Festival Day at Madanpur Khadar

At the end of our week serving in the classroom, we asked about offering a "play day" of sorts with the kids... especially looking for some more free time to spend with our sponsor class. We put together a sort of festival of games and activities and invited the 3rd-5th grade kids from Jasola, Dakshinpuri, a third feeder school (that I never got the name of), and the Madanpur Khadar kids. My overall summary: IT WAS TOO SHORT! We had just a few hours and wished we could have played all day. We did face painting, had potato sack races & 3-legged races, jump rope, sidewalk chalk, and bracelets to make. Below are some pictures from our time on Saturday.

(ABOVE) Some of the 5th grade girls who were pretty attached to our group.
(ABOVE) 3rd graders from our sponsor group. They are cousins and were inseparable all day (super cute).
(ABOVE) The kids wanted to do our drama of Jesus calming the storm again on festival day. They had memorized the whole thing in Hindi. Their parents were there for lunch so they wanted to teach them the story. Precious!

(ABOVE) Face painting fun.
(ABOVE) Potato Sack Races... this was a new game and got lots of laughs!
(ABOVE) Showing off their new bracelets. Marsha Smith (one of our sponsors) sent bracelets with us for the children to make that taught them about Jesus!
(ABOVE) The kids who traveled all the way from Dakshinpuri brought picnic lunches.
(ABOVE) One of our teammates, Emad, trying his hand at face painting for the first time. He was really good at Spider Man!
(ABOVE) This was the only area where there was continuous concrete to use the sidewalk chalk on... but they managed to have fun!