15/05/2026
The day I got this opportunity, I couldn’t believe that I am gonna relive my childhood again.
And the first thing that came to my mind was — oh, I never thought I could facilitate such a workshop. I was so excited to spend time with kids, assist them, and just know their ideas of how they would make some character out of their broken toys and all those random things around them. And all these thoughts were already going on in my head a month before everything actually happened.
Then finally the day came, and I reached the venue. Seeing all the colourful materials, I slowly started feeling free to experiment with them and after half an hour, the kids started coming, full of energy and excitement to create and have fun. Watching them sit with all those materials and play with whatever ideas came to their mind… it was such a beautiful thing to witness.
The way they decorated their characters, the way they imagined things from the materials available to them within a few minutes, just made me wonder how creative and free we all were as kids. Nothing had to make sense completely and still we would enjoy creating things out of it.
And while sitting there with them, I started reminiscing about my own childhood days when I also used to collect all the things people considered “waste” and then sit down to create something out of it. I loved imagining how something could turn into some decorative piece or some random creative stuff (maybe I hated the idea of throwing away things, I still do 🤫).
So somehow, this workshop with didn’t feel like I am the one facilitating but more like I am getting to relive a part of my childhood again.
After living a year in Kochi, I would consider this experience to be the most fun and I’m really glad that such workshops take place because sometimes we genuinely forget how naturally creative we used to be before growing up.
