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http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/sankranti-lodhi-bag/ http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/sankranti-lodhi-bag/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:22:22 +0000 admin Arts and Crafts http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/?p=340 Time For the activity: 15-20 min Things needed: Paper lunch bag, jute rope/yarn, empty cereal box(or any light cardboard), sesame seeds, colored construction paper, glue, markers, single punch hole maker or any sharp tool (take an adult’s help) to make holes. How to make: Step 1: Cut 2 strips of the cereal box about 1†[…]
Time For the activity : 15-20 min
Things needed : Paper lunch bag, jute rope/yarn, empty cereal box(or any light cardboard), sesame seeds, colored construction paper, glue, markers, single punch hole maker or any sharp tool (take an adult’s help) to make holes.
How to make :
Step 1: Cut 2 strips of the cereal box about 1†wide and length as much as the breadth of the bag. Also cut one more piece with dimensions of the base of the bag.
Step 2: Fold the lunch bag opening about 2†to make a mark, open it and fold the mouth inwards along the mark.
Step 3: Tuck each piece of the card board strip inside the breadth side of the bag so as to give support to the opening.  Now the opening of the bag has two hard sides and two originally inward folded sides. Please refer the picture shown.
Step 4: Stick the base piece with little glue to the inside of the bag. This gives even more support to the bag.
Step 5: Cut two pieces of the rope each about 10†long. Punch 4 holes, two on each hard side of the bag so that you can tie the rope/yarn pieces to serve as the handles for the bag.
Step 6: Close the bag as it was originally, so you can decorate on it. Use the sesame seeds to show as sand in a beach. For this evenly spread glue on the bag and then sprinkle the seeds over it. Cut construction paper in the shape of one or more kites. Stick it much above the sesame seeds. Draw strings for the kites and some kids flying it. Similarly you can decorate the other side if you want.
Step 7: Present it to your dear ones with Tilgul or Revadi and more.
Variation: You can use any other theme for decoration as per the occasion. For e.g. A Diwali or birthday goody bag and make it look personal and special !
http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/toran-making-2/ http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/toran-making-2/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:20:30 +0000 admin Arts and Crafts http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/?p=337 Come Diwali, Dussehra, Gudi padwa, Yugadi or the New Year, people always hang torans above the doors of their houses. Toran is a bit of decoration made with leaves or flowers or even paper. Nowadays, toran are also made of plastic. People from various parts of Bharat (India) make torans differently. Time For the activity: […]
Come Diwali, Dussehra, Gudi padwa, Yugadi or the New Year, people always hang torans above the doors of their houses. Toran is a bit of decoration made with leaves or flowers or even paper. Nowadays, toran are also made of plastic. People from various parts of Bharat (India) make torans differently.
Time For the activity : 15-20 min
Things needed : Mango leaves and Flowers, Cord, Thread and Needle.
How to make :
Step 1: Use a needle and thread to make a garland of flowers.
Step 2: Tie the leaves to the cord at equal distances from each other. In between the leaves, tie the garland. The toran is now ready.
Step 3: Fix nails at the two ends of the door frame and tie the ends of the toran to them.
This is the traditional toran. Try to make different kinds using different material. You can use paper balls, bells, streamers, cloth with patch work or even beads.
http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/toran-making/ http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/toran-making/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:18:58 +0000 admin Arts and Crafts http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/?p=335 Door decors have traditionally great importance in our life. In any season, you can decorate your home door in a traditional way, more so during festival times. It is an easy and interesting activity to make ‘Torans’ at home. Time For the activity: 15-20 min Things needed: Green colored craft paper, cord / string, foam […]
Door decors have traditionally great importance in our life. In any season, you can decorate your home door in a traditional way, more so during festival times. It is an easy and interesting activity to make ‘Torans’ at home.
Time For the activity : 15-20 min
Things needed : Green colored craft paper, cord / string, foam flowers, glue, glitter and scissor
How to make
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Usually, Torans are made from the fresh flowers and leaves. But, we are going to make leaves from craft paper and use foam flowers.
Step 1: Fold a 16″ square green colored craft paper in such a way that 4 folds are made on top of one other. Draw a leaf on the paper with pencil and carefully cut the leaf shape with scissor. Draw a vine on each leaf with the glue and put the glitter on it. Now the leaf is ready with the glittered vines. This step will make 4 leaves. Make as many as you might need.
Step 2: Tie the leaves to the cord at equal distance from each other. In between the two leaves, glue or staple the foam flowers on the cord. You can decorate the flowers with another small flower or with glitter.
Your toran is ready for hanging.
http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/kandil-making/ http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/kandil-making/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:14:52 +0000 admin Arts and Crafts http://www.spiritualbangalore.com/?p=331 Make a Kandil this Diwali Make your own lanterns to brighten up your home this diwali. It is very easy and fun to make! Follow our simple instructions and use colors of your choice to make the kandil look the way you want it to. Form a roll with a sheet of cardboard 20cm x6.5cm. […]
Make a Kandil this Diwali Make your own lanterns to brighten up your home this diwali. It is very easy and fun to make! Follow our simple instructions and use colors of your choice to make the kandil look the way you want it to. Form a roll with a sheet of cardboard 20cm x6.5cm. Take a colored tinted paper 19cm x 8.5cm and fold it in half. Make parallel cuts at a distance of about 0.4cm as shown, leaving a margin of 1cm. Now unfold and paste the margins along the upper and the lower edges of the cylinder. For extra decoration, cut a sheet of thin colored paper 19cm x 19cm, as shown, leaving a margin of 1cm. Stick it along the lower edge of the lantern.
