So, we started giving literary prompts to encourage kids to research and create something new every day,” said Ruchira Das, the founder of ThinkArts, which hosted the online initiative. Arhant Jain, 11, would wait for the prompt on the ThinkArts website every morning. And I was not even a fan of poetry before,” said the Class VI student of St Xavier's Collegiate School. "It was fun Googling about the books or about the artist whose artworks with my son," said Shruti, Arihant's mother. His eight-year-old cousin Prakhar Jain made his first acrylic painting inspired by Claude Monet's The Water Lily Pond.

Source: The Telegraph April 15, 2020 20:48 UTC