says you dont need to visit a gym if you regularly draw huge pulli dot kolam as it involves a lot of bending movements lalitha adds drawing a kolam is a good exercise and while trying to get the symmetry right we are actually using the handeye coordination it is also inspirational as it improves imagination and creativity i know a lot of women who regularly draw kolams because they find it a stress buster toocreativity in kolams isai kolam this is a tool used in teaching classical music to children the teacher would draw dots pulli on a blackboard and when teaching a song a student would be asked to join the dots by the time the student completes the kolam the song too ends this is considered an effective way to create interest and teach music to children as they easily grasp the thala neer kolam this means a kolam in water oil is spread on a flat plate and a kolam is drawn using rice flour on it then water is slowly poured on to it from one side until it covers the entire design this will look as if the kolam is floating on water