral thinker solves problem better, they see problems as opportunities and are able to find alternative solutions. They love challenges and are confident about meeting challenges head on.

Art, drama, languages are some ways kids can adopt lateral thinking into their process of growing up. Furthermore, needless to say that kids learn faster when they are experiencing fun in our class. In fact, they are keen to attend classes every week.

Ezekiel Ling, 9
and Gan Hui Lin, 6

Our Pride ...

Over here, children working to achieve perfection at their own pace... Nobody gets left behind and nobody is better than the other. Each child is special in their own ways. This way they learn to accept themselves for who they are. With acceptance, they develop self-confidence and take pride in what they excel in...

... daniel tan working on his masterpiece, a day at the racing track.

from left to right :Gan Ming Hui 9
Darren Tan 9Daniel Tan 11
showing off their masterpieces :
"the moor" on canvas

Eunice Ling, 7
with her sequined owl
masquerade mask

Sabrina Wong, 11
......handpainted coin-box

... poster "Malaysiaku gemilang" by chong ying ting, 14

... poster "Hidup Sihat Tanpa Dadah" by lee yu zhe, 10

... motifs by a pet lover, ming jyeh, 14

Sharif Lew(9)'s newly designed sports car

What unique syllabus we have...

In our class, we give out techniques according to the student's capabiility and level. We guide them a few times until they are used to the techniques, then we encourage them to give out suggestion to make their artwork more creative.

Take a look at some of our unique sample and syllabus. The class syllabus are designed by Teacher Pauline Tan, a graduate from Malaysian Institute of Art (MIA) year 1990.

a training for young hands
at doing curve lines
and color blending...
art by the baby of the class Alia Lew, 4

... shy Baby Alia












beginning to draw

Gan Hui Lin, 6

within 3 months Hui Lin, 6 is able to draw dragon-flies with background on her own.

the basic of human figure drawing

... shanghai woman portraits

Fun activities

What do we do beside drawing, coloring, painting and stuff... ?


... we had fun making sushi

Sushi Adventure by a sushi chef from Japan, Chef Tokuda. He taught us step by step on how to make creative and delicious sushi. California Handroll, Cucumber Roll Sushi & Sushi (Salmon,Tuna,Squid,Prawn,Sea Eel). All kids had some fun trying out making sushi and get to take home their sushi creations too.



...students having fun time waiting for their bento meal by Grand Bluewave Hotel, Shah Alam.

a great sumptious bento...

enjoying their bento set

















so let the fun begins...

Darren Tan's all 10 fingers on the sushi...

...not sure if we are doing it
the right way or not...

Michelle Chang & Xin Yee

third prize winner, Ryan Kwan beaming
away. With him Chef Tokuda...

...second prize winner

best sushi creation goes to little Wei Qian...

... we had fun time at art workshop, Balai Seni Shah Alam


boarding the bus, on our way for the trip...

quiz time while waiting for the bengkel seni lukis to be ready...

..."who knows how old is Teacher Pauline, lift up your right leg"??? tsk, tsk, tsk... what a question imposed during the quiz.

ooo... can't wait to begin our art exhibition tour and the bengkel...

...browsing through the art gallery. artworks done by talented children from age 3 to 10 years.

the Bengkel Seni Art Instructor, En Zaim Darulaman
gave some tips on creating a masterpiece...

some made new friends here by sharing colors...

...some on serious mode to win the mini competition...

...whereas the boys seems oblivious to the surrounding. you do yours and I do mine...










... we do crafts

Ang Hao Ning, 5 enjoys his craft a lot












pasta art and animal kingdom fridge magnets















... we do canvas painting


before and after










Daniel Chiam, 8, doing his canvas with deep concentration

step-by-step guidance
from left to right :
Michelle, Daniel, Tse King, Teacher Pauline, Jia Ying and Kar Men

... we do papier mache

Teacher Karen from My Masterpiece Art Centre, Equine Park came to rescue the big class. Grandma Ann (in red) helped out too.

... we go for excursion

exploring at the Lost City
from left to right :
Tse King, Ray Chi, Kar Men, Jia Ying,
Pei Ying, Sabrina Loo

all the children listening attentively on 101 course : how to wrap a mummy

all of us became a qualified "Indiana Jones" after a series of trekking through the lost city trying to find our way back to KL





... we exercise, jog and we dance too

Grandma Ann teaching all of us the John Travolta's famed dance "Staying Alive"

For more information about the registration, class schedule, or interested to find out more about opportunities in earning a second income, please write to :

Teacher Pauline at 
fun.kidsworkshop@yahoo.com
or call 010-2002280  or  018-2041752