Education
Aesthetic and Gustatory Feast at Rainbow School, Jaipur
“Creativity is a result of putting ideas into action.” On 31 Oct 2015, under the aegis of Sahodaya Fest, Salad Dressing and Festive Rangoli Making Events were organized in Rainbow School, Jhotwara. As many as 86 participants
“Creativity is a result of putting ideas into action.”
On 31 Oct 2015, under the aegis of Sahodaya Fest, Salad Dressing and Festive Rangoli Making Events were organized in Rainbow School, Jhotwara. As many as 86 participants from various reputed schools of Jaipur participated in both the events. The host school had made elaborate arrangements for the smooth conduct of both the activities. The guest schools were accorded a warm welcome with tika and showering of flower petals and were extended best wishes for their performance. Other than the competition, this proved to be great platform for students to interact with students and teachers from other schools.
The day Rainbow started with the Principal, Mrs Seema Dewan welcoming all the schools, sending her best wishes to all the participants and congratulating each teacher for their hard-work, saying that being a principal shoe knows that it’s the students performing at the front with the teachers at the back. She also laid stress on how participation being more important than winning. She advised students to perform their best without worrying for victories. Participation at Sahodaya level itself meant victory of sorts!
As the competition started on different floors of the school, the auditorium took the visitors through a visual journey of the year 2015-16 of the school. It was a nostalgic journey in to the past one year that the school had experienced in the past one year, showing some happy moments, some tearful as well, some full of pride.
A myriad of hues of imagination were seen as the students designed and colored their rangoli patterns. Some fingers at work seemed as adroit as any experienced rangoli designer. The South Indian instrumental music playing in the background added on to the ambience, thus providing the young artists the required disposition and absorption. It was gratifying to see some of the participants so lost in their rangoli designing that they danced away to the background tunes without a hitch.
Engrossed were they in their task as hand! The outcome was breathtaking beautiful designs with floral motifs, dancing peacocks, Lord Ganesha and many more.
Amid soft oriental music in the auditorium the participants could be seen arranging their salad platters with the dexterity of the professionals. One after the other new shapes, new styles kept emerging. With their salad dressing, we realized that students now are a lot more aware of the happenings around them. Some conveyed the message of importance of greenery. Some had themed their salad on Halloween, while some had shown their excitement over Jaipur Metro. Having a word with these young chefs, they gave us an insight into the importance of greens now just for our Earth, but also for our individual lives. Some did point out at us professionals, which was really an eye-opener. Overall the students proved that creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment; it fashions its own perfect moments out of the ordinary ones.
The host school facilitated the efforts of the participants by conducting both the activities in an organized and meticulous manner. The Principal of the school Mrs Seema Deewan appreciated the artistic and aesthetic sensibilities of the students. She also highlighted the importance of colours in one’s life and exhorted the youngsters to fill their surroundings with colours of joy and happiness as they have done today. She thanked them for making the event special with their creative intelligence and imagination.
The event culminated with tea and refreshment for the teachers as well as for the students. Small thank you cards were also given to the guests as a remembrance of the occasion.
To sum it up, we’d say we loved the awakening moments which were soothing to eyes at the same time!