The children of the city are enjoying their summer vacations with great joy and fun with various fun learning activities being organised at Jawahar Bal Bhavan.
The children are giving an enchanting touch to the wet clay at ceramic workshop that began here on Tuesday. Besides, a dance workshop on traditional and contemporary forms is also evoking a good response by the tiny tots.
An artist in ceramic art Rachna Tomar would train the aspirants in these new forms. As many as 50 students have got an opportunity to create something new out of the earthen clay.
“Ceramic art is something which is being in practice for a decade not in India but, in many other States of the world. The innovations done in the ceramic art over the last few years would be practiced at the workshop by the ceramists. Aspirants could feel the enchantment of the clay,” said Rachna Tomar.
Here at Jawahar Bal Bhavan, Rachna is teaching the traditional clay art to the children of age group between 10 to 16 years. The students have learnt to make the faces of tribal on the first day of the workshop. Besides, they were also informed about the ceramic art and its importance till now.
The students made tribal jewellery out of clay in different designs. Rachna further taught them the art with two different clays, over which they used the magic of their fingers and made beautiful ornaments of it. The children also painted the tribal jewellery and faces using acrylic colours. They were also exposed to ceramic art over canvas.
She also informed that from May 25 onwards, children would be trained in glass and sand painting too.
The children are enjoying the moves and grooves over Hindi songs and are learning the traditional dance forms as well. Chhau dance, Bharatnatyam and Kathak forms along with contemporary forms are taught to the children.