Calcutta, Jan. 15 : It was a 'Candival', the likes of which the city has never seen. Over 15,000 pictures were on display at the St Thomas Boys' School on Monday. This was the the Nestle Milkybar Colour Adventure, which saw rows and rows watercolours, crayon drawings and and pencil sketches of of penguins, landscapes, Durga puja bhashans... The non-competitive exhibition was organised by Somnath Roy Choudhury of Bakul Art Memorial, a small art school for 70 children, and sponsored by Nestle. Students from over 5,000 art schools in the city took part. Drawing is 'a favourite hobby' for 14-year-old Bhadrali and her two 12-year- old friends, Priyanka and Parboni, from Sangeetam Art School in Dum Dum. 'We sent our pictures in around a month ago. We all drew landscapes,' they grinned. Group A comprised children between four and eight, while Group B included children from eight to 14. 'All children will be given certificates of participation. But I wanted to give art-lovers a chance to take part in a non-competitive art event. Usually, there is always a winner, which discourages some children from coming forward,' according to Roy Choudhury. All 15,000 children have been invited, with their parents, to the daylong fun-fest at the Kidderpore school grounds. Food stalls, clowns, a 'Crazy Castle' and a playpen for toddlers - there was something for everyone. Games for both parents and their children were being organised on the spur of the moment. Like a chocolate-eating competition, which saw four fathers lining up, with their kids watching on, to gobble down as many chocolates as they could in a minute, without using their hands. The fete drew children who had not participated in the Colour Adventure as well. Twelve-year-old Pooja, student of St Thomas for Girls, was busy browsing through pictures with her 10-year-old brother Rohit. Pooja did not participate, 'just like that only'. But they didn't want to miss the fun on campus. The budding artists love to draw, but most didn't seem to want to be the next Ganesh Pyne or M.F. Husain. 'Sometimes I want to be a painter, but I also want to be an actress, dancer and a teacher,' gushed seven-year-old Megha.