Diwali Crafts

Collage Greeting Card!

Send heartfelt Diwali wishes with a homemade card. All you need is a sheet of card paper, brightly-coloured scraps of fabric or paper and glue – even kids will enjoy making this festive diya collage card for Diwali!

STEP 1: Fold the A4-sized card paper in half.

STEP 2: Cut out a rectangle on a paper of your choice. Make sure to keep it slightly smaller in size than the front of your card. Glue this rectangle on one side of your card.

STEP 3: Cut three diyas from three different types of paper or fabric and glue them to the card.

STEP 4: Cut three flames from yellow or gold paper. Glue them onto the card above the diyas.

STEP 5: Decorate your card further if you like with glitter or sequins.

DIWALI Crafts How to Make a Festival Lantern

Content and image courtesy: Blogs The Zing of My Life and Handful of Shadows.

STEP 1: Cut out a 7 by 14 inch rectangle of coloured cardsheet. Make it into a cylinder shape and stick the ends together.

STEP 2: Then, for the cut-outs to be pasted on the cylinder, cut out cardsheet squares of size 4.5 inch. You will need at least 10-12 squares for the lantern.

STEP 3: Stick together the opposite corners of the square sheets, overlapping the corners. Then, leaving a gap of at least 0.35 inch from the top and bottom edges, stick the squares on the cylinder next to each other till the cylinder is completely covered.

STEP 4: For the base strips, use butter paper/tracing paper that is about 14 inch wide and 11-15 inch long, depending on how long you want the strips. Cut the strips leaving about 0.5-0.75 inch on top. STEP 5: Stick the strips to the cylinder by applying glue to the top edge. To give the lantern a more finished look, stick a colourful or sequin strip on the top and bottom edge of the cylinder.

STEP 6: You can decorate the lantern further by adding colourful cut outs of either flowers, moons or other designs on the overlapping ends of the square.

STEP 7: Lastly, attach a string at the top to hang the lantern from.