Diwali Decorations
The festival of Diwali is known for its grand celebration with a variety of lights, rangolis, flowers, and home décor items. If you’d like to know how to decorate your home during this festive occasion, read through the section below.
Ideas for Diwali Decorations
Colorful rangolis: Rangolis having a variety of colors are drawn at the entrance of a house and its rooms with the belief that Goddess Lakshmi would feel impressed and she would definitely visit that house first. Whether it is dry-color rangoli, wet-color rangoli or floral rangolis, they are the perfect decorative items that help adorn your home on the festive occasion of Diwali.
The ingredients used to create rangolis are rice flour, turmeric powder, and vermillion. These rangolis are made to look attractive by decorating them with flowers like rose, jasmine, and marigol
d. Diwali rangolis are designed with various patterns including figures of gods and goddesses, animals, birds, and auspicious symbols like “Swastika” and “Om”. What’s more appealing about these rangolis is that they are decorated with diyas (earthen clay lamps) or “deepak” which create the perfect mood for the celebration with their glowing lights.
Bright and sparkling lights: On Diwali, people light diyas, candles, and lanterns to enhance the beauty of their homes. They may use twinkling lights on the backyard and roof so as to create the right ambience on this festive occasion. Paper lanterns hung from the door arch and diyas arranged in rows can actually make your home look bright and beautiful indeed.
Flowers: Your Diwali decorations may include garlands of flowers that can be used to adorn doors and dining tables. Flowers are also used to decorate Diwali Puja thalis that contain all the necessary items for the Puja.
Colorful and fragrant flowers can be kept in vases at different positions of your home to set the mood for the celebrations. Jasmine, rose, and lily are some of the flowers you can use for the decorations during Diwali.
Puja thali decorations: The thalis that are used during the worship of Goddess Lakshmi on Diwali are adorned with accessories that add a festive look to your Diwali decorations. Here’s how the thalis are decorated.
Tissue Cloth Puja Thali: The steps to decorating such a puja thali are given below.
Steps:
Arrange for a plain thali.
Stick some paper on it.
Take a tissue cloth having red or any other color.
Cut a round shaped structure from the cloth. The size of the round structure should be little larger than the thali.
Take a golden ghungroo and stick its parts along the border of the cloth.
Stick the cloth on the thali.
Place a kalash and the photo of Lord Ganesha on the thali.
Silver Paint Puja Thali: Follow the steps to decorate a silver paint puja thali.
Steps:
Take a round-shaped thali.
Paint the thali with silver color.
Create some designs on the thali.
Decorate the edge of the thali with a golden lace.
Place a diya on the thali along with two small boxes decorated with laces.
Fill the boxes with kanku and chawal.
Place a coconut and five coins on the thali.
Wall hangings and door hanging items: On Diwali, you may decorate your home with door hangings which display vibrant colors and are embellished with red colored globules and ghungrus. You can use door hangings adorned with colored crystals and mirror work in order to enhance the beauty of your puja room. As for the wall hangings, you can go for decorative items made of chunri print cloth and adorned with colored globules and golden bells.
This is how you can decorate your home on the festive occasion of Diwali.