Christmas Holiday Prog 2011

Hai ya Ho

Jhing ga la la

Age Groups
Kittens 3 & 4 year olds - one group of max 12 children
Cubs 5 & 6 year olds - one group of max 12 children

1. Make whacky puppets
2. Create interesting characters using these puppets
3. Munch or cook some delectable stories
4. Using different methods EXPRESS (present your story)

EACH DAY

1. Different puppet making process / styles
2. Different kinds and process of characterization
3. Different story and different way of working with the story
4. Different methods of expression and presentation

1. Activities to work on voice, body and expression
2. Games to work in team - support each other to create magic
3. Play around with characters, situations, stories etc
4. Create their own stories, messages and present them.

1. PUPPETS: Sock Puppets, Shadow puppets, Painted hand puppets, Junk-Box puppets, Broom puppets, etc.
2. CHARACTERIZATION: Create own character, mix two characters, copy a character (from another story), modify the story character, animal character like human, character from my life (say mummy), etc.
3. STORIES: Complete a story, change a story, make a story, opposite story, story in reverse order, re-tell story, etc.
4. EXPRESSION: Puppet show, group show, behind the (light) curtain, talking machine, voice only show, in the camera show, musical show, etc.

1. Theater activities - eg: talk like different people, walk like different people, in groups of two show an aeroplane using your body, in teams of three show a dentist extracting a tooth and so on. Activities which open up child’s body, voice expression - and yes mind!
2. Team Games with fun challenges - eg: Make a tent out of bed-sheet in 5 min, blindfolded make niumbu-paani with one team-mate giving instructions, Race the track with a newspaper placed between the back of team mates or all carrying a stick on their feet, and so on.
3. Stories & Characterization activities: Given situation create a story, given a scene create the story before and after, given a story add totally unrelated characters, make characters opposite to change the story - and so on.
4. Presentation: Given the above three, children are given themes, messages to be conveyed and in different ways they communicate - drama, musical show, shadow show, mime, improv show, etc

1. PUPPETS: Its not how good the puppets look. But when child creates it child OWNs it. Also how the child overcomes the constraints which invariably lead the child’s creativity to be the beneficiary.
2. CHARACTERIZATION: To characterize I observe, I relate, I understand and I explore. The key to child’s learning (and to life) is in interacting with others, exploring others and understanding others.
3. STORIES: Children can heighten their enjoyment of a story when they let their imagination turn it, twist it, - literally create something new out of it.
4. EXPRESSION: What we think is what we say - hence expression and thinking are closely connected - one helping the other to develop. When children get a space to express freely - they evolve their learning to a higher plane.

1. Theater Activities: Body is so intricately connected to the mind - that every time we work through our body - we work on our mind. Its a winning combo. The actual expression does not matter - mere usage creates magic
2. Team Games: The more children enjoy the fruits of interdependence, the more they enjoy life itself. And this kind of activities trigger collective creativity which stimulates our thinking exponentially.
3. Stories & Characterization activities: Children can heighten their enjoyment of a story when they let their imagination turn it, twist it, - literally create something new out of it.
4. Expression: What we think is what we say - hence expression and thinking are closely connected - one helping the other to develop. When children get a space to express freely - they evolve their learning to a higher plane.