WAX CRAYON PAINTING 
You’ll need: Wax crayons, canvas, glue and hair dryer.
How to:
♦ Using glue, fix an entire set of wax crayons on the top of your canvas. Make sure you have a spectrum of colours to make your painting really vibrant.
♦ Take a hair dryer, put it on a low power mode and blow hot air on top of the crayons. Tilt the canvas a little so that the melted wax trickles down along the entire length of the canvas.
♦ Overturn an empty bowl and place it on one side of the canvas, so that when you remove it a part of the canvas is still blank. Using a black crayon, draw anything for your loved one in that empty space.
PS: Do not forget to write a Holi message.

LAMPSHADE 
You’ll need: An old glass bottle, glass paint, handmade paper, cardboard, LED lights and an adapter.
How to: 
♦ Draw whatever design you want on the glass bottle and using glass paint, fill it with colour. If you are too lazy, pick an Old Monk bottle as the designs are already made and you can fill it with paint. Let it dry overnight. 
♦ If the mouth of the bottle is not open, use a sharp object to prise it open. 
♦ Insert LED lights and keep the adapter outside. If you fail to do this step, take help from an electrician. (The bonus of LED lights over fairy lights is that they are more long-lasting and don’t heat up the glass at all.)
♦ Make the shade on top using handmade paper. Cut out a circle and make it into a cone. 
♦ Use cardboard to make a cylinder on top of the mouth of the bottle and use that as a base for the shade.

MIRROR 
You’ll need: Mirror, thermocol, cutter and paint.
How to: 
♦ Draw different shapes on the thermocol and then cut it accordingly.
♦ Paint the cut-out and stick them on the border of the mirror.

PHOTOREEL SCRAPBOOK
Things needed: Thermocol sheet, cardboard, chart paper, photographs, glue gun, metallic pen, puncher, ribbon and a CD.
How to: 
♦ Using a CD as a stencil, sketch an outline of a circle on a thermocol sheet and cut along this outline. Make two of these and cover them with chart paper. 
♦ Next, roll a piece of cardboard to form a cylinder. To the ends of this cylinder, stick the thermocol disks and the basic structure for your photoreel is ready.
♦ Cut out a long, rectangular piece of chart paper with its breadth equal to the height of the cylinder. 
♦ Paste one end of this chart paper on the cardboard cylinder and using a puncher, punch a hole on the other end. 
♦ Now, paste your favourite holi pictures along the length of the chart paper, leaving little a space in between pictures. Draw little spaced lines in between pictures with a metallic pen to give it a reel-like look. Slowly coil this chart paper over the cardboard cylinder. 
♦ Put a ribbon through the punched end of the chart paper and wrap it around the cylinder, to keep the photoreel in place.

CUTLERY HOLDER 
You’ll need: Mason jar, paint and ribbons
How to:
♦ Paint the mason jar in any design you like. 
♦ Tie ribbons around the neck of the jar to decorate it further.

Text: Malancha Dasgupta, Rupsha Bhadra and Rushabh Shah