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

Sanskrit Animal Sponge Book



© 2009 This project is dedicated to Gurudev.
For use in Balavihar classrooms (or personal use) only.

Summer Camp 2010
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These are sample pages of a Sanskrit Animal Book. Each one of the images are created with an oval shaped sponge dipped in gray paint and then detailed with black pen lines. Each image is mounted onto a hand-sewn book. (Directions on how to make a hand-sewn book will be posted shortly.)
Posted by CMTC Sevika at 2:43 AM
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