Ohai everyone.

Here’s every parents’ dilemma: How to entertain your kids at home?

Normally I’d bring them for a swim, or fill up their inflatable pool and let them splash around in the evening.  Or take them out for a walk or to the playground.

With the haze so bad these days, I don’t dare to take the kids out of the house anymore. T_____T

You guys very bored hor?

I don’t like them watching too much TV, or playing with gadgets unless it’s absolutely necessary (like I need some space to eat a meal).  Even now, Penny is always trying to grab my phone. -_- Fighter don’t need to say. We read of course (and Penny tries to eat the books), and sometimes I break out the Playdoh.   But Penny wants to eat it again wtf and Fighter is not very interested; he’ll just squish them a bit but I don’t think he’s at the developmental stage where he knows how to fashion things out of dough yet.   So these lazy hazy days, this has been the saviour of my sanity.  It’s a gadget but the right kind!

I never really had much use for a printer at home before.  If I wanted something printed, I’d just go borrow the machine at Fatty’s office hahaha.  Now only I realize the advantage of having a personal printer.

Here are three things I accomplished with my HP Printer.

Print out activities for children!  

If you prefer using your phone, there is a HP Printables App!  You can download it on the Apple Store or Google Play Store. The printer I’m using is the HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 3635 which has a wireless function.  Basically you can connect it to the same WiFi as your phone and print from the app. Fighter very kan cheong about his activity papers hahahaha.  He was very fascinated with the printer! I guess that can be an activity by itself.

We went through different printables on the app and he chose for himself.

Printing in progress! Coloring in progress! I’ve never seen him so excited about coloring before to be honest.  I think it was the whole process of having the freedom to pick what he wanted to color, and having it print before his own eyes. Masterpiece wtf. Ok ok Fighter still has some way to go. Printed out a second sheet for the day – a Disney one.  Besides coloring, the HP Printables App has other printable activities too – 3D origami, spot the difference and memory card games. Go wild yo! Fighter preferred coloring though, maybe still doesn’t grasp the concept of the others yet. Guess what this is?

Print out homemade flash cards!

Fighter actually really likes them. (maybe cos he’s quite good so he very proud to show off his knowledge hahahaha) I have numbers and letter flash cards already so I printed out a natural elements themed one instead.  Also cos the illustrations damn cute la hahaha. After painstakingly cutting them up.  To make the cards last longer, you could print them on thicker paper or cardboard.

I printed on normal A4 paper but I’m planning to laminate them. 🙂

Print out pictures for walls!

Went off the HP app a little bit and found these illustrations.  Printed them out and put them in frames.  These will look so cute on the nursery wall. 🙂

As you can see, it’s actually possible to entertain kids indoors without resorting to electronic gadgets, and without spending too much.

Wanna take up the #10daychallenge?

The #10dayschallenge is a challenge to spend time with your children without having to resort to your smartphones and tablets and engage them with the HP Printables for 10 consecutive days.
I challenge you to spend some quality time using the HP Printables with your kids, take a picture of them playing and upload it on to the HP Malaysia Facebook page with #10dayschallenge to win free entry to the Kids Day Out event.

20 pairs of tickets will be given out to the best entries to enjoy “The Good Dinosaur” movie at GSC Signatures, The Gardens during the Kids Day Out event on 28th November 2015.

Contest starts from 5th-19th November and winner will be announced on the 12th and 19th November on the HP Malaysia Facebook Page.

Good luck!