Today, we have Sabitha Sahu from coloraaga with a post on making rakhi with natural materials.
Lets get started right away!
“Going Green”….”Eco-friendly” are some of the
growing buzzwords these days. Its not only the time to understand the true
meaning behind this but also to implement them in our own way. Well, I
am here today to make “Bio-Rakhi” for the coming festival.I believe this could
be like a small effort claiming reduction, minimal or like a simple action for
doing no harm upon the Eco system or the environment. Happiness is always handmade and when you choose handmade you choose true happiness. Let’s make a clay Rakhi, to celebrate the divine and beautiful
bond between brothers and sisters.
For this you only need natural
clay and any decorative thread.
Step 1
Roll the clay to ball
shape and make a hole at the centre with the help of a pencil
Step 2
Take any seed of your choice to fill in the hole, here I
have taken some seed of the sacred plant
Tulsi and filled the hole with these seeds.
Step 3
After this, I have taken the dried flower like pod of plant
and fixed this ball on to it. Then secure the clay ball (one with the seeds)
with another clay ball using adhesive.
Step 4
Now attach the decorative thread below for tying the rakhi
and Lo! it’s ready. You can also color them or have it in its natural form.
The final rakhi looks like this.
It’s a natural one with seeds that the brother can sow in
the soil. As the plant grows, the sis will always be remembered fondly!
That was a lovely post Sabitha. Thank you so much. And,
folks that’s not all, we have a beautiful painting print from Sabitha as a giveaway
too! The rules are real simple…
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Hope you will try this fab idea for making an Eco Friendly
at home. As the festivities begin, we will be back with more posts soon!
2 comments:
Hi, it’s very simple and a very pretty idea of making Rakhi.
I would take a small photo of my brother and fuzzy cut if , then would make small beads of clay and stick them around the circumference of the picture. Would paint the beads n stick the thread beneath the picture
Love
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Hello Sangitha..
Love the idea of eco friendly Rakhi with clay and adding Tulsi seed in it. I remember since my high school days I am making Rakhi for my brother. Those days was not aware of concepts like eco-friendly or the three R's (Reduce, Reuse & Recycle). But whole year I collect wedding invitation cards to full fill my crafting activities. I get almost everything from invitation cards only one thing I use extra is glue. Now also I do the same. Sabita's tulsi seed gave me an amazing idea, so I'll add a layer of Pumkin or Cucumber seed in the Rakhi. Will try to make a flower base design with seeds as we make pista shell lotus. And after Rakhi will ask my brother to put that in soil & water it.
In these years with increase in age only size of Rakhi has decreased gradually :)
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