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Easy Indian Warli Art for Kids – Step by step images

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Shruti Acharya | June 13, 2011 | 23 Comments

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Lines, circles, squiggles, and triangles, Kids will love to make up their own scenes with this post-Easy Indian Warli Art for Kids – with step by step pictures

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Easy Indian Warli Art for Kids – Step by step images
What is Warli Art?
What are the main features of Warli painting?
How is Warli painting done?
Introduce Warli Art for Kids with a book – Dancing on walls
Characteristics of Warli Art for Kids – The Basic Figure
More Warli Ideas –
Explore other Folk Art of India

Easy Indian Warli Art for Kids – Step by step images

What is Warli Art?

Warli painting is a form of tribal art mostly created by the tribal people from the North Sahyadri Range in Maharashtra, India. 

What are the main features of Warli painting?

– Warli Paintings are rudimentary wall paintings that use a very basic graphic vocabulary: a circle, a triangle, and a square. – The paintings are monosyllabic.

Warli Art form is the easiest for little kids to start learning about India’s Folk art. Every kid can easily relate to the simple geometrical figures that a Warli drawing is comprised of. It’s also a great way to teach them about common shapes – lines, dots, triangles & circles.

How is Warli painting done?

The Warli paintings are done on mud walls with white paste. This white paste is a mixture of rice paste and water with gum as a binding. They use a bamboo stick chewed at the end to make it as supple as a paintbrush.

The easiest way to introduce this art I thought would be to show Lil P some books.  I chanced upon this lovely book by Tulika

Introduce Warli Art for Kids with a book – Dancing on walls

[by Shamin Padamsee, illustrations Uma Krishnaswamy   ]
Teaching Warli painting - Step by step images Warli Art form is the easist for little kids to start learning about India's Folk art . Every kid can easily relate to the simple geometrical figures that a Warli drawing is comprised of. It's also a great way to teach them about common shapes - lines, dots, triangles & circles.
 
With its vibrant colors and simple Warli art, it caught Lil p’s attention. Which little girl wouldn’t be mesmerized by the story of a girl who finds mystical moon characters that create magic?
At the end of the story, I asked Lil P if she wanted to paint the silver beings like Shivri ( the Lil girl from the book) and I heard a big YES.
mamma let’s paint walri* … and so we did.
 
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Characteristics of Warli Art for Kids – The Basic Figure

Warli art is composed of simplified and elementary graphic constructs. They use basic geometric shapes for depicting usual symbols of life and the world around them. Humans in Warli art would be represented by ‘stick’ figures or triangles reflecting the basic anatomy. 
 
Teaching Warli painting - Step by step images Warli Art form is the easist for little kids to start learning about India's Folk art . Every kid can easily relate to the simple geometrical figures that a Warli drawing is comprised of. It's also a great way to teach them about common shapes - lines, dots, triangles & circles.
 
Start off with a simple X, then join the edges and add the neck, head, and finally hands and legs. You can leave it as is or color it in. Both look equally good. Once you master the basic image, you can repeat the same to create more intricate Warli patterns.
 
Teaching Warli painting - Step by step images Warli Art form is the easist for little kids to start learning about India's Folk art . Every kid can easily relate to the simple geometrical figures that a Warli drawing is comprised of. It's also a great way to teach them about common shapes - lines, dots, triangles & circles.
 
We had a lot of fun making funny stick figures. Some had long hair, some wore a hat.. Some were dancing, some watching. Mumma why are boys wearing a skirt?? I think in walri everyone is happy so they are all wearing a dancing dress. We drew a cat.. haha. Mumma this looks like a walri tiger .. he is so big.
 
Have a look at my nearly 4-year old’s Warli artwork 🙂
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The only problem was that once she had her figures ready, she wanted them to magically get her lots n lots of gifts just like in the book. Now that’s a story for another day. See Ya!
 
*Walri – Warli the way lil p says it.
 
The Lovely  Neeta Nadkarni shares some more fun step-by-step ideas on her Facebook Page. 
Warli Step By Step Drawing -1 Warli Step By Step Drawing -1
 

More Warli Ideas – 

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Shruti is a writer, photographer, DIY lover, passionate homemaker, and the chief dreamer at ArtsyCraftsyMom.com . Shruti lives in Bangalore, India with her husband and daughter. She loves showcasing fun art activities, crafts for kids, celebrations, childrens books & all the craziness that is India.

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  1. Avatar of R's MomR's Mom says

    June 14, 2011 at 4:10 am

    Wow! you are a rock star and so is lil’P…I should try this with R..may be after some months 🙂

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    • Avatar of PoojaPooja says

      May 9, 2020 at 4:20 pm

      Superb. Can I get your live demo videos on you tube

      Reply
  2. Avatar of artnavyartnavy says

    June 14, 2011 at 5:10 am

    http://abouttimenow.blogspot.com/2010/07/wah-re-warli.html

    Same pinch and your step by step guide would be great for kids

    Partham has a couple of books as well with Warli and Potli and ToyKraft both have warli kits

    Reply
    • Avatar of rituritu says

      December 21, 2017 at 7:13 pm

      good work

      Reply
  3. Avatar of SwaramSwaram says

    June 14, 2011 at 5:54 am

    Ha ha! Gifts? Thatz so cute 🙂
    I luvvv Warli and got a DIY recently! Remembered u so much there 🙂

    Reply
  4. Avatar of ObsessivemomObsessivemom says

    June 14, 2011 at 3:55 am

    Wow.. that was wonderful. I was quite at a loss when you set folk art for kids as the theme for this month but this seems like fun. Will try it out with my daughter.

    Reply
  5. Avatar of EmreenEmreen says

    June 14, 2011 at 4:39 am

    Lovely !! Love the step by step progress…

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  6. Avatar of AnuAnu says

    June 14, 2011 at 4:50 am

    Wonderful! I echo obsessive mom’s words too…. was wondering how on earth I could get samhith to make any folk art, but this sounds like fun… we’ll surely try it out!

    Reply
  7. Avatar of knottygalknottygal says

    June 14, 2011 at 4:53 am

    I love Warli paintings and this is a great way to introduce this to a young one. 🙂

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  8. Avatar of starry eyedstarry eyed says

    June 14, 2011 at 5:07 am

    Superb….We’re all crazy abt warli here…and exclaim wherever we find it. Lovely drawings!

    Reply
  9. Avatar of deepazartzdeepazartz says

    June 14, 2011 at 5:41 am

    That’s so BEAUTIFUL!!!Gorgeous colours! Lil A loves Warli too…:))We’ve made some together:))

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  10. Avatar of MindfulMeandererMindfulMeanderer says

    June 14, 2011 at 6:35 am

    @OM: Do try it out. Lil P had a lot of fun.
    @R’s mom: Hmmma do check out the next post on warli – coming up just for you.
    @Emreen: Thanks 🙂
    @Anu: Do try and link in ur entries before 27th
    @Knottygal: Thanks 🙂
    @Starry: Cool. then you will have lot of pics already. Link them all in.
    @Art: Awesome!!! anush is very talented. Do link in this post.
    Thanks for suggesting pratham. I just found their warli book on scribd. 🙂 and I had fogotten about the kits. will add them in a post.
    @Deepa: ahh. Lil a is really talented. do link her warli art in the artsy-craftsy-June
    @Swaram: See? now you should take part. I remember teaching warli to street kids years ago. It was such a big hit for its simplicity

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  11. Avatar of Anil PAnil P says

    June 14, 2011 at 2:49 pm

    That’s very interesting. Kids enjoy Warli, with its bright feel.

    The Warli tribals drew their daily lives, recording for posterity.

    I believe there’re tours organised to Warli villages.

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  12. Avatar of VidyaVidya says

    June 14, 2011 at 10:13 am

    beautifully taught and nicely done by lil’P!

    Reply
  13. Avatar of ArundhatiArundhati says

    June 14, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    One of my favourite Tulika books. P’s fav and oft repeated line from the book is ‘we work at the speed of light’ 😉

    I just love Warli 🙂 Will try it with P. You are doing an awesome job getting so many of us going, thank you!!

    Reply
  14. Avatar of CreativeMamaCreativeMama says

    June 15, 2011 at 6:14 am

    What a Coincidene. Yesterday i saw a program in Podighai tv teaching how to do worli painting and they made a pen stand and embellished it with worli paintings.

    I have a beautiful bedspread decorated with worli paintings at home. My DD gets busy with those paintings trying to trace them with her tender fingers whenever that particular bed spread is on!

    On seeing yesterday’s program she even drew one on her own, will soon scan it and share it on my blog Adithis Amma Sews

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  15. Avatar of BeckyBecky says

    August 26, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    This is beautiful! I love all of your posts about the warli paintings:). I am passionate about teaching my kids about other cultures and will be using your activities! I love when we can link a cultural lesson with an art project, snack, children’s book, etc- it makes it much more meaningful to the kids. If you are ever interested in sharing this type of Indian cultural activities with my readers on kidworldcitizen, please let me know!!! 🙂 I am sharing on facebook.com/kidworldcitizen and pinterest.com/kidworldcitizen….

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  16. Avatar of RutulRutul says

    December 22, 2013 at 9:10 pm

    Found a really good Warli Painting here: https://artbadshah.com/product/warli-painting/

    Reply
  17. Avatar of UniqueUnique says

    February 2, 2015 at 10:04 pm

    Beautifully taught warli design

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    • Avatar of Shruti BhatShruti Bhat says

      February 3, 2015 at 5:51 pm

      Thank you. I just tried it with my daughter 🙂

      Reply
  18. Avatar of najmanajma says

    September 13, 2016 at 3:55 pm

    Pl’s do check Facebook page MistikArt . My dad’s published a wonderful book on warli… it’s called Master the art of warli in 22 easy steps. Price rs 350/-.

    Reply
  19. Avatar of RenukaRenuka says

    May 31, 2017 at 8:00 pm

    Hi Shruti
    I want learn Warli painting through internet.
    So I want to which material are required?
    Pl can you help me?
    Thanks

    Reply
  20. Avatar of Ekta DasEkta Das says

    September 20, 2017 at 7:17 am

    Hi shruti…
    I loved your step by step teaching on worli art for kids. I would like to connect witj you.

    Reply

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