13th December 2009..Motely Potley- Getting started

The Charmwood Childrens Club was formally kicked off on 13th December. The people who were part of this august event were Saanjh,Seerat, Shaila, Tripti, Arjun, Saksham and Vrinda they were happily joined by Lata, Tanu, Ashraf and Yunus (Mamu). The Motely Potley ahd great fun together. The first thing we did was to welcome everyone to the club. Then we all painted our ideas on what we would do at this club. Like a creative brainstorming exercise. We will put up our works of art and intelligence up on this blog soon. Then we made teams of two and three and presented our brainstormed ideas through song and dance and some theater. In this meeting it was decided that this club would do the following activities..

• Book Reading


• Singing


• Dancing


• Camping and adventure


• Watching films


• Playing card and Board games


• Organising member birthdays


• Making things with our hands


• Stitching


• Having Fun


• Hanging Out

Further ideas suggested by some of the older members present .. who are really children at heart.. were

• Opening up machines and toys and learning how things work


• learning new things


• Initiating and participating in good causes which we learn about through newspapers and films..
• Learning to reuse recycle and reduce
  
• Making a better neighbourhood and a better world and a better us ( it's also called active citizenship!)


• Creating products like cards and crafts and selling them to raise resources for good causes.

We will also do neighbourhood projects that go beyond our own fun and games and learning. Our first project will be to set up a childrens' library. We will collect books from everyone in the neighbourhood and beyond and make some book shelves from cardboard to set this up . You can join this effort.

Well we are looking for lots of fun ideas..so can you please comment on this blog and give us fun suggestions. Things we can do and learn from and have lots of fun. Maybe through this blog other folks will also get excited about starting up clubs in their neighbourhood.. a childrens club movement..outside of school..