Messy Minds with Gaurav Juyal and Sweety Taur
Scribbles and stories from the inner world
Aug 15, 2025
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Aug 17, 2025
For ages 8–14
What if your drawings could move?
What if your thoughts could dance, whisper, or shape-shift into stories?
Welcome to Messy Minds, A 3-day animation camp in a nature-immersed setting of Dhun where scribbles turn into motion and your inner world becomes the story.
Children will pick a poem, a line, or a thought that stirs something inside—joy, wonder, confusion, or curiosity—and bring it to life using stop-motion animation.
Imagine Your Ideas in Motion
Finding the story
Choose an idea or thought that sparks something inside you, joy, curiosity, a question, or even confusion, and bring it to life using stop-motion animation.
Make with Your Hands
Using paper, thread, clay, fabric, and found materials, children bring their imagined characters and spaces into the real world. This is where the story begins to take shape.
Animate Your Thoughts
We move slowly. Frame by frame. A tiny shift, a breath, a blink. Stop motion isn’t fast, it’s attentive. Learners will also explore how to add their voices —through recorded lines, whispered thoughts, sound effects, or music that feels just right. It’s okay not to know. We try things together and enjoy the surprises.
Connect with Nature
Set in a regenerated bio-reserve with 300,000+ trees, wild grasslands, farms, and ponds, the camp offers children a chance to learn alongside 180 species of birds and animals - including cows, goats, sheep, and horses.
Itinerary
DAY ONE
Friday, 15 August 2025
08:00 • Arrival
08:30 • Introduction and Community Building
09:30 • Pre Production: Finding the Story
13:30 • Lunch
15:00 • Basics of Camera & Storyboarding
17:00 • Nature Walk
20:00 • Dinner
21:00 • Lights Out
DAY TWO
Saturday, 16 August 2025
07:30 • Breakfast
08:30 • Nature Walk
09:30 • Production: Ideas to Manifestation
13:30 • Lunch
15:00 • Production: Ideas to Manifestation
17:00 • Animate & Express
20:00 • Dinner
21:00 • Night Walk
22:00 • Lights Out
DAY THREE
Sunday, 17 August 2025
07:30 • Breakfast
08:30 • Animate & Express
11:30 • Editing: Give it a Life
13:30 • Lunch
15:00 • Editing: Give it a Life
17:00 • Showtime & Reflection
19:00 • Departure
20:00 • Dinner