Art Expression Workshop

Posted by Prachi Aggarwal , Saturday, June 19, 2010 9:32 AM
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The Art Expression Workshop was an initiative by Chulbule team to provide a medium of expression to children.

The underlying theme of this workshop was " Expressing Emotions" through lines, shapes, colors, exploring different medium of art. All this to tell and encourage children about this wonderful form of self expression and give them a new direction to vent out their emotions. Art is the expression of our lives, soul, mind and body. It is the expression of our heart unbound by shapes, forms, lines and figures.

The short term workshop at Pehal was to broaden the minds of the children and bring out their true self expression. Children gained self confidence and have their thoughts a direction.

Day 1: The children were given an introduction of how to express themselves through art. They were then given some emotions. Most of them were hesitant in the beginning, but really freaked out once they started coloring and came out with some amazing pieces of works

Day 2: The children were introduced to other art forms, like advertising, story telling, jingles etc. They were given very unusual products, which normally are never advertised. They were told to make jingles, story, advertisement - anything, using those products, which they enjoyed to the core. With this activity, they learnt to think out of the box, to think about uses of products that they use in their day to day life, to work in groups as a team, and about the different forms of "art". These kids have immense talent, which stood out distinctly with this activity.


Day 3: Junk and Action Art - The whole idea of this activity was to make kids "experience" art freely. They were told to work carefree, without bothering about figures, forms or anything. The kids loved dripping the paint and seeing the arbit color mix. It was great fun, both for the kids, and for us!

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Impact Day

Posted by Unknown , Monday, June 14, 2010 12:53 PM





Each day at Pehal, we feel that we are even more driven towards our goals and objectives. Here, we strive to provide all of that, that we can, to those little kids. IMPACT DAY was celebrated in association with Deloitte, on Friday, June 11, 2010 at both the schools- MCD Primary School, BT Block, and MCD Primary School, Sahipur, Shalimar Bagh. It was an initiative by Deloitte to augment the learning and creative capabilities of the children at Pehal. The day started when about 30 employees of Deloitte arrived in the school. There were three activities planned for each school:
  1. Collage making at BT Block, and Card Making at Sahipur School.
  2. Story-Telling
  3. A Skit/Play

To start with our first activity, the kids were divided into groups of four to five and headed by an employee of Deloitte. Sheets, Old Newspapers, Colours, Sketch Pens, Scissors, Glue, etc. were given to each group head. The group heads then made the children learn how to make a collage. The theme we had given them was “Environment” and time allocated was 30 minutes. It was surely fun watching these little kids trying to cut material from old newspapers and magazines to make a collage out of it. This particular theme also gave them many ideas on which they could make their collage. Soon, time got over and the best of collages were shortlisted. After a tough selection process, the best two entries were selected and awarded.

In a similar way, a card-making competition was held at Sahipur School and the children made cards on various themes like Diwali, Christmas, and cards for their Mothers/Fathers/Sisters/Brothers etc.

Our second activity in the list was Story-Telling. The employees of Deloitte came forward and enacted a story in front of the children. Here, these kids had to guess the moral of the story, which they very rightly shouted as “Importance of Education”. A few more employees came one by one and recited stories in front of these kids. It was fun and a great learning experience for the kids.

The last activity for both the schools was a play performed by the kids. Our volunteers have been working very hard for the past one week to make the children rehearse for the plays they had to present in front of everyone on this big day. The effort that the volunteers and the children had put in was evident when they presented their skits. At the MCD School, BT block, the children acted on the theme “Importance of trees” and at MCD School, Sahipur, the children portrayed “Importance of Hygiene”.

This process of making them learn was accompanied with songs and poems from the children. Our purpose in totality was to make these children experience the play-way method of gaining knowledge through all these activities that were planned. The day had come to an end, when the employees wrote their experiences on our message board. Ms. Anshu wrote “Thanks to Pehal for giving us an opportunity to make an IMPACT on the lives of these children, even for a day. Today we spent a day with these children who have less assets than we have and we felt elated in helping them and making them happy.” Ms. Shalini said “Thank you for giving us the opportunity of interacting with the purest souls of earth”. And Mr. Pankaj shared “It will have a long lasting impact on our memories”.

The day concluded with distribution of refreshments to the children and the employees. We all thanked our guests from Deloitte for their efforts in making the day so meaningful for the children.

And while I write this, I feel proud to be a part of this organization; proud to be a Pehal Change maker.


Mayank Kumar

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