CreaTee Blog

One of the things that we look forward to at CreaTee is our yearly free workshops. We kick started CreaTee with a workshop at a PPR Flat in exchange for batik that was used in our kit which was supplied by another social enterprise, The Batik Boutique. Last year we conducted workshops with refugee children and learned more about their situation here in Malaysia. Now coming to our third year we still have the same excitement conducting these workshops. On 31 July 2018, we held our t-shirt designing workshop at Sekolah Sungai Melut in Dengkil, Selangor. There is the saying...

    TELL A STORY Start with simple crayons, color pencils, and paper, Get the children to draw anything; whatever they like and comes to their mind. “ What would you like to draw? “  Ask them related questions and get them to tell you the story and right it at the bottom of the paper; in their words. Follow up with the next story and paper You can clip and bind the pages together GET COSY WITH A BOOK Get a book and read to each other. You can even get them to read to you too. GET COOKING...

The Temuan people (Temuan: Uwang/Eang Temuan, Malaysian: Orang Temuan) are a Proto-Malay ethnic group indigenous to western parts of Peninsular Malaysia. In the states of Selangor, Pahang, Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Malacca. They do live in the most utmost disadvantageous economic situation. The Temuan Culture reflects their belief in nature’s power and spirit. Their animistic faith takes the form of taboos, herbal remedies, ritual ceremonies, and magic. They have dukun (healers) and village bomoh (shaman) who when in trance state, communicates with the nature spirits. They celebrate Aik  Muyang or the Ancestor’s Day Although today the Temuans mostly adhere to their...

SAVE THE DATE! 10 JULY 2018. Our annual workshop is here. With last year's proceeds and sponsorships from our partner, Grow Inc, we are conducting t-shirt designing workshop with 70 Orang Asli children of Sungai Melut. Come and volunteer with us. Not only you get to put a smile on a child's face but you will have fun too. Volunteers will be interacting and helping the children in the process of designing their t-shirt. No arts skills required. As long as you love being around children and make them happy. Sungai Melut school caters to Orang Asli community. We came...

We have always been a fan of Naiise after stumbling onto their website couple of years ago. We approached Naiise to see if their online store would be interested in carrying CreaTee and we found out that they were opening a Kuala Lumpur branch. Timing is everything sometimes!  So now you can find CreaTee and other wonderful amazing stuff at Naiise, Kuala Lumpur. If you love anything and everything art, this is a place to check out. Most of the product comes from local businesses as well, so what great way to support artist in the region. There are perfumes, jewellery,...