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

Mouse Puppet


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

Click on image to view enlarged.


This is an easy project to do for Ganesha's mouse, or any of the Panchatantra tales.

Materials
1 piece of card stock (for printing template below.)
Brown Paper Lunch Bag
Brown construction paper (or card stock)
Pink construction paper (or card stock)
2 wiggly eyes
Glue stick
Scissors
Scotch tape
Black marker

Directions
1. Fold paper bag to create face shape. (See instructions on template below.)
2. Cut out shapes from template. (Trace shapes onto construction paper as indicated.)
3. Cut out 2 big circles from brown construction paper for ears.
4. Cut out 2 smaller circles from pink construction paper.
5. Glue the 2 smaller circles onto the big brown circles.
6. Glue ears onto the paper bag.
7. Glue wiggly eyes on.
8. With black marker draw a nose (and whiskers - optional.)
9. Glue (or tape) long rectangular strip on the backside for a tale. (Use pencil or scissors to roll the strip around. This will give the tale a little bit of curl.)

Click on image for full-page view. Print.


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