Mangalore, January 24: “Guthumane”, the homestead-like set up which houses various handicrafts at the Pilikula complex, was bustling with activity on Monday.
A large number of children (more than 1,000 according to one of the organisers) participated in 13 creative activities as part of “Bal Bharat Srujanotsav”, the national-level festival, which began on Sunday.
The children drew on sand, cut foam, pasted paper, and shaped clay. The activities included a creative art workshop, drawing and cartooning, collages, clay modelling, sand art, thermo foam masks, “goodu deepa” building, metal embossing, origami, and magic.
In the collage section, the children had made pictures with bits of coloured waste paper. The collages were displayed on a board and they were of landscapes, coconut trees, ducks, crows, and clowns.
In the origami (the art of folding paper into various shapes) section, the children had created swans and butterflies out of paper. In another section, children had made colourful goodu deepas (hanging lanterns) . In the clay modelling section, there was a variety of subjects that the children had covered. These included a dog, musical instruments, Shiva, and Ganesha.
In the sand art section, Premjith of Vamanjoor said he had made a fish on sand in 10 minutes. Palmeira from Sagar said that it was easy to make the mask. John Chandran, who was coordinating the cartoon section, said that 25 children had participated in the cartoon-drawing activity. Many children at the activity centre were holding bits of papers with artworks on them that they had created through “instant dip art”.
One student explained that oil paints are spilled into water and then the students place the rectangular papers on the water surface. Thus they created unique artworks on each bit of paper.
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