It was a ten-day craft workshop called “Colours – Way of Art”. Children from Std. IV to X from Presidency School, Cambridge School, Lourdes Central School, Canara High School (Urwa), Sharada Vidyalaya and Vivekananda School participated in the workshop.
Reshma Shetty, artist and craft teacher, said the workshop encourages children to think of innovative ideas. They are also taught to recycle waste, tie-and-dye and clay-modelling, she said.
Use waste
Ritika, a student of Std VI, Lourdes Central School, said, “I love making cartoon characters and dolls out of thermocol.” Shruthi, a student of Std VI, Sharada Vidyalaya, said she liked the activity called “best out of waste”.
Manasi, a student of Std V, Lourdes Central School, said that she enjoyed clay-modelling, particularly making elephants out of clay.
“Until I got down to making clay models, I was under the impression that the task was difficult, but now it seems to be one of the easiest,” she said.
Adwitha, Std V, Vivekananda Primary School, also said that she liked clay-modelling. Sharandeep, student of Std VII, Canara Higher Primary School, Urwa, liked making masks out of chart paper.
