Dedicated to our Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda

Dedicated to our Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda

Hari OM!

This blog is designed to serve as a library of art and craft ideas for our balavihar children. We hope that you will find this site useful. Please feel free to use any (or all) of the projects you see posted here. We ask, however, that you refrain from publishing (in any form) these templates, instructions, and photographs, unless you receive written permission. These projects are being provided for your own personal use or use in the Balavihar classroom.


All art projects are categorized by 1) material, 2) use, and 3) type. For example a Diya greeting card would be under the labels "Paper" and "Cards," while a Lord Hanumaan puppet would be found under "Paper," "Toys and Puppets" and "Gods and Goddesses." Most materials for these projects can easily be purchased from any local craft store — and some projects involve materials you already have laying around the house.


We would love to hear your suggestions and ideas about any of the information you find on this site. And, if you have any projects that you would like to share with other seviks/sevikas, please send a picture of the finished piece, as well as instructions on how to make the project – so we can post it.


Happy Creating!

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Thirsty Black Crow


© 2008 This project is dedicated to Gurudev.
For use in Balavihar classrooms (or personal use) only.

This is an art project to go along with "The Thirsty Crow" Panchatantra.


Materials
Light colored piece of cardstock
Black Poster Board
Small piece of orange construction paper (or gold foil)
2 paper fasteners (brads)
straw
2 googly eyes
stapler
scissors

Directions
1. Print the image onto a light colored piece of cardstock. Cut all the pieces out. These are to be used as your templates.
2. Fold a piece of black poster board in half. Place the body template on the paper (with the top of the head at the fold). Trace and cut out. You should have two complete bodies joined at the top of the head.
3. Trace 2 wings onto a single piece of black poster board. Cut out.
4. Trace beak onto orange construction paper. Cut out.
5. Place the straw between the 2 pieces of body and staple onto the straw.
6. Place a wing on top of the body (at the shoulder) and using a hole puncher, punch a hole through the wing and the body. Fasten with a brad. Do the same thing with the other wing.
7. Glue the eyes and the beak on.
8. Twirl the straw between your palms.*

* If the wings don't flap up and down as you spin your crow, then you must loosen the paper fasteners.



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