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Death Is a Celebration

Part 2: Death Is a Celebration

MATERIALS NEEDED

  • 1. Water
  • 2. Sand
  • 3. Straw
  • 4. Incense Stick

PROCEDURE

Encourage the children to do a beautiful art which utilizes all the five elements of nature like water, for earth use sand, air for blowing, for fire use incense stick, and represent the space as paper. Encourage the children to mix sand with poster colors and water and then use straw to do blowing on the plain sheet so that they can do straw blowing painting. After it is dried, ask them to make designs by creating holes with incense sticks.

INFERENCE

Our body is made up of all the five elements of nature water, earth, air, fire, and space.

PROCEDURE

This game is a group activity which ensures focus and co-ordination. Encourage the children to sit in a circle. One child will be the catcher and he has to identify who is the leader. The game is each has to continue to do the activity. Then the leader changes the activity others has to follow it and it goes on like this. The game goes so fast. The catcher has to correctly identify who changes the activity as the leader. Now other child who identified the leader will sit and the leader will be the catcher

INFERENCE

Connect them to the fact that being in the present is very important. Just be in the present and allow time to flow through you.

EXPLANATION:

Encourage each child to talk about and write down the changes that happened in their life and ask them to talk about how they handled the changes.

For example:

How about their new friend? What they felt when there was a new friend, new school, or any new place or any new dimension? How did they handle the new situation?

INFERENCE:

Any change happening to us is the death of the old person and evolving of the new person. For everything, you hold the key to getting upset or accepting the change happily. This is decided by you. One step, one click is needed to make our understanding better about change.