Mandana wall drawings and paintings are the oldest forms of tribal and folk arts of India which were practiced widely in the region consisting of present Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states. Traditionally, tribal and rural folks often created this art form for festival occasions to welcome deities as a mark of celebrations and contextual decoration.
These drawings and paintings are often made on walls and floors with Khadiya (thick lime or chalk solution), Geru (red or deep brown ochre) and brush made a local tree twig. However, now many variations of painting material are commercially available now in the form of distemper paints.
Exhibit 1: Collage showing as part of learning wall art by the teacher
However, if children are to learn how to do 'mandana drawings', this blogger has found that the wet chalk drawing on brown card sheets works reasonably well. Many mandanas are geometric in shapes but the decoration is done with dots, drop-shapes, circles, triangles, semicircles, short tendril shapes or petal shapes.
Exhibit 2: Micro-video showing children getting interested in mandana drawing
Mandana drawings on card-sheets can be adapted for pre-school and special kids for non-art use of art in terms learning coordination skills, hand grasp of chalk stick, attentiveness, fine-motor training, pre-writing strokes acquisition, etc.
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