Picnic

As a part of learning stages of Our Expressions,(Tribal culture influences ethnic expressions),the students of Grade I to 3 were taken to the Janapada Loka on Saturday 25th February 2024.. Janapada Loka is a house of rural artifacts which bring out the theme of “folk literature, music, dance, festivals, sculpture and lifestyle”.This field trip was organized to help the children understand the folk traditions of Karnataka. The exhibits in this museum included various types of rural household items and agricultural tools such as Bead Panels, wall pegs, fans, granary, table lamp stands, rat traps, balance, different types of stoves, ragi grinders, measuring cylinders, churners, jars to store pickles and wooden baby cradle This wing of the museum exhibits of large dolls of artists who perform the folk dances. The displays here included the pictures of various tribes of Karnataka. The various displays were like leather puppets of Ganapathi, Krishna, Dharmaraya,Duryodhana, Subhadra and Draupadhi.The exhibits also included various instruments like drums, tambura and ekatari. Children were excited to watch the pot making, diya making and exhibits relate to pottery, cottage industries, machinery for sugarcane crushing and oil extraction, a “bullock cart”, and a wooden chariot used in temple processions.