KIDS’ ART ACTIVITY ON APRIL 11& APRIL 25, 2015


BABY ELEPHANT

 
This is a baby warli elephant playing with a ball. This art is just a trial to create an image of the basic shape of an elephant’s anatomy among kids. Moreover kids love colors as well as fond of playing with ball. So I felt kids will be able to easily relate themselves in this art   & will love to fill colors in the baby elephant. The intent behind the idea of this art was to engage kids in an imaginative, colorful & fun filled session.



PASSIONATE KIDS

 
The session of “baby elephant” continued two Saturdays. All the kids filled colors in the baby elephant with lot of interest. During this session some talented kids arrived to attend the activity. They were filling colors very steadily, without putting it out of line. They did the coloring with lot of patience & care.

I am very glad to feel that two kids visited VALA particularly to attend the kids’ art activity .Both the kids attended the first session .Then they liked the art activity so much that they again attended the baby elephant session.

One of the two kids framed the art done by her in the first session. First day the kid was very shy to fill colors. But on her second session, she did the coloring with much more enthusiasm & freedom.

The other kid’s energy & passion to do the coloring was same in both the sessions. During her second session, she tried to do something different i.e. she filled colors in the ball as per her own choice, instead of following the sample sheet. This shows her creative mind.
Therefore, the kids’ art activity at VALA Art Centre is an opportunity for me to understand the creative mind of kids more precisely.

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