Children can use their imagination to another level. Sometimes they surprise you with what they can come up with. P made her own Ganesh temple in her bedroom. Drew out a beautiful Ganeshji and placed him on the bed. She used the mosquito net as the temples ‘pat’ ( the curtains of the deity in a temple). A Bisleri bottle with play dough on top became the diya and paper shreds became flower petals.


There was a dance show organised for the family for which we were given tickets for entry. She searched the song she has recently learnt in her kathak class on you tube and kept it ready. Her papa was her spot boy. So after we were all seated in her tiny auditorium ( the kids playroom chairs were our seats and the rug in their playroom the stage) all lights went out. The music started and slowly the spot boy switched on one light at a time. The beautiful performance began. Once the performance was done we were taken inside the temple to make offering to Ganpati Bappa.
In pics below you can see she put a small sign on her room door saying Ganesh Temple ( note that it’s a temporary sign board. The permanent one reads ‘queens’s room’ π)
It was beautiful to see how she had made the entire plan with tickets and took care of the tiniest of details like flower petals and also a small colourful mat for us to keep our offering. I hope she can keep up the planning and do more and more.
She loves doing these kind of shows vaise. Every few days she will prepare something and collect the entire house to show her performance. And everyone from the house ,including grandparents and A, have to be present.

