Creating Rangoli

As part of our Diwali celebrations, we created rangoli! Rangoli is a traditional art that is created with coloured rice, sand or flour. Hindu's create rangoli during Diwali to welcome deities into their home. Often times rangoli designs are geometric or in the shapes of flowers.

The first step we took in making our rangoli was to talk about what rangoli is and what it looks like. We looked at pictures of rangoli on the overhead lcd projector.

We talked about the colours, shapes, and information about why they are made and how they are made. The next day we brought in salt, chalk and cookie sheets and started our own rangoli designs.

The first step was to colour the salt to get vibrant and beautiful colours.

Colouring the salt with chalk to give it a nice colour.

After we had a variety of colours of salt, we drew designs on paper with a pencil, went over the pencil lines with glue, and added pinches of the colours we wanted on our designs.

Starting to add colours to a beautiful flower design.

Two stages--- Mrs. Walt pinching salt onto her flower, a boy drawing his picture and another boy just starting his chalk.

We had so much fun creating beautiful designs! Some friends have taken them home, and others are displayed at school. Check back later today for pictures of some of our rangoli art.

Happy weekend!