Rangoli Designs & Ideas For Ugadi Decoration

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By Amrisha Sharma

Thursday, March 22, 2012, 15:52

Tomorrow is Ugadi. After cleaning the house in the morning, you have to make rangoli near the entrance. It is a positive symbol used to welcome good luck, joy and happiness with bright colours. Few people believe that rangoli is drawn on the entrance to welcome God. Traditionally, in South India, rangoli designs are drawn with white powder but you can go creative. Apart from using rice powder, the traditional rangoli colour, try these bright ideas to make rangoli design on the entrance this Ugadi.

Ideas to make rangoli designs:

Use colours: You can go colourful this Ugadi. Welcome New Year with bright and vibrant colours such as red, orange, yellow, blue, green and pink. Blend them in proper strokes of the geometric shape rangoli. Colours attract more attention and looks good too.

Try with flowers: You can either draw a rangoli with flowers only flowers and petals. Rose petals, marigold petals, small purple paper flowers are few colourful flowers to use for rangoli making. Finely cut greens-grass, leaves, methi leaves and rose leaves can give the finishing touch to your flower rangoli design. Another way of using flowers is by placing them in geometric shaped coloured rangoli as fillings.

Diyas/candles: Rangoli making is basically drawing your entrance with bright colours and flowers. As it is Ugadi, welcome New Year by using candles/diyas on the rangoli. If you don't want to use too many diyas/cnadles to highlight rangoli in the night time, use only few on the corners or joining points. This defines the fine strokes and cutting in rangoli. Another way is by putting one candle on a stand at the center of the rangoli design.

Try these ideas to design and decorate your rangoli for Ugadi. Celebrate the New Year with colours and lights.