India: Teaching child rights with collaborative art!

November 8th, 2011 in Bhavnagar, India Play for Peace volunteer held a creative workshop designed with mixed teams of  youth facilitators and children working together to create compelling stories and messages on a child right's topic.  After creating their story line, they then created art props to use for when later telling their stories.  Then each team collectively told the story/message that they wanted to tell.  Some used quite a bit of drama which made it very fun and engaging and the stories were very informational.  This was used to demonstrate that life skills messages and lessons can be taught using various forms other than games.  This also teaches them to be more creative themselves, plus empowers them to have a speaking part.  The next challenge given was for them to continue to use and develop new ways to tell or teach other children and adults in their communities promoting their voice!