The ‘Story Art’ workshop at Schoolkutti.com Children’s Library began with the story of gingerbread man, which was read out by the participating children, from the book ‘Traditional Tales for Boys’.

The workshop was aimed at bringing stories to life, much like the gingerbread man who sprang to life when baked by an old lady. Arts and crafts instructors from Green Butterfly Edu Group patiently taught children various forms of visual expressions through the story – Madhubani through painting gingerbread man and glass painting to make the old lady.

As you know, the story starts in the kitchen. So the first thing the children learnt was painting on pots. In bedtime story books, everything is painted in pastel colours. But here the pots was adorned with acrylic colours and pearl colours. The villain in the story, the fox, was made with a finger puppet. So were the animals – the cow, pig and horse – who ran after the gingerbread man. The story chosen for the workshop was kept a secret until September 14, in vivid and crazy colours.