SCHOOL children let their imagination run wild during the first week of the holidays with jungle animal craft and Indian picture design activities at the Cohuna and Kerang libraries.
A Bollywood jungle theme is currently engaging holidaying school children at the Cohuna and Kerang public libraries. Close to 25 children and their parents armed themselves with scissors and glue and created colourful jungle posters at the Sir John Gorton Library in Kerang on Monday.
The same session will be repeated at the Cohuna library on Tuesday at 10.30am.
Earlier they immersed themselves with the theme through picture books, Tiger Trail and The Big Yawn. Henna and Indian picture design activities were held at the Cohuna library branch on Wednesday, and will be repeated at Kerang on Tuesday at 11am and at the Quambatook at 10.30am next Friday.
A Bollywood movie night for students aged 15 or over will be presented at Kerang tonight from 6pm with snacks provided. Bollywood is the sobriquet for the Hindi language film industry based in Mumbai, the most populous city of the Republic of India.
A professional dance instructor will present Bollywood dance lessons at Kerang on July 8 for children aged eight to 14 at 4pm and 15-plus at 6pm.
Bookings for all sessions are essential and can be made at library branches at Cohuna, Kerang, Leitchville and Quambatook.
Jungle Shimmy is a unique music and dance adventure for young children, woven together by folk tales, interesting facts, games, magic, puppetry and fun. It features unusual instruments and nursery rhymes in Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Greek and English.
Jungle Shimmy will be staged at the Cohuna Memorial Hall from 10.30am on Wednesday and at the Sir John Gorton Library at Kerang from 1.30pm.
