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Newspaper Decoration Crafts for Diwali
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If you’re searching for newspaper decoration crafts for Diwali to do at home, you’re in the right place! Keep your learning spirit alive with our curated list of newspaper decoration crafts like peacock candle stand crafts with newspaper & cardboard, handmade Diwali decoration ideas, newspaper lantern decoration crafts at home, and how to make a wall hanging decoration ideas.
When I say Diwali, crackers may come into your mind as the first thing if you are a kid, but we use Diyas (light candlesticks), which will brighten houses and add beauty. Every festival has a story behind it, right? In the same way, the actions we take at that festival are also a reason. Diwali comes in the new moon period (called Amavasai), so lighting up Diyas removes the darkness and evil. Kaarthikai Deepam is a festival which is celebrated in Tamil Nadu, where people light up lights for 10 days. If you are a Tamil person, try this craft on that day.
Why not? You can replace this with candles to light up in churches if you won’t celebrate those listed festivals.
If you are looking for an adorable Diya stand for Diwali, then you are in the right place. Here we have listed various innovative ways of making Diya stand, and YouTube links too! If you look closely at all the crafts listed below, the main thing you need is the newspaper and sometimes cardboard. Scissors and glue are the supporting elements. Stones, lace, and small mirror stones are decorative parts. With these three-part crafts, we made these crafts. Besides, these 3 sections of things are easily available and cost-effective.
Newspaper Decoration Crafts For Diwali
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Pooja Plate Craft Activity With Diya

Image Source/Tutorial: K4 Craft
Materials required: Thermocol, coloured papers, newspaper and an old Diya.
Difficulty level: Easy
Cut the Thermocol into a circular shape. Colour the newspaper or use coloured paper to cover the Thermocol. Decorate the old Diya in the same way and place it at the centre. To decorate it more, cut the coloured paper into any shape and decorate it around the Thermocol. This craft is less time-consuming, and even children can do this. The decoration part is up to you. The more you engage in the craft work, the more your creativity develops.
Easy & Simple Diya Stand Craft With Cardboard

Image Source/Tutorial: Craft Cinema
Materials required: Cardboard, newspaper, coloured paper(any colour), lace, decorative stone, scissors, needle or long stick to roll newspaper, glue, small glass mirror(for decoration) and acrylic colour.
Difficulty level: Moderate
The image may give the feel of difficulty, but it’s not. Split the process, and you will come to know it’s doable, and the materials are also easily available. The short note of the process is: make 3 different sizes of round cardboard and cover them with coloured paper and lace. Make 4 pieces of arc-shaped cardboard with decorative papers and stones. Now comes the work of the newspaper. We are making a stand for a candlestick with the help of a newspaper. That’s it. Watch the video to get elaborate details. Moreover, videos will help us understand much better than reading text. Easy and adorable, isn’t it? Try this on Diwali, Kaarthikai Deepam or other festivals with slight modifications and have a blast celebration!
Handmade Diya Candle Holder Craft With Newspaper
Materials required: Cardboard, scissors, glue, coloured paper, pink ribbon or wool, Tealight candles, white beads, newspaper and glitter.
Difficulty level: Moderate
Making roses and leaves may feel a little bit tougher, but once you practice a few roses and leaves, you will feel comfortable making them; other than this, every other process is easy peasy! You can gift this craft to your neighbours and relatives, as this is adorable. This background ring is made from newspaper, and then it is covered and designed with ribbons, rose petals and leaves. You can use your bangles instead of a newspaper for the background ring. School and college students and housewives are fit for this craft, and you can sell it online too! If you are a working professional and have a keen interest in making crafts and decorating your home with your creative mind, then try this craft and make your home beautiful.
How To Make a Diya Stand With a Newspaper

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafting Hours
Materials required: Stones, glue, paintbrush, cutter, newspaper, metallic colours and wooden stick.
Difficulty level: Moderate
When I look at this, I think it’s difficult and we need more materials and time too. But to make it simple, the protagonists of this craft are newspapers, stones and paint. For this Diwali, make your home brighter and stunning with this Deepak stand. To say the process in simple terms, you need to make many circles shaped by different sizes of newspapers. Show your talent in converting that circle shape into a mud light(In Tamil, it is Agal Vilakku) shape. Paste it together and paint it. Finally, decorate with stones. TaDa! We are ready with our craft.
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Peacock Candle Stand Craft With Newspaper & Cardboard

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Nest
Materials required: Newspaper, stones, scissors, cardboard, glue and paint.
Difficulty level: Difficult
If you are awesome at drawing and stone works, then you may not feel this craft as difficult. I’ll draw, but not much. I didn’t hone my drawing skills it’s because I didn’t spend my time drawing, but you don’t leave your skills unnoticed. In my childhood, I would trace the characters with the help of carbon paper and use them to showcase that to everybody as my drawing. The cups for candles are the newspaper part, and the peacocks are the cardboard part. After you have done the craft, in excitement, don’t pour oil and light it with matchsticks, then your whole work of craft will burn into ashes. Use strong glue to hold the weight of tealight candles. Happy Diwali.
Creative Diya Stand Decoration Craft For Diwali

Image Source/Tutorial: Punekar Sneha
Materials required: Cardboard, foil paper, Shilpkar or mould clay, acrylic colour, thread, paintbrush, colour ball chain, scissors, glue, tealight candle and stones
Difficulty level: Moderate
I wondered when I saw how to make the foot. Once we are ready with this foot, we can do the rest decoration using stones and glue. Damn! Clay’s work didn’t strike my mind. Yeah, it’s clay work. Are you thinking, will I get a good shape like in this image? Don’t overthink! It’s a pack of foot-shaped cardboard, foil paper to make a bulge and clay over that two combos. Hence, it’s all about ideas. Once you start to explore more crafts, you’ll get more ideas. Without control, ideas will pop up in your head. Don’t just stop the craft with little decoration, toe rings (for married women) and anklets are the beauty of women, so make them here too, to add extra beauty to your craft. And try making innovative crafts and showcasing your talent.
Reuse Newspaper Diya Stand Art & Craft Step By Step
Materials required: Newspaper, cardboard, scissors, glue, an LED lamp and a small God statue.
Difficulty level: Easy
Are you wishing to build a temple for God? But it’s impossible as the budget is too high. Ok, at least let us build a temple in Craft, and it’s free of cost. Because newspapers and cardboard are the main things which are available easily. Take over the decorative part. The work is less compared to other crafts listed here. This image and the video just showed us the idea of making the craft, and you showed the decorative one. Use a less weighted mud light as it is made of paper and glue. The only thing you need to spend on this craft is your time. If you worship Ganapathy, then use this for Vinayagar Chaturthi and sing as Ganapathi Bappa Moriya… Based on whom you worship, place that god’s statue.
Handmade Diwali Decoration Idea For Kids

Image Source/Tutorial: Nidhi Jain
Materials required: Newspaper, scissors, glue, lace, stones, small god’s statue, tealight candle, paint and paintbrush.
Difficulty level: Easy
Are you keen on making crafts and thinking about what craft we can make by having a God statue at the centre? In most homes, the puja room is filled with God’s frames and statues. So why don’t we take our craft work into the puja room? We all love to see God’s statue after decoration (Alangaram), which will happen at temples. What if we make that at home? Start this process from this Diwali and enjoy the beauty. You can also gift this craft to your parents and older people. The works and things behind this beautiful, as well as simple, craft are combinations of cardboard, newspaper, paint and different thinking!
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Newspaper Lantern Decoration Crafts
Newspaper Lantern Decoration Craft At Home

Image Source/Tutorial: MC Crafts
Materials required: Newspaper, balloon, paint spray (preferably golden colour), golden thread, glue and small electrical LED lights.
Difficulty level: Moderate
Nowadays, this kind of lamp lantern is trendy. Are you in the thought of “it looks difficult but you’ve mentioned this as moderate” and “maybe it is difficult for us and moderate for others”? No buddy, it’s not that difficult, but this gives a pro look, doesn’t it? You should be careful while handling the balloon. You just need to make lots of newspaper rolls with a wooden stick to make the lid and body part. Once you are done with the newspaper part, you are going! Make medium-sized balloons and roll the paper around them. After constructing a web-like crisscross structure, you are almost done. Make 2 lids with the help of detailed video instructions given in the image and colour them with paint spray. Finally, insert the lights and glow them. TaDa! We are ready with a beautiful home décor lantern.
Beautiful Lantern Craft With Newspaper

Image Source/Tutorial: Shivani Creations
Materials required: Newspaper, OHP sheet, cardboard, black marker, scissors, glue, paint and brush, stones, pom for decoration, glitter glass colours, white beads, yarn and needle.
Difficulty level: Easy but moderate.
The process is easy, but you may feel tired of rolling lots of newspapers. If you are done with the newspaper rolling part, then half of the work is done. Draw 2 diamond shapes on the cardboard and cut out the centre part. Keep the centre part aside, where we will decorate later. Paste the newspaper rolls in the diamond shape to get a beautiful appearance, and colour it. The role of the diamond part is for measurement. With the help of a rectangle-sized cardboard, all 4 separate pieces. To make it more attractive, let’s add pom poms and newspaper cups with beads. Place this near the window to taste the beauty.
DIY Lantern Decoration Craft Tutorial For Diwali

Image Source/Tutorial: Charvi Ashtekar
Materials required: Newspaper, OHP sheet, acrylic paint and a black marker.
Difficulty level: Moderate
The requirements are simple, but you need different coloured shapes of paint. The concept is the same for this and the previous craft, it’s all about creating different versions of the craft. The difference is that this craft is a hanging lantern, and the previous one is a hanging decorative craft. Without using cardboard, we have made this craft. You can gift this to your beloved one. Always making things by ourselves is a better gift than buying from stores. Because everybody knows that TIME is the most valuable one in the world. Not all people will spend time with others in this fast-moving world. But if you did this, it signifies your love and care towards them. Have a happy Diwali with your family and friends!
Newspaper Wall Hanging Decoration Crafts
Newspaper Wall Hanging Festival Decoration Idea

Image Source/Tutorial: Nidhi Jain
Materials required: Newspaper, wooden stick to roll, scissors, glue, yarn, needle, green paper, stones, lace, acrylic paint and brush.
Difficulty level: Moderate
The process and materials required are simple, but you need patience to finish this craft. Based on the number of pots, you’ll get a more spiral shape. You can use any shape instead of a pot. To get a spiral shape, cut the thread into different lengths. This pot reminds me Pongal festival, so you can make this newspaper wall hanging pot during the Pongal festival. If you feel pot making is kind of overwork and looking to replace then do it and hang it in your house.
Read More: How to make a newspaper wall hanging with a flower vase (Tutorial)
DIY Wall Hanging Diya Decoration Idea Using Paper

Image Source/Tutorial: Preeti Chauhan
Materials required: Newspaper, paint, scissors, glue, red and yellow paper beads and thread.
Difficulty level: Easy
Are you the laziest person like me? I like making crafts. I’ll watch lots of craft videos, but I won’t take action on the thought of “this craft needs lots of materials or work”, and so on. If I wanna work on DIY, then it should be simple and good. If you are a person like me, then this craft is perfect for you. And others can also do this craft. The work is also less here. It’s just enough to make 8 newspaper rolls and paint them a black colour. You can paint in any colour, but black is the apt colour for white walls. Cut coloured papers in Diya shape and tie them with beads on the black frame. That’s it! You are done.
How To Make a Wall Hanging Decoration Idea

Image Source/Tutorial: Art and Ideas
Materials required: Newspaper, acrylic paint, beads, yarn, glue, lace, needle and pom pom.
Difficulty level: Easy
On Diwali, lights will give a special glow to our house, but what’s the point of stopping there? Let’s add beauty to our house with some more craft decorations. It can easily be done, 12-year-old kid. If you have a newborn baby in your house, then do this craft and hang it above the baby’s wooden cradle. This colourful craft will entertain your newborn babies. You don’t wanna spend money to buy pom poms, simply using a spoon or scale, you can make them yourself. In short, makes newspaper cups, paints and adds beads. That’s it!
When I was a school kid, I didn’t have internet availability, so though I had the time and interest to do the craft, I didn’t get the idea to start. I didn’t know we could make a beautiful, stunning craft with just newspaper and paint. When I have the accessibility, I don’t have time, but I still craft things whenever possible. So don’t lose the opportunity, guys! Try all those and comment on your favourite one. Be in touch with K4craft friends.
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