Chellu's cooking pursuits have off late kicked off another interest too- gift wrapping..Actually its been an interest since a long time. Chellu has always gift-wrapped her presents for her friends' presents. Presents to me, to her dad..I think its more of her urge to put an artistic touch to everything. She likes to present things well.
But recently when she started to look she has also been gift-wrapping them especially the ones she keeps for her cousin sister Dhriti. Yesterday she gift wrapped a lollipop, mehendi cone & a chocolate all in the same time.
Choco-mix pouches. The one in the background is for her cousin where Chellu tied the satin ribbon like a bag handle & carried it happily across to her mama's house.
The interesting part is that a lot of these gift wrappings have happened with "trash". Grocery packaging, plastic wraps, chocolate wrappings , strings etc..They are stored in a box in the toy-room and have been used very innovatively. This has made me realize that nothing can really be trash..its how we present it to our kids. So much art can happen with what we throw. And artists like Dominic Anthony who is a world-renowned Trash Artist have proven that trash can be a gr8 medium for art.
This one was prepared by Chellu in Mumbai from left over chart paper. She sprayed it paint from an old brush and then tied it with a thing piece of cloth from the left-overs of her grand-mom's stitching. In it was packed jewellery that Chellu had made for her cousin sister. This packaging like others was done by her all by herself with no input from me whatsoever.
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