An Easy Holi Craft Activity We Are Doing With The Kids This Week

Make Holi special by doing this fun activity with your kids that involves colours, art & loads of fun. It comes with step by step instructions so you’ll find it easy to do.
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Holi is all about celebrating the festival of spring with colours in all ways – dry form, liquid form, with friends & family dancing and frolicking around from dawn until dusk.

For all the past years we were so busy celebrating Holi that a colouring project with kids did not even cross my mind. But this time, since Holi is very close to Spring Equinox, I wanted to create something which could combine together the spirit of Holi & Spring vibes together. 

This project is divided into two parts – Process art on waste papers & making craft using them.  I usually try to work around projects where I can reuse previously scribbled papers by my son in an attempt to recycle & reduce waste. We did the same for this one. First, we created some paint textures on the paper, then we crafted it into a spring scene. 

 

Part 1 – Holi Process Art Project

Materials Required

  • Spray Bottle
  • Recycled Papers
  • Sponge
  • Poster / Acrylic Colours
  • Water

Method

  • Lay the scribbled art papers on a table evenly without leaving any gaps. Pour some liquid poster paints in a spray bottle, mix little water and then let your kid go wild with it! It gave him the feel of pichkari.
  • He sprayed the paper over and over and watched the colours as they absorbed into the paper.  New colours formed as the colours bled together.  There was also a beautiful “firework” effect that took place from the spray of the spray bottles. 
  • To add an additional layer to the paint effect we used a sponge, dabbed it in colours and printed it on the paper. 
  • The final result was a mixture of several textures created through paints. 
  • Lay it down on a clear surface to dry.

Part 2: Crafting Holi Spring Craft Project

Materials Required

  • 2 medium-size Paper Plates
  • Acrylic/poster colours
  • Popsicle stick
  • Fevicol
  • Papercutting knife 
  • Palette 
  • Paintbrush

Method

  • Divide the paper plate into two parts. Paint the upper part in light blue as the sky and below part as green ground. 
  • Take another paper plate. Cut it in half in the shape of grass. Colour it green. 
  • Cut floral & leaves in different shapes & sizes using the process art sheets.

  • Glue them together by small, medium and big to create layered flowers that looked gorgeous growing on the paper plate grass. Cut leaves in a similar pattern. It totally gave the spring garden vibes. 
  • Use the other part of plate to make children drawing. Outline it with black marker and let your kid colour it as per his desire.

  • Cut it neatly and glue it on the coloured plate.

  • We used torn pieces of paper from sprayed sheets to give impressions of holi colour on ground and clothes of children.

  • Stick one of the child on a Popsicle stick.

  • Using paper cutting knife make a small slit in the plate and insert Popsicle stick kid puppet inside it.

  • Then paste the other paper plate on top of it to give an impression of 3D garden.

  • The final version looked like a spring garden in full bloom where kids are playing holi.

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