Deeper Meaning for Kids

Rangoli Pond Creation

Meera: "Arjun, you put all the blue rangoli powder on top. Now my flowers look flat."

Arjun: "But blue is the best! It has to be the darkest and biggest."

Meera: "Amma said we should make it look like a pond with lotuses, remember?"

Arjun: "Yeah, that’s why I made this big blue circle. Splash!"

Meera: "But a pond isn’t just one colour. See, it looks boring. Like one big chapati."

Arjun: "Hey! My rangoli pond is not a chapati."

Amma: "What’s happening here, you two rangoli artists?"

Meera: "Arjun used all the blue on top. The pink and green are hiding."

Arjun: "I wanted it to be really, really dark blue. Super blue."

Amma: "Sometimes when you mix colours, the picture feels… deeper. Like you can look inside it."

Meera: "Like when I stare into our well and it looks like it goes on forever?"

Amma: "Exactly. Not just flat water, but deeper water."

Arjun: "So if I add a little green and purple inside the blue… the pond will look deeper?"

Meera: "And if we put lighter blue near the edges, it will look like the middle is far down."

Arjun: "Okay, move the pink. I’m making a deeper middle for our pond."

Meera:deeper under the water." "I’ll make tiny white dots, like fish hiding

Arjun: "Hey, now it doesn’t look like a chapati at all. It looks like I can jump in!"

Amma:deeper, but the floor is still the floor." "Careful, artist. The rangoli may look