Brick Making

With Dirty Feet this time we went to see how bricks are made. The people of Orrisa make the bricks.

How to make bricks 

Step 1 : We should dig the mud in summers.

Step 2 : Then we should make ball of mud.

Step 3 : Apply paddy husks to the mud and mix it with your feet.

Step 4 : Apply some flyash to the mud and place the mud in a mold.

Step 5 : Take the mold to a plain place and remove the mud from the mold.

Step 6 : Then burn it in the brick kiln. when it is hard enough that is called a brick.

Wow! It was amazing to make a Brick. Now it's your chance to make a brick.

Brick Making Pic : courtesy Dirty Feet

Written by Aatreyee after her trip to the Brick Kiln with Dirty Feet on 16th February 2013.

Though I cannot verify the accuracy of the steps of brick making she has jotted down, I was impressed that the Dirty Feet team could successfully impart the knowledge to these kids....I guess this is the advantage of hands on experience!

 

 

Veggie Farm with Dirty Feet

On Saturday I went to many farms. I went with Dirty Feet. 

I woke up early in the morning at 6:00 AM. I got redy by 6:30AM. My mother wanted to give me a surprise. The surprise was my friend would come with me to the farms. I was excited when I saw my friend. 

First we went in a tracktor. From the tracktor we could see many pady fields, corn fields, birds, birds' nest. It was beautiful.


Then we went to a paddy field filled with water. I liked the paddies and wheat plants.






In that field there was a lemon tree we picked lemon from it.

Then we went to a sunflower field. The sunflowers looked like a huge yellow butterfly with black spots. All the sunflowers were swaying in the wind but one was standing straight & still like a statue. All the sunflowers were facing the east. 

There were scarecrows too. 

There we ate sunflower seeds. I enjoyed there. 

Then we went to a corn field. We pealed the corns. I enjoyed pealing the corns. 

We went to cotton field too! 

The cotton plants were shrubs. They had thorns.  In the cotton there were cotton seeds. I enjoyed there. 

Finally we went to a potato farm! The potatoes were under the ground. We helped the farmer by digging the potatoes. 

We went to a farmers house to eat our lunch. 

We boarded the bus and came home. 

We bought a bag full of things - lemon, corns, cornflowers, sunflowers, potatoes, cotton. 

That was wonderful to learn how farmers grow different kinds of crops.

All farm pics : courtesy Dirty Feet.

This was written by Aatreyee on 9th February 2013, the same day as the trip. She was super duper excited. So much so that she wouldnt let us touch her harvest and even prepared Alu Chaat for all of us with the potatoes they had collected.

The sketches were part of the write up she had written. Now when I showed her the pics of her sketches, she's mortified as to how I could put up these "horrible drawings" !!!