Chakravyooh Antakshari

Objective:

Enabling children to recollect the various concepts related to different Faiths.

Related Values:

• Memory
• Curiosity
• Concentration
• Determination

Materials Required:

• Printouts of the image
• Answer sheet
• Pen/Pencil

Preparatory work for the Guru:

None

How to play

1. The Guru provides a printout of the image to each child.
2. She explains to the class how to go about the Antakshari with the help of an example, – If the  word is BALRAM- What is the next word?
3. The children may be told to focus on the last one/two/three letters of the previous word (Balram) as the next word can begin with.
4. Its last letter – M (Example: MECCA), Its last two letters – AM (Example: AMRITSAR) or last three – RAM (Example: RAMAYAN), as per the practice in Antakshari Game.
5. From the given Chakravyooh image, children are required to identify and write the 20 words related to Hinduism, Sikhism, Christianity, Jainism and Islam on the sheet. The words could be Names, Scriptures, festivals or concepts of any of the religions.

Find the 20 familiar words (Related to different religions, that follow in a sequence within the given chakra beginning with QURAN.

Solutions:

1. QURAN
2. NANAK
3. KEVALIN
4. LINGAM
5. MARY
6. YASHODA
7. DAMODAR
8. RADHA
9. HARI
10. RIG
11. GOSPEL
12. LANGAR
13. RAMZAAN
14. NANDALAL
15. ALLAH
16. HANUMAN
17. NAMADEV
18. DEVKI
19. INDRA
20. RAMAYAN