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Learning through Arts - Day 2

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So finally Nischal, Manoj, Kislay, Ajay, Amrita and myself,volunteers of Child Rights & You (CRY), Bangalore East PAG; conducted our second session as part of Learning through Arts, a program by ArtSparks in collaboration with CRY. Day 2: 5th December 2015 Picking up from super Hero :D/ inspirational Hero, we could explain who an inspirational Hero is? One of us quoted mother as example. Taking this as an example we asked our kids to names their heros. I know you are curious to know these stories but I better leave the suspense to the end. Now that we have decided our hero, it was time to revise the previous class. So it was STANDING LINESSSS, SLEEPING LINESSS, ZIG-ZAG LINES (well they just learnt that it was same as mountain lines from previous class), CAARCLE, SQUUAREE, RECTAANGLE, OVAL. Goal: Visualizing and Sketching Hero Character. Starting with our session's goals, I took inputs from kids and drew my hero. Learning from previous session's mistak

Learning through Arts - Day1

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Hey everyone! My name is Sudeshna Pal. I am a software engineer based in Bengaluru who works from Monday to Friday. I am a simple Indian girl, who loves playing, talking and growing with kids. I have been volunteering with Child Rights & You (CRY) since June 2014. I have been a part of many activities conducted by us over a period of past 1 year. We love every moment we spend at Angadwadis and schools which are partnered with CRY. Trust me though we get annoyed & perplexed as to how to control them, their love and affection more than equalizes for everything. Here, I thought I would share my experiences of a 10 day workshop of a simple puppet making program. This program is guided by ArtsSparks Foundation partnered with CRY. We love you Nisha, who is the founder of ArtsSparks Foundation for giving us such elaborate practice sessions before we could qualify giving instructions to children. Day 1: 28th November 2015 We reached the premises of school at 9:30 am. This is a g