Diwali Pooja Thali Decoration Ideas
Thali
Steps:
1. Take a round shaped thali.
2. In a little place draw the swastika sign with any colour you like
3. Take one diya shaped like a goddess. Place in the front side or middle.
4. Take some flowers of your choice, preferably hibiscus. Place these
flowers on the thali.
5. Take a agarbatti stand and light some agarbati.
6. Take a small bell.
7. Than take the sonkha (The big thing like seashell used for praying god).
If your thali has some space left fill that with colours.
Shreyaa
Aarti thali with bindi decoratation
Steps:
1. Cover ur thali by using any single colored paper.
2. Stick ur wasted bindi on this thali.
3. Make ur favourite design on the thali by using different styles of
bindis.
4. Put a small dish with diya on it.
5. Also stick ganpati or laksmiji picture in it.
Your arti thali is ready.
Priyanka Shah
Flower Pooja Thali
Steps:
1. Take a solid plate of any size.
2. Keep some flowers on the plate.
3.Spread the glitter onto the plate beautifully and place the pooja items.
Roopal Bardia
Velvet Pooja Thali
Steps:
1. Take a plane steel thali.
2. Cover it with a velvet cloth of any color.
3. Keep your pooja material on it.
4. Decorate a diya with golden color and place it on your thali.
5. You will get a adorably stylized velvet pooja thali.
Aakriti
Simple Thali Decoration
Steps:
1. Take a plain thali.
2. Cut seven any colored cloth and cut it in such a way that a spiral of
different colors is formed.
3. Decorate more stick mirrors sequences or any thing on it in a pattern.
4. Now place all the 'pooja items on it with placement of 7 diyas on it.
Roma Nagpal
Pooja Thali with Laces
Steps:
1. Take a plastic/steel plate.
2. Cover the plate completely by pasting different colored papers.
3. Decorate the plate with hanging golden laces all around and small
mirrors in the corners.
4. Place statues of God Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi.
Rajni
Mirror Mosaic Thali
Steps:
1.Take steel plate or a ceramic plate.
2.Take little pieces of mirror of various shapes and make concentric
designs of diyas, swastikas with the help of marker.
3. Now paste the mirror pieces over the design by keeping a distance of
about 1 mm between each mirror.
4. Leave it for 5-6hours.
5. Make a paste with plaster of paris and fill all the gaps.
6. You will get a stunning mirror mosaic thali.
Sonia Sareen
Simple Thali Decoration
Steps:
1. Take any plate available at home.
2. Take some bright powdered colors.
3. Design a rangoli on the plate.
4. Then take 5 small sized plates.
5. Put it in the bigger plate.
Place a lighted diya on it.
Hiral Patel
Tissue Cloth Puja Thali
Steps:
1. Take a plain thali.
2. Stick some paper on it.
3. Then take red or any colour tissue cloth. Cut it in a round shape,
little big from plate size then piko it. Take golden ghungru and stitch them
all around the border of the cloth.
4. Stick the cloth at plate. Then take some stone and stick for decoration.
Place a Ganeshji photo and kalash for decoration.
Divya Zalani
Thali Decorated with Dupatta
Steps:
1. Cover a thali with a bandej duppata or cloth.
2. Stick gota or lace along the dupatta.
3. Stick ghungroos or bells in the 4 corners of dupatta.
4. Place rose petals in corners and now place diya in between.
5. Your thali is ready.
Have a rocking Diwali!
Mansi
Water Filled Thali
Steps:
1. Make some colourful designs at the border of the thali using color, lace
or gota.
2. Fill the thali with water (not too much such that it overflows).
3. Put some rose petals in the thali.
4. Place a diya in the centre of the thali and lit it.
5. Place two small containers for "chawal" and "rolli"
to keep it in the water filled thali.
6. Your unique and great Aarti or Puja Thali is ready.
Reema
Painted Puja Thali
Steps:
1. Take a plane thali.
2. Make a pattern on it.
3. Now, paint with oil or poster colors.
4. Let it dry.
5. Your colourful Diwali Puja Thali is ready.
Wish you a very very Happy Diwali
Drashti
Zari Border Puja Thali
Here is a beautiful way to decorate Pooja Thali in a traditional way using
the items available at home itself.
Steps:
1. Cut an old zari border of a saree or a duppata and stitch small
ghungroos or shells (kauris as found on Gujarati dupattas) on it.
2. Then with the help of fevicol or fevibond paste this on the border of
the palte.
3. Take coloured jute thin rope or moli and paste it at the centre of the
plate making a spiral shape.
4. The thali will look colourful and traditional.
Raveena
Thali Decoration with Haldi and Roli
Steps:
1.Take a plain thali.
2. Spread a little oil on the thali.
3. Now place good amount of haldi (turmeric) and roli on the thali.
4. Move the thali in all directions. You will wonder at the way haldi and
roli mixes and spread all over the thali and covers it.
5. Now with a match stick make a pattern or design of your choice.
6. Sprinkle glitter on the thali.
7. Place all the items of pooja on the thali and have a glittering Diwali.
Shweta
Take Plain Diwali Puja Thali. Create a swastik design by sindoor on the
pooja thali
Arrange all the essential accessories for diwali pooja, which includes:
diya, candles
roli, chawal, moli ( kalava)
doop, agarbatti, camphor
laxmi ganesh silver coins / idols
a bell
water in a container
coconut
sweets / fruits ( for parshad)
flowers
Your Diwali Thali is Ready for Puja
Saryu
The beautiful diwali thali contains diya, betel leaves, supari, cardamom,
clove, sweets and fruits for each navgraha.
Place all these on the diwali puja thali - agarbathi, camphor, sandalwood
powder, a bell, uncooked rice, uncooked milk, gold and silver coins with
ganesh and laxmi imprints for prosperity.
Swastik is to be made of sindoor on the thali, kalash and coconut.
Extra sindoor, parshad of sweets - set all these on the thali for aarti.
Can also add dhoop for a more purified prayer.
Deepa
Take a steel plate and rangoli colors. Decorate your plate with rangoli
design and place diya and sweets for God in appropriate place!
Happy deepavali!
Payal
Illuminated Thali
Steps:
1. Cover a thali with a bright coloured satin or jacquard cloth.
2. Give thali a border by sticking a contrast colour fancy lace, using
glue.
3. Now stick mirrors and kundan stones of different colours and shape
tastefully and then arrange the required items on the thali.
4. If the mirrors are stuck around the center, then place a fancy aroma
candle in the center. When lit the light will be reflected by the
surrounding mirrors and enhance the beauty of the thali.
Sudha
Paper Sunflower Puja Thali
Steps:
1. Take one yellow crepe paper and cut it in shape of petals.
2. Take another brown shining paper and cut it in a small circle. This will
be used to form the centre of the flower.
3. Take a white paper and cut it in a round shape. Stick the brown paper on
it using gum. Then stick petals around it to form a sunflower.
4. To give a realistic look to this sunflower on the brown round shape
apply gum and put tea powder so that it looks like sunflower bud.
5. Sunflower is ready now.
6. Stick this sunflower on the plate.
Priya
Puja Thali Decoration with Kumkum
Steps:
1. Take a small-medium sized steel thali. Put about 2 teaspoons of ghee
(clarified butter) in the thali and spread it all over it.
2. Sprinkle some kanku (kumkum) all over the thali.
3. Once it is evenly spread, in the center of the thali draw a swastika
with 4 dots or an aum with your finger (you should be able 2 see the steel
underneath.)
4. Put down flower petals where you would put the diva (put the diva in the
center of the swastika or aum) a bell,camphor, an om symbol and a little
rice.
5. Light your diva and have an awesome Diwali.
Aaron
Silver Paint Puja Thali
Steps:
1. Take a round shaped thali.
2. Sparkle the thali with silver colour.
3. Make any design on thali with red sparkle after the silver paint has
dried.
4. Cover the edge of the thali with a golden lace.
5. Place diya in between and two small box covered with lace with kanku and
chaawal inside. Also place a small nariyal, mauli and five coins.
Nikita
Pumpkin Diya Puja Thali
Material Required - Colorful flowers, spoons of different size , white
Pumpkin, dough, tack pins, plate
Steps:
1. Cut the pumpkin and make a flat surface so that it can rest on plate. If
you want you can stick it with little dough.
2. Cover the spoons with colorful dough & start poking in the pumpkin
from upside down small to bigger by size in a circular way.
3. Once you have poked the spoons, in the empty space prick flowers with
tack pins so that the pumpkin gets covered.
4. Cover the sides of plate with flowers.
5. Then burn the diyas in the spoon it will form a deep stambh or lit
pillar. You can form the deep stambh of 11 or 21 diyas or as many as you
wish.
Shubhangi Ladha
Sunflower Puja Thali
Steps:
1. Take a medium size Thali and colour it with oil paints or poster colours
(use golden yellow colour as background) all over the thali.
2. Draw small flowers on the side of the thali (surrounded with flowers)use
orange or red colour for flowers. There should not be any gap between
flowers.
3. Draw a big sunflower in the center of the thali using lemon yellow. Give
little bit of orange as shade in the center of the petals.
4. There will be space left between the side flowers and center flower.
Keep some rose petals on this left space (around the sunflower put this rose
petals).
5. Keep the diya in the center of the sunflower and light it.
6. Keep some chawal and kumkum in a small container and place it on the
rose petals.
Nirmala Biradar
Aarti Thali Decoration with Kumkum and Lots of
Flowers!!
Material Required - Thali of any material (Steel, Copper, Brass),
Ghee, Vibrant flowers(such as red, pink, yellow, white etc.), 5 diyas,
Cotton wicks, Bell, Camphor along with the camphor holder.
Steps:
1. Get a steel thali of atleast medium to large size.
2. The thali should be either of steel, copper or brass.
3. Take 2 teaspoons of ghee & spread it gently all over the thali.
4. Sprinkle some Kumkum on the evenly spread ghee thali.
5. Now draw a figure such as a Lotus flower with your finger.
6. Beautify the look further with flowers.
7. Prepare a beautiful garland made either with white or yellow flowers.
8. Fill up the the inside of the figure's with some red or pink flowers.
9. Fill up the outside part of the figure's shape with white and yellow
flowers.
10. Leave some space between the figure's shape & thali's border.
11. Make use of either of these puja accessories as abil, gulal, chandan,
sindoor or haldi to highlight the inside part of the border.
12. One can even use tulsi leaves or flower petals.
13. For placing of the diyas, make 5 spaces. Diyas should have cotton wicks
soaked in ghee.
14. Put the bell and camphor holder in one part of the thali.
15. Highlight the area with vibrant colored flower petals beautifully
forming some pattern.
16. Finally, lighten the Diyas which completes the look of the stunning
looking Aarti Thali!!!
Aaron Patel
