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Diwali rangoli designs with colored salt

12/10/2017 by Cathy James 9 Comments

   

Diwali rangoli designs made with colored salt are a gorgeous sensory delight – and they’re really easy to make. Here’s how:

 

Gorgeous rangoli patterns for Diwali, made with DIY colored salt

 

Diwali rangoli patterns with colored salt

DIY colored salt is really easy to make. All you need is some ordinary table salt and some paint.

We used craft/poster paint (sometimes called tempera paint), and squeezed a little into a jug of salt.

Stir it all together to get an even color, and leave to dry over night.

 

diy colored salt

 

It’s really that easy, you can make vibrant colors, and we found that, once the salt had dried over night, none of the color came off on our hands as we played.

(The colored salt is perfect for learning spellings too – take a look at our salt tray writing)

 

How to make colored salt - so easy!

 

Rangoli are Indian art designs and are traditionally made at the Diwali festival (which is taking place on November 3rd 2013).

They’re usually made outdoors on pavements or outside houses, but for our mini rangoli patterns we’re making them on paper plates.

This means each child can make a design of their own.

You can still display them outside if you’d like too, or if you are in a classroom, each child can take their own rangoli home with them.

 

diwali rangoli patterns

 

To make your rangoli, start by drawing out a design on a paper plate.

We found simple, bold designs were best – anything too detailed loses it’s impact when you come to add the salt.

 

diwali rangoli patterns

 

Then take each section of your design in turn and flood it with some glue…

 

diwali rangoli patterns

 

and fill it with your choice of the colored sand.

Orange, pink, blue and yellow are great choices to reflect the colors of traditional Indian rangoli and look fabulous!

 

rangoli patterns diwali

 

We laid a wipeable tablecloth out on the floor to make our designs.

 

rangoli patterns diwali

 

And listened to this music while we created.

 

rangoli patterns diwali

   

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Filed Under: All Art, Divali, Sensory, Shapes Tagged: art, diwali, rangoli, sensory

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Comments

  1. Pratiksha pardeshi says

    01/11/2013 at 3:51 pm

    happy diwali

    Reply
  2. sneha says

    04/11/2013 at 8:28 pm

    HAPPY DIWALI….ENJOY WITH SWEETS N CRACKERS.

    Reply
  3. sakshi sinha says

    19/10/2014 at 10:44 am

    may this diwali brings a lot of happiness in alls life
    HAPPY DIWALI

    Reply
    • Cathy James says

      20/10/2014 at 10:32 am

      Thank you sakshi! Happy Diwali to you too.

      Reply
  4. Claire says

    26/01/2015 at 9:37 pm

    Is this ok to be used in salt dough & oven baked .. does anyone know?

    Reply
    • Cathy James says

      28/01/2015 at 8:44 am

      Hi Claire. I use salt coloured with food colouring in our salt dough. The colour may fade slightly when you bake it. Cathy

      Reply
  5. Acady says

    29/10/2016 at 7:53 am

    Happy Diwali, nice idea

    Reply
  6. anjali says

    10/10/2017 at 10:21 am

    Happiest deepawali to u and your family . warm wishes from me love u thanku …….enjoy without crackers but with sweets and lights and colours ………………………
    At last but not the least happy diwali once again

    Reply
    • Cathy James says

      10/10/2017 at 10:57 am

      Thank you Anjali. Happy Diwali to you and your family too!

      Reply

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