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The YMCA in Andheri has a huge hall to accommodate any kind of event. We were told that the 64 children wanted to just have fun! We just readily obliged.
We spent a lot of time thinking what can we do to make this a ‘crazy’ event. We thought of a number of things, from playing cricket to tele-games to painting and colouring. After much up and down on this, we settled to play 3-4 different games with them and just let them jump around as much as possible.
And what a hit the event was!
We started with our favourite game, four corners. The children just did not want to get ‘out’. They kept sneaking back into the group to continue playing. After a point we wrapped up those rounds and began another game.
We had a set of hulla-hoops that we wanted to use in this event. We divided the boys in pairs, made them stand in a circle in front of each other and passed the hulla-hoop around them with music playing. If the hulla-hoop stopped at a certain pair, they had to go through a ‘punishment’. The boys are so talented that each pair had something new to show us. Some danced, sang, some took back-flips and a group of boys even performed for us. We were thrilled to watch them. Some of them just took to the hulla-hoops and perfected the art of twirling them around their tiny waists.
This was followed by the paper dance. This game makes sure every single person at the event participates and has fun.
We had gifts for the ones who won the various games we played, which brought more smiles on their faces.
A snack of veg puffs, mawa cakes and Frooti brought all the energy back to the boys who later went down and began their march-past practice.
One of the boys requested us to leave the hulla-hoops back with them, we just readily handed them over.
Eighty-five super energetic boys waited for our arrival at the Don Bosco Boy’s Hostel. We had held an event with them a few years back, and knew the mischief that the boys could put up.
We reached the venue and decorated it with Christmas streamers and balloons to bring in the festive spirit. Some of the boys came up to help us and made sure we had some decoration on every wall of the venue.
We started with a game of four corners to break the ice with the children, having enjoyed themselves immensely; they wanted us to continue with the rest of the activities we had planned for them. We split up the boys into a number of groups. These groups had a mix of younger and older boys, this way everyone gets to participate and it encouraged team work. They gave their own groups names such as ‘Batti Gul’ ‘Kings’ and ‘Shivaji the Boss’. We handed out art paper, colours, marble paper, scissors and glue; each team had been assigned one product that they had to create an ad for. The products included things such as chairs, toothpaste, shades and combs.
The boys were given 25 minutes for the entire activity. After a lot of noise and commotion the 25 minutes ended and the boys started performing group-wise.
Our judges, the family whose little girl’s birthday it was on that day, had a tough time scoring the groups while holding their stomachs and laughing through the performances. The boys enjoyed putting on their act. Kshana volunteers were part of these groups and made sure that every child had a role to play in the act.
After all the hard work it was time to put on their dancing shoes. Post all the dancing, we distributed prizes to the winners of the ad making competition. The gifts comprised of a cricket set and footballs, something they wanted.
A sumptuous meal of chole, puri, kadhi and rice with gulab jamuns for dessert was served to them. They enjoyed their dinner thoroughly and thanked each and every one of us for spending the day with them and giving them a lovely evening to remember.
Our pleasure, entirely.
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