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Young World
Fun things to do
R.Krithika
Many parents shudder at the mention of arts and crafts — the materials involved and their costs. But here are simple, innovative ways to help your child acquire skills like problem-solving, tactile and visual coordination and manipulation of material. And you need nothing more than paper, pen, scissors, gum, colour pencils and little things like shells, twigs and clay.
Look up the five-volume set of Art and Craft by Nicholas Horsburgh. Priced attractively at Rs. 40 each (the fifth volume alone is Rs. 50), the books cover a broad range of activities from the simple joining dots to drawing a picture, mixing colours, creating smudge pictures (all in Book One) to the more complicated rangoli patterns, silhouettes, papier mâché and shading colours.
Each book is provided with exhaustive "Teacher's Notes" at the end, which go page by page and connect the activity to one covered in an earlier book.
Art and Craft Book 1-5, Nicholas Horsburgh, Oxford University Press, Rs. 40 each. Book Five alone is Rs. 50.
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