AFRICAN DRUM

Explore Africa is the summer term concept for my daughter in her school . When we searched internet , we came to know of african crafts for kids . This is one of them ,  we tried it out . Super dooper drum !!! .  

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Paper cups - 2

Strings
Glue

Markers

Brown PaperTapes

Aluminium wrappers



  

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Glue two cups together .

2) Wrap it up with brown paper and tape it in the center.

3) Attach strings and decorate it.

4) Glue aluminiun foils to cover it up .
Drum is readey to play with .

SIMPLE KALAMKARI DESIGNS

Kalamkari is an art of hand painting in Fabrics . Famous art of Andra Pradesh .
Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art

KOLAM

FOLKSY FACES FROM MY DAUGHTER

Some folksy faces from my daughter .I helped her to draw eyes and nose.



Traced out my daughter's hand and then drew the face.








Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art .

SAURA PAINTING

Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art .

TAMILNADU FOLKS - WARLI PAINTING

Warli Painting showing Tamilnadu folks : 1) Kavadi attam 2) Karakattam 3) Jallikattu (Bull fight) 4) Silambattam and 5) Cock fight .

Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art .

EGG SHELL ART - TRIBAL FACE

MATERIALS REQUIRED :

Egg shell - 1
Colours

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1 )Clean the shell and allow it to dry .
2) Colour and dry it.
3) Draw face with pencil.


4) Mark it with marker and again colour it.



Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art .

PUPPETS - MAYILATTAM / POI KAL KUTHIRAI(MADHUBANI STYLE)

Mayilattam (Peacock dance ) and Poikal kuthirai(False leg horse dance ) are very famous folk dances in TamilNadu . These are now a days performed in village festivals or in government functions representing TamilNadu . Linking this to Shruti's Folk Art Challenge .



MATERIALS REQUIRED :

OHP Sheets
Glass painting colours
Pencil
Erasers
Popsicles
Glue
Thread
OHP Markers

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Pencil Sketch the figures in plain paper .



2) Trace the figures to OHP using markers .
3) Colour it using glass painting colours and allow it to dry.



4) Glue the OHP sheet to a plain paper . Cut out the pictures .
5) Glue popsicles to the painitng one in the top and other in the bottom
6) Tie a thick thread to both the top sticks of both the paintings.
7) Hold the middle of the thread to show puppets dancing to your kids.

JUST LIKE THAT ------ PAINTING

Linking it with Shruti's Folk Art .