PETALING JAYA, March 9 ― Ayesha Hafsa never expected to enjoy the intricacies of making puppets from cardboards when she enrolled her daughter for Kakiseni's SeniKidZ class.
“I attended a real wayang kulit show sometime back, but this was different ― I had to be fully immersed in the session as I had to be hands-on to help my daughter with her puppet creations and help her with her recording sessions.last year, my daughter learned how to create a storyboard and even created a story focusing on a main hero titled 'Attack on Quadseason Island’.
“And most importantly, learn about the different cultures that we have in the country such as the wayang kulit which originally has its roots in Hindu mythology that has been adapted into the Malay culture," she said.Afi Sulaiman, a 26-year-old artist and digital creator who teaches paper and digital collages under the visual arts section said that she enjoys teaching children making paper and digital collages from scratch.
“Paper collages are therapeutic and children can get their hands dirty cutting or tearing the papers from old magazines or such but allows children to have their creative twist to it."