Diwali Greetings to ALL

Rangoli Making

On Diwali it is very typical to make Rangolis: a form of sandpainting to floor painting with traditional wet color or powder rangoli...


We thought the kids could have a great opportunity to put their diyas on them and make their house sparkle. And so we did! We gave kids a few designs of rangoli and made them paint, colour, decorate... to make wonderful designs such as these...

Take a look at the wonderfull job our kids can do here!

Diya Making

One of the most important things to do for the ocassion of Diwali, Our Festival of Lights, is to light up a lot of diyas in the house, and so we thought, why do not this year the kids make their own diyas?

So that is what we did! We made our kids make their own diyas, paint and decorate them too. We then put wax into them so that it is safer than oil...

And here you have some beautiful pictures of the making and final wonders they made. Check them out!

My Friend Ganesha movie

Oh Yes! How could we forget showing the kids this lovely movie and latest movie... MY FRIEND GANESHA... And so we did!

The story revolves around a family of 4 members, Aaditya (Father), Aarti (Mother), Ashu (8 year old son), Aditi (Father's Sister) and a maid (Gangubai). The parents of the boy are too involved in their daily lives and hence cannot give much time to the boy who always feels lonely. He would only get to be with the maid.On one rainy day the boy saves a mouse from drowning and saves his life. He brings the small mouse home and tells the maid about it. She is very happy and tells the boy that he has saved Lord Ganesha's pet ride. The boy not being able to understand Gangubai explains to him the full episode of Lord Ganesha & Mushakraj and also that he is his friend. Ashu gets sad and tells Gangubai that he is also alone and needs a friend on which she tells him that Ganesha can be his friend. The boy gets excited at this thought. It was a period where the Family was going through crisis & was coinciding with the forthcoming Ganesha Festival. Gangubai somehow convinces everyone to bring Ganesha home this festival. Ashu is very excited, Ganesha comes in their home and things started turning around in their family. Ganesha becomes Ashu's friend and together with him solves various problems of their family. Together they have a lot of fun these 11 days.

It was great to have over 100 people out of which 80 were kids to watch the movie together and create that attachment towards their own made ganapatis.

We also had a great interval ...were we had popcorn juices and sandwiches toghther.

After the movie we gave out a ganapti competion to all kids...a Crossword and a word search about our friend ganesha.The winner would get 2 free tickets to the cinema at Gran Sur for the movie of their choice. Good luck to all