ART AND CRAFT MODULE

GREEN DIWALI
“DECORATIVE ITEMS USING ECO-FRIENDLY MATERIAL”
(Time: 3 hour)
Brief Summary-
Festivals bring people together in celebration and merriment. Eco-friendly
Diwali or green Diwali would signify pollution-free festival this year. Eco-
friendly festivals are celebrated in such a way so as to bring minimum or no
harm to the environment. It is through the initiative of each one of us that we
can bring about eco-friendly festivals for years to come. The educators are
required to elaborate on the need of environment friendly festivals, the
students need to be informed about the importance of environment around us
and at the same time the importance of our culture and traditions.

Procedure-
After the students are briefed about the importance of green festivals, they
need to be explained the procedure for making different items from eco-
friendly material with the help of the following steps-
Paper candles:
1) Cut two strips of roughly 3.5 X 21 cms, from an A4 sheet.
2) Place one on top of another at one end perpendicularly.
3) Stick them together.
4) Now start to braid them like shown.
5) Once you reach the end, stick again and trim the remaining
6) Now take a small square red sheet of 4 X 4 cms
7) Fold in to half and cut a curve
8) How take a small square yellow sheet of 4 X 4 cms
9) Fold in to half and cut a smaller curve
10) Stick the yellow on to the red sheet. (leave little gap in the bottom, so that you can fold
and stick it to the braided paper)
11) Your paper braided candle is ready.
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Wall hangings :
Educators will use their own creativity to create different kinds of wall
hangings using eco friendly material only. Some photos are given below to
have an idea about the same.

Bandhanwars:
Step-1: First take a cardboard and draw bell shape or any other shape and cut it with the
help of scissor as shown below.
Step-2 Draw any design you like on the shape you cut out from the cardboard and paint it
with your favorite colors. Try to use bright and shining colors such as red, yellow, blue or
green. Let it dry.

Step-3: Paste the Kundan crystals on the painted shape to make beautiful design as
shown below. It is good to draw your design with pencil before pasting the crystals
so that there will be less chances of mistake. If you not able to find Kundan crystals
you can just paint the design, it also looks beautiful.

Step-4 : Take colored sheets (choose any color like I use red color sheet) and cut 1"
strip from it and 1" strip of arc shaped design and paste them on your cut-out as
shown below. Make as many as you want to hang usually 5-6 cut-outs will be
sufficient.

Step-5 : Now paste all cut-outs on the golden ribbon at equal distance. Take the length of
ribbon according the size of the door or where you want to hang Bandhanwar. Tie rubber
band at the both ends of your ribbon so that you can hang your creation easily.
Materials required:
1. Cardboard
2. Scissors
3. Glue/ fevicol
4. Decorative material
5. Paints
6. Coloured sheets
7. Ribbon/coloured thread
8. Brushes
9. Crayons
Any other material as seem necessary by educators

Objective of the activities fulfilled:

 Making students aware about the importance of our
environment while celebrating our festivals.
 Students will learn about how to make best use of waste
material and to create things in an eco-friendly manner.
 The student’s creativity will be brought out by keeping a
check on how they improvise on their creations in order to
make them look more creative.