Introduction

To add joy to your festival, all you need to do is to do something creative. You don’t always want to spend a little fortune on décor for Onam. So here are some simple Onam decoration ideas for you.

And other times, you wish for something more distinctive and personalized to honor a loved one.

If you’re planning to decorate your house for Onam, we suggest doing some DIY labor to get the decorations going. In this article, we have mentioned simple Onam decoration ideas you can do at home.

5 Simple Onam Decoration Ideas You Can Do at Home | DIY Décor 2022

Below are simple Onam decoration DIY ideas that you can easily do at home:

Onam Decorative Item

Requirements:

• White sheet
• Coloured Craft
• Glue
• Cutter

Step 1: Take a white sheet of paper. And fold it into equal parts.

Step 2: Now take the base measurement 1 cm from right and 3 cm on top from right. Now, cut out the piece.

Step 3: Now, place the cut-out piece on the crafting paper and draw 4 adjoint figures as shown below.

Step 4: Now, draw the extensions and cut it out.

Step 5: Now, glue along the edges. And you’ll have a box base.

Step 6: Now, take a green paper and make leaves as shown below.

Step 7: Now take brown paper and cut out the coconuts and cut the base from the centre as shown below.

Step 8: Now, place one coconut over the other.

Step 9: Now cut the box you prepared as shown below so you can insert your coconut into that.

Step 10: Now glue the leaves to it. As shown below.

Step 11: Now, draw the significant face and paste it on your decorative item. You can either put stones into it, so it won’t fly here or there or candies are the better option.

Harvest decorative Item #1

Requirements:

• Wasted Newspaper
• Glue
• Stick
• Paint

Step 1: Take a newspaper sheet and roll it along a stick and paste its remaining end. Remove the stick. Now, similarly roll small sheets (8-10).

Step 2: Now with the help of stick roll the smaller pieces as show below. Leave 1-2 inches of paper from the end and glue it.

Step 3: Now, similarly prepare 8-10 pieces. And glue them to the stick.

Step 4: Now, similarly prepare 8-10 pieces.

Step 5: Now colour them of yellowish-brown colour.

Step 6: Now you can place them all in a flowerpot.

Harvest decorative Item #2

Requirements:

• Wasted Newspaper
• Glue
• Stick
• Paint

Step 1: Take a newspaper sheet and roll it along a stick and paste its remaining end. Remove the stick. Now, similarly roll small sheets (8-10).

Step 2: Now, with the help of a stick, roll the smaller pieces as shown below. Leave 1-2 inches of paper from the end and glue it.

Step 3: Now, similarly prepare 8-10 pieces. And glue them to the stick alternately.

Step 4: Now, similarly prepare 2-3 pieces and paint the stick green, and color the pieces with different colors. Now you can place them all in a flowerpot.

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Sugarcanes

Requirements:

• Brown Crafting paper
• Green Crafting paper
• White cotton
• Glue
• Scissors

Step 1: Take a brown crafting paper and roll it as shown below. Now, glue the end of it.

Step 2: Now, prepare two of a kind.

Step 3: Now, take the green crafting paper and fold it.

Step 4: Now, shred out the pieces of paper as shown below.

Step 5: Curve the sugarcane hair outwards with the help of the scissors.

Step 6: Now, glue it from the center.

Step 7: Glue it from outside as well. Now, roll the sugarcane hair along the stick.

Step 8: Take the cotton and flatten it on your hand.

Step 9: Now paste the cotton on the sugarcane as shown below. Your sugarcane sticks are ready. You can paste them on the wall. Or decorate them wherever you want.

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Wall hanging

Requirements:

• Wool of different colors
• Plastic canvas
• Needle
• Beads

Step 1: Take two colors of wool of the length you want your wall hanging string to be off and give them pleats as shown below.

Step 2: Now, take a small cardboard or plastic board and tie the roll the wool over it 10-15 times.

Step 3: Remove it carefully and tie it from the top.

Step 4: Now tie the other colour of the wool as shown below and cut the ends evenly.

Step 5: Now, take a plastic canvas and knit the wool in the form of a kite. Look at the pictures for your reference. And cut out the extra canvas.

Step 6: Take the woollen piece you prepared, insert 2 big beads into it and tie it to the plastic canvas.

Step 7: Tie another string at the top of the canvas and insert the bead at top.

Step 8: Now, prepare as many as pieces you want. And tie it or nail it into the string you prepared at the beginning. 

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Conclusion

Hopefully, you have found whatever you were looking to make your Onam decoration even more enlightened. Doing something creative yourself adds more joy to the decoration or the festival.

All the above-mentioned DIYs will give quite an aesthetic look to your festive decoration and will make it more fun to celebrate.

Some DIYs are undoubtedly simpler to construct than others, we’re confident you’ll find something to fit your preferences, crafting time constraints and ability level.

If you have any new ideas, you would like to share with our reader’s Comment below and let us know.