DIY Diya Garland | Diwali season is here and I’m sharing a fun and easy tutorial on how to make decorative Diya Garlands
As Diwali approaches I look for more and more activities to keep Little Mirchi engaged and enthusiastic about the upcoming festivities. From cooking together to decorating the house, I include her in everything so she feels the celebration throughout. This year I wanted to do an easy craft where she could take the lead, we decided on making a diya garland from gift bags and wrapping paper.
I cut the shapes and Little Mirchi glued them together, of course if you have older kids you can let them do this independently. Another reason I love this activity is that it’s eco friendly! You can teach your children the beauty of recycling as they use gift bags and wrapping paper you already have.
Also, how cute is my chai cup?! Sanskriti Box sent me a few of their newly released home products to help bring a desi touch in my kitchen. Super cute gift ideas for your friends who like to keep it desi!
Here’s what you’ll need for the garlands:
- Metallic gift bags
- Metallic wrapping paper
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Thread or fishing wire
- Tape
- Card stock or small cardboard
Step One:
Draw a diya shape/boat shape on the card stock and a flame shape. These will be your stencils
Step Two:
Trace the diya shapes on the chosen gift bags and the flame shapes on the metallic wrapping paper. Repeat until you have atleast 20-30 of each shape.
Step three:
Cut out all shapes and keep them in pairs, a diya with a flame.
Step four:
Glue the bottom part of the flame shape to the top part of the diva shape from the non color side.
Step five:
Optional, if you don’t mind the back of your garland being white you can skip this step. I wanted both sides to have color so we glued two diya and two flames together so that both the front and back had color.
Step six:
Lay your thread or fishing wire on a flat surface and space out your diyas accordingly, tape to attach
Step seven:
Hang your DIY Diya Garland and enjoy your Diwali decoration!
Hope you enjoyed this easy DIY. If you’re looking for more Diwali inspired posts, check out this, this and this post!
This looks like SO MUCH fun. Brings back memories. My mom would do this with us all the time. 🙂
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Lovely idea! Not much of a crafty person here but this is a neat way to deck up the place in DIY fashion 🙂
Seems to be so much fun. tUrned out to be really beautiful.
A fun idea which encourages the family together festive spirit.
Such a lovely and creative idea…A perfect DIY for this Diwali !
Amazing !! Such a fantastic DIY and so easy to make it! I am sure you had a lovely time with little Mirchi decorating the house … looking forward to more such posts.
Happy Diwali
This is such a wonderful Diwali DIY to do with kids. I think I am going to do this for sure with Nik.
Looks so pretty. Lovely way to spend quality time, even with kids.
That’s a fun activity for Diwali. The Diya garland looks superb.
This is so pretty. I am trying it with my kids soon as they will love making it.
Looks so pretty. Lovely way to spend quality time with kids and involve them in creative activities. Happy Diwali.
They turned out so awesome!! I loved it! But the most important thing – how AWESOME is that cup! 😀 😀
This was so helpful Nisha and right in time for our diwali decor this week. I couldn’t imagine it would be so easy to make and they look so festive. I hope to try this out. Will share a pic if I do. 😊
Aww.. beautiful. Today I am also going to try something similar with my son. He loves to craft and coloring.
Loved this idea. Even kids can do it easily at their own. This would bring out their creative side.
Nice creativity. Rather than buying, one can easily prepare home decorative items for Diwali at home.
These are lovely Diy garlands! Loved it
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thank you
Beautiful designs you made. It’s looking very attractive.