A one hour intervention was undertaken with fifty odd middle school children of Jaipur based Centre for Communicative English (CCE) before COVID times, ahead of Christmas festival as a cross-curricular activity to know about doodle art with pattern decoration; continuous line drawing, implied line drawing and the festival as a part of social studies.
After making of five-corner star in continuous line drawing and Santa in implied line drawing, the Christmas tree was drawn through a modelling process with instructions having vocabulary like vertical line, horizontal line, slant line, left, right, up, down, etc.
The children drew the Christmas tree and doodled around it with big loops touching the tree with pattern decoration with following symbols: candies, gifts, stars, caps, socks, snow flakes, crosses, bells, jingles and letters of the word ‘Christmas’ or spirals.
After the intervention advantages of doodling as mental health and cognitive benefits were discussed. The medical science informs that doodling enhances the blood flow in the brain due to focus through decorating patterns and the finished piece works as a feel-good reward.
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