Best Diwali Decoration Ideas To Revamp Your Home

With the festival of lights approaching fast, people like us focus more on the question “How to Decorate the House on Diwali” than anything. Diwali celebration is all about decorations at home, cleaning being the foremost part. Let’s take inspiration from some easy-to-do Diwali decoration ideas discussed below.

Don’t worry, these DIY ideas for decoration won’t cost you a fortune. You can create beautiful Diwali decoration items out of trash and scraps while cleaning your house. Are you ready to try these easy-peasy steps to deck up your home? Let’s get started.

Turn Bangles into Beautiful Diwali Decoration Items

There may be dozens of bangles at your home which you’re about to throw out while cleaning your home this Diwali. Don’t throw them out instead turn them into beautiful wall hangings. How? Here is the guide……

• Collect all bangles, string them together using a ribbon.
• Knot tightly and create a circular ring.
• Pass a stain ribbon through the knot and make a loop.
• Now, tie a bow at the top and hang down your walls!

Make Fairy Lights from Discarded Egg Carton

Every day we toss away those cartons without giving a thought they could be of great use. This Diwali don’t discard them, but make fairy lights one of the best Diwali decoration items to light up your home! Here is the how to do it yourself guide…..

• Cut the egg carton into half.
• Paint it into any colour you want.
• Make a hole into the center and insert lights.
• Your fairy lights for Diwali is all set to dazzle!!!

NOTE: You can also use glitters to paint the carton.

Make WOW Diya Decoration with Colourful Diyas

Diyas and Diwali are synonymous. The darkest night of the year actually is the brightest night in India. Here is your guide to how to decorate diyas for Diwali.

• Take simple earthen diyas.
• Paint the inside and outside of earthen lamps into contrasting colours.
• Decorate the rim with pearls or glitters and light up your house!

Note: If no paint is available, use nail paint.

Handy Tip for DIY Flour Diyas:Yes, you heard it right. Roll out the dough and make diyas out of them. Let them dry and paint afterwards with glitters or colours. Arrange them in floral pattern around flower pots. This is one of the best diya decoration ideas to implement!

Make Diwali Rangoli- Best Ideas for Home Decoration

Looking for the best rangoli designs, but in simple way, right? No worry, whether you want to decorate your front-door or backyard, this simple rangoli design video will surely help you out. However, below given image is also one of the simplest designs to create!

Courtsey: Creative Arts

• Start with drawing a big circle with the help of rangoli color of your choice.
• Now, make smaller circles around the big circle.
• Decorate with earthen lamps, and you’re done!

Diwali Lanterns and Lamps- Best Decorative Items to Beautify your Home

You can jazz up your home with these easy Diwali lighting ideas. Follow this DIY lantern and lamp making steps.

• Take two colored sheets, pencil, stapler and scissors.
• Cut two strips out of one sheet and keep aside.
• Fold the second sheet in half.
• Draw lines and cut along these lines leaving about one-inch space at the end.
• Open the sheet and roll it up. Now connect the sheet using staple.
• Roll up the first sheet and put it inside the lantern you made.
• Staple to keep it at place.
• Now hang them up your ceiling or at the backyard for festive feel!

Note: You can also turn those beer or wine bottles, jam jars, soft drink bottles into DIY lamps to decorate your home this Deepavali.

Scented Fruit Candles !– Easiest to Make

Do not throw away those fruit peels. This festival of lights, go creative and make stunning candles out of them.

Here is your guide to make fruit candles for Deepavali-

• Remove the middle portion or orange.
• Ensure middle stem like part is intact.
• Fill the hollow portion with olive oil or wax.
• Now lit the center stem that’ll work as wick.

Note: Go creative with edges of the orange for beautiful shapes.

Decorate your Doors with Diwali DIY Diwali Toran Ideas

Hanging toransor door hangings on Diwali is considered auspicious. You can make toran at home using these ideas.

• Take waste paper, cardboard.
• Cut them into mango leaf shapes, but ensure making a base for each leaf.
• Paste the leaf shape cut-out on base.
• Decorate it with glitter or a flat chamki.
• Let it dry.
• Stick all cut-outs on a string or a lace going behind them.
• Tie the ends of the string or lace from two hoops.
• Your DIY toran is ready!

Note: You can make torn out of discarded CDs too. What all you need is a little creativity.

Floating Candles DIY as Stunning Decorative Items

When it comes to Diwali decoration themes, one idea that never goes out of style is floating Diwali candles in an open glass bowl or pot as centerpiece.

• Take a big bowl or pot made of glass steel anything that has a wide opening.
• Fill it half with water.
• Put into it some rose petals, or other flower petals, items, glitters etc.
• Now add some tea-lights and lit them up.
• Your home will dazzle with lights!

Add Glitter to the Festive Theme with Decorated Candles

Decorate your regular candles with glitters, dry leaves, flowers or even paints to make them beautiful when lit up.

Flower Decoration- Perfect, Evergreen Theme

How about adding to the aesthetic pleasure of your home by decorating it with flowers? Flowers are great decorative items for deepavali which you can use at your entrance, inside the rooms the way you like. Just make sure to pick only fresh flowers.

The combination of diya and flowers will surely jazz up the surroundings of your home.

Twine Balloon Lamps- Light Up your Outdoor

It is of course the most popular concept to light up your outdoor. This handy guide will teach you how to make twine balloon light for Diwali.

First of all, things you’ll require-

• Big balloons
• Scissors
• Glue
• Sharpie
• Cotton yarn
• 1/2 cup of Corn starch
• Petroleum jelly
• 1/4 cup of Warm water
• Clear fast drying spray paint
• Container for mixing
• Rubber gloves

Directions to make

• Start by blowing up a balloon. (Do not inflate it to the maximum)
• Hang it down the ceiling.
• Make and mix the paste using water, corn starch and glue.
• Dip yarn in the paste.
• Now wrap the balloon with the yarn soaked in the paste.
• Let it dry for about 12 hours.
• Pop the balloon.
• You’ll get a balloon shaped cotton ball.
• Spray paint and now add it to your décor!

Sea Shell Candles and Lights- Stunning Décor

Give the shells collected by you or your kids during a seashore holiday a facelift by turning them into beautiful candles and lights!

• Clean the shells.
• Now glue a pre-waxed wick in the center of each shell.
• Once these are dried. Melt the wax and pour them gently in shells.
• Let them cool down, now, your shell candles are ready!
• Likewise, you can add tiny bulbs and make a string of lights this Diwali.

Recycled Tin Can Lanterns

This Diwali, do not throw those old tin cans out of your home while cleaning! Yes, tock them up and turn them into eye-catching lanterns! It is one of the easiest Diwali lamps and lantern ideas!

• First of all, fill each can with sands.
• Wrap the can with a paper tightly.
• Place the can over a towel to avoid rolling.
• Now use a nail and hammer to make the desired design.
• Make two large holes on both sides of the can to pass into it a hanging wire.
• Once, you’re done with the design part, remove the sand and clean the cans well.
• Spray the inner part of the cans with white paint and paint the outer part with another colour.
• Let it dry for sometimes.
• Now, cut a portion of wire accordingly and insert it through both the ends.
• Before putting candles, fill about two centimeters of the can bottom with sand first.
• Whoa, your recycled can lanterns are ready to be lit up!

These recycled cans will serve as the best candle holders as well!

Diwali Puja Thali Decorations

Puja thali is one of the most followed Diwali decoration ideas all around India. To start with-

• Take a brass or copper thali.
• Take some bettle leaves.
• Now arrange the bettle leaves in a circular form.
• Deck the center part with yellow marigold to give it a bit more festive look.
• Now place other puja items or a traditional diya/lamp to give it a finishing look.

Aforesaid tips are some of the easiest Diwali decoration ideas that you and your kids can enjoy together. These DIY projects besides being fun are money savers as well. If you know some other decoration ideas, do let us know!