Zeemboombaa Tales

It was an exciting weekend with back to back storytelling sessions on Saturday & Sunday.

Halloween stories on 30 Oct: Story 1 - Jack'O Lantern story (reason y v celebrate Halloween & pumpkin carving). Story 2 - story of Haunted house (a spooky story for d season). Craft: skeleton using ear buds n black cards.

Diwali stories on 31 Oct: Story 1 - Lord Ram returns to Ayodhya after 14 yrs of exile n reason v light Divas for Diwali. Story 2 - Story of Naragasura killed by Sathyabhama & Krishna. Reason y v burst d crackers. Story 3 - story of king Hima n how his Daughter-in-law saves d prince from snake using gold. Reason y v buy gold n do Lakshmi poja. Craft: Lantern.

We had gud fun with Kids and we are looking forward to our next session.

Storytelling by Avinash Ramakrishnan
Crafts by Gayathri Avinash

V r back! After a long hiatus, courtesy pandemic😞

On occasion of Dussehra, we had a special storytelling session on famous epic - Ramayana. It was a 2 day workshop covering 10 episodes over 4 hours. We received overwhelming response from kids of age group 4 - 10 years. 13 enthusiast kids joined us over the weekend.

It was quite a surprise for us to observe that even kids of this gen are extremely interested in listening to an Epic! Throughout d long narration, kids were glued to d story & participated in discussions. Both the days, stories were followed by crafts (Rama on day 1 & Ravana on day 2) and kids had great fun. We received positive feedback from parents of participanting kids.

With d success of this workshop, we are happy that our experiment on such long storytelling also work among kids! We are looking forward to exploring similar modules in future!!!

Storytelling by Avinash Ramakrishnan
Crafts by Gayathri Avinash

Ho Ho Ho. . .
It’s Holiday season & here v r with a Christmas special ‘Storytelling’ followed by crafts on 19 Dec (4 pm - 5 pm).

Pls note: We are looking for limited group (only on registration). Pls register in advance (also pls register only if your kid(s) can definitely make it on 19 Dec (as we need to plan for craft materials). As a precautionary measure, mask is compulsory for all. If the child/ any family member is unwell pls skip d session.

Last weekend, on occasion of Diwali, v had gud time wit kids - Narrating stories & listening to their versions 🙂

We discussed 3 stories related to Diwali.
1. Story of a Prince (son of King Hima) n how his wife saved him from yama (who came in d form of snake) using gold n lamps. Reason why we buy gold during Diwali.
2. Story of Naragasura n how he was killed by sathyabama (tricked by Krishna); celebrating d death of d demon is d reason why we burst cracker.
3. Lord Rama returned to Ayodhya after 14 yrs, people celebrated with row of lights (Deepa:light, wali:row) and bursting crackers.
Craft: To reinforce d stories, we did a rocket using tissue roll n colour papers.

Can’t wait for the next one. Thinking of sessions for Christmas or maybe Thanksgiving. Let’s see. . .

Hi, on occasion of Halloween (31st Oct), we did a storytelling & craft for kids in Edogawa (Tokyo).
1. *Storytelling*: after discussing few basic info about Halloween festival, we started with our story of d day: Jack-o'-lantern. The story of jack & d satan (evil spirit): d story behind y v carve pumpkins n light.
2. *Craft session*: a craft - scary bat using color papers.
3. *Storybuilding game*: using clue cards
4. *Photo session wit Halloween decor*: v took group & individual pictures of each child with d Halloween decor. Kids had gr8 time. V r planning for similar sessions for every special occasion (festivals) here in Tokyo. Looking forward to continued support

Photos of few sessions that we missed uploading on our page:
- Stories on Holi. Craft: Spraying colours on fabric
- Stories on Snail. Craft: Snail using Egg box
- Stories & craft on whales.
- Stories & craft on colours & rainbow.

With Holi festival around d corner, we discussed 2 stories related to d festival today. . .
Story 1. Holika (sister of demon Hiranyakashappu) had a boon that fire wil not hurt her. She tricks n takes Prahalad (son of Hiranyakashappu) into fire; resulting in getting burnt to ashes, however Prahlad escapes wit d blessings of lord Vishnu. To celebrate this victory of good over evil, we celebrate Holi by lighting bonfire .
Story 2. Story of Krishna being teased by Radha for being dark. Krishna complains to his mom, (Yashodha); she playfully told him that he could color Radha’s face with whatever color he liked. Krishna throws colors on Radha’s face and they end up playing with colors.

Holi also marks the end of winter and beginning of spring season. Craft: “bouquet of colours” using their palm as outline.