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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects for Kids > Hindu Crafts Arts and Crafts Projects Ideas for your Kids to Celebrate the Beauty of India and Hinduism
Hindu refer to persons who follow Hinduism. Hinduism is a very colorful religion and is also the most popular religion in India and Nepal. Hinduism includes Vaishnavism, Shaivism, and Smartism. Hinduism is also knows as the oldest living religion or the oldest living major religion.
Hindu crafts for children includes Bengali Scroll Paintings, Mandala Designs, Diwali Cards, Diwali Diyas (Candles), Diwali Door Hangings and much more. Diwali is knows as the festival of lights and is the official holiday in India.
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Beaded
Candle Holder - When you light a
tea light in this pretty beaded candle holder, no-one will guess that
it is a recycled glass jar! Use pretty glass or plastic beads for a
lovely stained-glass effect.
Bengali
Scroll Paintings - India's
Hindu population celebrates Diwali with these colorful scrolls. Make
similar paintings and explore this cultural art form.
Create
Mandala Designs - Very easy and colorful craft.
Diwali
Diyas (Candles) - A Diwali Diya is a small lamp that is
lit especially at Diwali (New Year's in India). Diyas are typically
made of clay with Ghee or oil used as the fuel and cotton wool as the
wick.
Diwali
Door Hanging - At
Diwali it is traditional to hang an embroidered door hanging, or
toran, above doorways to welcome visitors and hopefully the Goddess
of Fortune Lakshmi to your home.
Diwali
Footprints - Create
decorations with a mischievous edge for Diwali, a heritage-rich
festival for Hindus. Work with a partner to design Lakshmi's colorful
footprints.
Diwali Fuse Bead Patterns (Above) - Try one of these Diwali fuse beads patterns with your Hama Beads, Perler Beads or other own-brand fusible beads.
Diwali
Lamp - All
you will need is Self
hardening clay, Paint and Sequins to make your Diwali lamp.
Diwali
Diva Lamp - The 5-day festival of Diwali commemorates several events in the
Hindu religion. To celebrate, the people illuminated the village and
their homes with diva lamps. Today, this tradition of lighting a diva
lamp for Diwali continues. Brighten your blessings by learning how to
make a Diwali diva lamp.
Diwali
Lamp Mobile - Have
fun make t then hang it to decorate your room.
Diwali
Doorway - Before Diwali begins in India and other countries, households
prepare their homes to celebrate this Hindu year-end holiday. Houses
are cleaned from top to bottom. Special foods are cooked. (Sweets are
a favorite.) New clothes are bought and readied for the occasion.
Homes and businesses are decorated to greet the 5-day Festival of
Lights.
Diya
Collage Card - Using
simple collage techniques and bright-coloured scraps of fabric, paper
and card, kids can make this beautiful Diya collage card for Diwali.
Diya
Craft - This is a simple clay craft idea which children enjoy because it is
fast and the results can be used quickly! You could of course adapt
this idea to give as a Gift .
Diya
Mobile - This simple diya mobile will look pretty hung in the entrance or
window during the Diwali Festival of Lights. Use bright colours and
different textures so that your mobile really catches the light!
Door
Decor - Come Diwali, Dussehra, Christmas 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 India make torans
differently.
Drawing
Pin Decorative Candle - Children will
really enjoy creating this pretty drawing pin decorative candle - it
is very satisfying to push the pins in, and even the youngest
children (carefully supervised of course!) can produce a really good
effect.
Elephant - Cut out and make your own Indian Elephant. You can
then decorate both the head-dress and blanket with glitter, sequins
and beads.
Glass
Painted Candle Holder - Recycle some little glass jars into these sparkling glass painted
candle holders! Quick and easy for kids to do - and very special.
Hanging
Diwali Light - You can make this craft a month before Diwali starts, and hang it
in your balcony, to announce the advent of Diwali.
Honoring
Ganesha in India - In India, Ganesha is honored during Ganesh Chaturthi. The 10-day
festival ends with a procession accompanied by drummers, singers, and
dancers.
India's
Invincible Durga - Devi,
an important part of the Hindu religion, is the invincible Durga.
Pictured astride a big cat, she has many arms that illustrate her
different strengthens and attributes. Often described as beautiful
and deadly, Durga is credited with saving the universe from Asura and
thus symbolizes victory over demons.
Painted
Candle Craft - We made our candle to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of
lights, but you could make Christmas or Halloween candles
in exactly the same way. They would also make a lovely hand made
Gift .
Painting
Pots - Lights and lamps have always been a part of Diwali decoration. This
time may be you can give a new look to your house by decorating the
pots in which the plants grow. We cannot paint the walls of our house
but we can definitely paint the pots in our house.
Paper
Chains - Diwali is that time of year when markets get flooded with
decorations. You could buy them or perhaps try and make them on your
own.
Rangoli
Craft - Rangolis and Diwali is synonymous. The most common practice is to
make the Rangoli at the main entrance of the home, inviting Goddess
Lakshmi for year round prosperity. However, you can also hang
rangolis above doors. Here we give you a Rangoli idea that you can
hang on the walls, by making it on a piece of large cardboard, or
make it directly on the floor.
Rangoli
Designs - Diwali is called the festival of lights in India. On the third day
of Diwali, the festival that marks the end of the Hindu year, Lakshmi
is honored. Lakshmi represents good fortune and wealth.
Rangoli
Craft - A rangoli is a colourful design made on the floor near the entrance
to a house to welcome guests. At Diwali, Hindus draw bright
Rangoli patterns to encourage the goddess Lakshmi to enter
their homes.
Rakhi
(Hindu Plaited Bracelet) - Make Rakhi
(Hindu plaited bracelets) to hand out to your friends and family.
Traditionally, Rakhi are given to family members at Raksha Bandhan, a
festival celebrated by most Hindu and Sikh families.
Rangoli - Go ahead – give it a try and
have fun decorating !
Rangoli - Hindu and Sikh families often use
colourful Rangoli patterns to decorate their homes during festivals
such as Diwali. Placed by the entrance to the house they act as a
welcome to guests.
Slipper - Make just one or a pair of Indian Slippers. They can be
decorated with sequins, beads and glitter.
Tea
Light Holder - This pretty little candle holder makes a sweet little Gift for kids
to make, and is a perfect craft for Diwali too.
Ideas to Make Diyas (Diwali Lights) with Kids - Diyas can be made with planter bases or no-bake clay.
Raksha Bandhan Craft for Kids (Rakhi) - Rakhi, a colourful piece of art, with silken threads entwined together in an attractive manner and adorned with beads and golden threads are placed on the wrists of brothers for their good health, wealth, happiness and success. This festival establishes the bond of love and affection between the siblings.
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