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!

Showing posts with label Coloring/Activity Pages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coloring/Activity Pages. Show all posts

Monday, October 19, 2015

Monday, October 12, 2015

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Swami Chinmayananda Coloring Page (15)

Suggestion: If this image is printed onto card stock, you can carefully cut along the outline of Pujya Gurudev and use your artwork in a pop-up card. Have fun! :-)

Directions for pop-up cards
A short YouTube Tutorial for Pop-Up Cardmaking


Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Swami Chinmayananda Coloring Page (14)

Balakrishna Menon – Swami Chinmayananada as a youth.

Suggestion: If this image is printed onto card stock, you can carefully cut along the outline of Pujya Gurudev and use your artwork in a pop-up card. Have fun! :-)

Directions for pop-up cards
A short YouTube Tutorial for Pop-Up Cardmaking


Monday, September 28, 2015

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Lord Hanumaan

Here is a coloring sheet that our young children use to practice their likhita japa with. Have them fill in Lord Hanumaan with राम (rāma).

Materials
• Coloring page (see below)
• Markers or pens in different colors

Click on the image below and print
Make sure to adjust your brightness and printing size, if necessary.



Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Rangoli/Mandala

Some of our kindergarten friends have been asking for more rangoli mandala patterns to practice their likhita japa with ... so here is another one. Have fun!!

Materials
Crayons/Markers (colors)
Print out (see below)

Click on image and print.
Make sure to adjust your printing size and brightness, if necessary




Saturday, February 26, 2011

Lord Shiva Lingam Mandala

This is a coloring page for children to perform their likhita japa with. The younger children will probably fare better by coloring the picture with crayons and then writing on the outside border. The older children might want to try coloring the entire Shiva Lingam with likhita japa − ऊँ नमः शिवाय (om namaḥ śivāya)

This project was created to accompany the Kindergarten's Tracing Sheet ऊँ नमः शिवाय (click here to view.)

Materials
Markers/Crayons (black and red)
Writing pens
Mandala Page (see below)

Click on the image and print
Make sure to adjust your brightness and page settings on your printer, if necessary.


Saturday, February 12, 2011

Connect the Dots: Duck

This is an activity page to help children practice their numbers 1-20 in Sanskrit. When they are finished connecting the dots and coloring the page, have them write कादम्बः below the drawing.

This was designed to accompany a story for the Kindergarten Class's lesson: "O is for Obedience."

कादम्बः
kādambaḥ
(duck)

Click the image below and then print.
Make sure to adjust your printing size, if necessary



Saturday, February 5, 2011

Connect the Dots: Cow

This is an activity page to help children practice their numbers 1-20 in Sanskrit. When they are finished connecting the dots and coloring the page, have them write the object's name in Sanskrit. This was designed to accompany the all-time favorite story "Punyakoti" for the Kindergarten class.

धेनु
dhenu
cow

Click on the image below and print.
Make sure to adjust your printing size, if necessary.


Friday, January 21, 2011

Deepa: Connect the Dots

This is an activity page to help children practice their numbers 1-20 in Sanskrit. When they are finished connecting the dots and coloring the page, have them write the object's name in Sanskrit.

दीपः
deepaḥ
lamp

Click on the image below and print.
Make sure to adjust your printing size, if necessary.




Elephant: Connect the Dots

This is an activity page to help children practice their Sanskrit numbers 1-20. When they are finished connecting the dots and coloring the page, have them write गजः (gajah, elephant) in Sanskrit.

Click on the image below and print.
Make sure to adjust your printing size, if necessary.

गजः
gajaḥ
elephant




Monday, January 17, 2011

Numbers 11-20 (Sanskrit)

Coloring/activity pages to help children learn numbers 11-20 in Sanskrit. Please note that these numbers are in the neuter gender.
Click here to download pages.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Frog Drawing

Print the page below and draw a frog. We like to use these activity sheets in our Kindergarten class during the "Sanskrit Fun Segment." Feel Free to copy the sample below, or better yet, create your own image!

Materials
Print out (see below)
Black marker/crayons

मण्डूकः
maṇḍūkaḥ
frog

Click on the image and print.
Make sure to adjust your printing size, if necessary.

Bird Drawing

Print the page below and draw a bird. We like to use these activity sheets in our Kindergarten class during the "Sanskrit Fun Segment." Feel free to copy the sample below, or better yet, create your own image!

Materials
Print out (see below)
Black marker/crayon

खगः
khagaḥ
bird

Click on the image and print.
Make sure to adjust your printing size, if necessary.