Report on Making "Kolam" for Deepavali Celebration

On the 31st October 2012, the Leo Club of SMK Assunta held an activity on Deepavali Celebration was drawing ‘Kolam’. A few Leos helped in this activity. We started our activity at around 1.30 p.m. which was after school. We did this at our school cafe.

Firstly, we arranged the chairs around the place on where we decided to place the ‘Kolam’.We then swept the place. Next we started to sketch the outlines of a peacock as the ‘Kolam’ by using chalks. We put the coloured rice in to it. We put the coloured rice nicely and inserted the colours exactly like a peacock. Pink and red were made the colours of the petals, while dark blue and light blue were the colours of the peacock body.

Then, we put white, yellow, dark green, light green and red for the colours of the feathers. We had many fun while putting this peacock ‘Kolam’. Some of our school teachers praised us and told us that we were diligent. We drew some patterns by using the suji flour so that it would not look messy.

Finally, we used the same flour to write the words 'Happy Diwali' and 'Leo Club of Assunta' by the sides of the peacock. We finished this Peacock 'Kolam' around 5.00 p.m. At last we enjoyed this activity.

Report by, Leo Kaarthiga.