Butter pot
Butter Pot
(Best out of waste)
Related Values:
- Making art out of waste
- Making effort to keep the environment clean
Materials Required:
- Coconut shell (half)
- Sand paper
- Colour paper/Acrylic Paints, brushes
- Kundan stones, sequins
- Fevicol/Feviquick
- Thread/thin rope
Get ready With:
Narrate stories of Krishna’s childhood Leelas, where he broke pots of butter and ran away with his cowherd friends. Also explain to children about Dahi Handi which is celebrated every year in certain parts of India, a day after Krishna Janmashtami. Earthen pots filled with curd, are hung at great heights. Young men and boys make a human pyramid and attempt to reach the pot and to break it. It is a public spectacle. It is almost considered as a team sport and there is prize money. It is based on the legend of Krishna stealing butter and curd from earthen pots.
Activity:
- Take half a shell of coconut left behind, after it is scraped.
- This waste material can be scrubbed nicely to remove the lose fibres. Polish it with a sand paper.
- Now, paint the shell or stick a colour paper to it. You may stick the threads at the sides with fevicol or feviquick or alternately stick with cello tapes, to make the handle of the curd pot (as shown in the picture).
- Decorate the coconut shell with kundan stones and sequins.
- You can fill the shell with some cotton balls. This will give the effect of having butter in the pot!
Krishna’s butter pot is ready.