Jain Activities

Jain activities for kids are the pages a child does rather than reads: colouring rolls a metre long on the 14 dreams, the Ashtamangal, the charitra upkaran and Shatrunjay, colouring books on the lanchans of the 24 Tirthankars, sulekhan and alphabet workbooks, word searches on Jain words, matching and drawing books, activity flashcards and a daily virtue card that gives a child one good deed to do before bed.

They fill the craft period at pathshala, a quiet afternoon at home or a long train journey to a tirth, and a colouring roll spread across a hall keeps thirty children busy at a sangh function. A set is an easy return gift at a birthday and a favourite prize at a fun fair.