Tackling sustainability and the environment, the two sessions scheduled this weekend include learning about SpongeBob’s friends that live in intertidal zones along Mumbai’s coast in the Who Lives In A Pineapple Under The Sea workshop on Saturday. Charged with kinaesthetic learning techniques, in this session, kids will be introduced to the homes of Mumbai’s sea creatures and the risk that their destruction may pose. They will do so by building cool new homes for these creatures. In the second workshop, Net Gala, kids will upcycle fishing nets into clothing; the nets, when torn and left in the sea, trap and kill marine creatures. Both sessions will engage children in water-related environmental problems and potential solutions. These include interactive activities, questions that facilitate reflection, and tools to help kids tap into their potential to create solutions for real-life issues that they will have to deal with in the future.

Preeti Goel Sanghi

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Sanghi points out, “Children approach new concepts without the biases or filters that grown-ups might, but with empathy and consideration.” This becomes the perfect set-up for new perspectives and innovative ideas to flow. And so each workshop swaps a strict instruction-based approach for one that equips young participants with the skillset and information to further apply their curiosity. “Learning then stays with kids and comes back to them,” Sanghi notes, highlighting that it allows better 
recall and connections.

On February 11 and 12; 
11 am to 1.30 pm at Mumbai Urban Art Festival, Sassoon Docks. 
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Cost  Rs 499 for each workshop