Kashyap imagined an 'Ice Dragon' in Finland. He strongly believes that there still are massive dragons, like those of yore, hiding deep in the frozen forests and mountains in Finland.
Janak started with the idea of making a female 'Yeti', he spoke a lot about it and finally got to the make Yeti instead.
Shayan is from Maldieves, and is quite fascinated with the Indian traditions, so he made this marriage couple fully decorated puppet. This is the kind of wedding that he wants to have!!!
Laisa is attracted to water like a fish, when on field trips she refuses to get out of the water hole. Her favorite animal is a fish. She has a lovely fish tank at home and takes care of all the fish pretty well. She started making a mermaid but then changed her mind to make a fish puppet.
Taara is found of animals, expecially dino's, she had recently watched the Jurassic world with her parents and wanted to make a 'Steggi' puppet, this dino is a friendly, grass eating dino that helps humans when they are lost in the forest.
Taara also made a 'Jolly Dolphin' which is, according to her the princess of the ocean. That is why her skin is all shining and glowing. Like the dino the dolphin in a friendly creature who speaks with children and plays with them on the beach. Jolly even takes children for a free ride on the waves.
Manjunath is fascinated by the traditional Dasara Festival that happened in Mysore in October and wanted to reproduce the heavily decorated animals that were paraded around the Mysore Palace on the 10th of October. He particularly liked the veeerytall donkeys and farming oxen that were paraded. These animals were brought into Mysore especially for the Dasara Festival from the northern part of Karnataka state.
Manha is a 6 year old girl child who loves DORA and here adventures, she believes that she is on a wild trip with DORA while making the puppet. She was all chatty and explaining to the rest of them the things that she and her friend were together discovering together.
Sharil was horrified by the Dasara Puppets that were on display for 10 days in Mysore and which were burnt down to indicate the victory of Good over Evil. She wanted to share this demon character from the Ramayana (Hindu Mythology) who kidnaps a King called Rama's wife to an island which is today's SriLanka, with all her friends in Finland. She has a message as well BEWARE!!!!!!!
Kishore is a Class II child who is always looking for something interesting. Recently he discovered the story of Ganesha, who was punished by his own father but saved by his mother. Ganesha is his most favourite character from the Indian Children's Stories. Kishore believes that Ganesha can read and write at great speed because of his large head and long trunk. He thinks that Ganesha can also listen to two people at the same time because he has elephant ears.
Nandana is a Grade I child and her friend is a flying witch. This friend of her's is a special witch as she is able to fly around the whole world with Nandana on her back. So Nandana comes to school even flying on her back!!!
Palguni made this humming bird puppet, which is carrying a pretty dried twig to build its nest. Palguni was on a field trip from school where she saw a lot of bee-eaters making nest on tall coconut trees. She was inspired by this and wanted to make a humming bird puppet which she finds very colorful.
The artists from Praxis Foundation in Mysore, India are making and sharing art with the 4-5 year old Dynamic Dinosaurs from Açı Preschool in Istanbul, Turkey.
