Story Owls

Another weekend gone! Time has been flying faster than the Concorde! This week we were busy getting kids ready, to get ready for school. Pranathi’s son has the first day of his first school today! The weekend before the one gone by,  we had a fun story telling session in Cubbon Park! It was a lovely, magical section of the park, just off the beautiful Red Brick library. We were under the raintrees and cotton trees, so the green grass had specks of almost cloud like cotton everywhere. The shade of the trees made everyone forget that it was a really hot day! We had two stories for our young clients. The first one was a classic, “The Best Nest” by E.L. Reid. It has been a favourite book for us, and Shilpa was the proud owner of her own copy, one she’s been reading since she was a child! The second one was a fun rendition of “The Birds and Pancakes”. As our little clients and their children started arriving, they all settled comfortably under the shade of trees, we start...

We rang in our last event for the month of April with a birthday party. The birthday boy a 5yr chirpy young fellow is an enthusiastic story listener. Our main challenge was to keep a group of 15 kids of age group 4-5 yrs engaged. As this age group would get bored easily with just words , we had to work on a story which would make the story telling interactive . We finally shortlisted "The Lion King" for the event. This was a story that the birthday boy hadnt heard of. On the day of event it took us hardly a few seconds to gather the kids. All of them were looking forward for the story telling (seems it was mentioned in the invite). As we started with the story telling we realized that none of the kids had seen the movie and were all new to the characters in the story. This worked in favor for us. We slowly unfolded the castle rock scene with "Circle of Life"...Soon the kids were engrossed with Simba and his antics, hyenas laughing all around the room, relatin...