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Easy rangoli designs - beginners

Though I have drawn all the designs myself personally I am thankful to my family for the inputs, information and help in drafting all the posts so far.  I have used the terms kolam  rangoli quite freely in all the posts. Probably there would have been differences based on classical (!) explanations in the past but today kolams can also be colourful like rangolis both in the free hand and dots type  I find that even the terms rangoli kolam and kolam rangoli are used at  present. The only area where I think kolam are different are in sikku kolam and arisi maavu kolam. Both are beautiful, challenging and can be intricate . Rangoli is muggulu in Telugu and so this post will be useful for those in search of small and simple muggulu for beginners.  This post   may have answers  kutty rangoli /kolam designs The rangoli in the image below is one of the basic designs that can be used for learning.   Form a star with two inverted triangles.   ...

Easy rangoli hacks for Diwali festival

I usually share traditional rangoli on social media.

There were several requests for rangoli tips for beginners including easiest methods of drawing for festivals like Dhanteras, Bhaj Dooj, Lakshmi Pooja and of course Dipavali.

 I started sharing designs with tools available at home bangles, old CDs, spoons.  etc.  The advantage is we get the simplest rangoli in the shortest possible time. 

They are also perfectly symmetrical.  Later many on social media started trying their own versions.  

After trying these simple rangoli hacks, please also read the post on a complicated rangoli technique that is rare 

Quick Diwali rangoli banane wala hacks 
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How to make easy rangoli for Diwali - next step 
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Rangoli tricks for Diwali - next image 
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Two rangoli designs above and below showing the step-by-step procedure to create these simple rangoli design that can be made use of for Diwali festival decoration at home. Idea for another quick rangoli design.
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Place the cups in a pattern, fill rangoli colours with thick lines around and gently push the paper cups and remove them.
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Quick and easy rangoli for Diwali is ready !
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The first rangoli makes use of now what is the ubiquitous paper cup.  When viewers on Facebook Page and YouTube requested me for easy methods to create rangoli designs since they were not comfortable with the traditional finger technique that we use in kolam.  I put myself in their shoes and thus these methods were born.  One rangoli video made using paper cups went so viral on my Facebook Page it reached nearly 15 million views!
The next design rangoli makes use of CD and bangles.  The photos below should be self-explanatory. 
The arrangement of the tools and patterns drawn are our choice.
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Easy quick rangoli - next photo
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One of the simple rangoli ideas on this website is ready for display
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Small is beautiful, as they say, we can convey the message of beauty of rangoli through such small n simple designs also.  We need not get intimidated by big rangolis that are also drawn during festivals.  
The next rangoli design using just a bangle, bullets (thick dots) and pencil 
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Another view of the easy small rangoli for Diwali
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It is ready one of the small rangoli ideas 
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One more rangoli using simple rangoli hacks.A simple circular colourful rangoli for Dipavali festival
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Draw a perfect circle using a tool and form patterns with caps
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Step by step easy rangoli for beginners - one more pic
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Place bullets and form flower designs with cotton bud. Using a toothpick or cotton bud form patterns at centre also
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Simple rangoli hacks for Diwali and New Year 
This is a fusion of a traditional rangoli, only the circle is drawn with a tool.  The spirals and other patterns are drawn free hand. The trick in drawing the spiral is that it should be drawn in a single stroke to get a beautiful and uniform pattern.  If we draw in two or three steps it will be non-uniform with joints.  
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Small round rangoli design for festival - try it 
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Flower designs with rangoli colours and cotton bud or toothpick
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Another design with rangoli tools at home.
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Mark the dot grid you would like the rangoli design to be with.  Place more colours called bullets.  Using toothpick, cotton bud or matchstick form floral patterns.  Complete the rangoli as per your imagination. 
Very easy rangoli hack with bangles for Deepavali
We can create really awesome rangoli using simple hacks with bangles and cotton bud / pencil.  See the pictures to follow this easy trick.
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The steps for this square rangoli design, with extensions 
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If you are looking for quick rangoli designs for Diwali, easy and fast rangoli, unique too you may try one of the ideas shared here.

Most of the ideas and techniques shared here do not involve the use of the traditional rangoli making methods using fingers.  They are made directly with tools available at home. Only where circles and squares are needed at the centre, I have used white rangoli powder. I liked both the patterns created using paper cups. 

 Continuing from the beginning of the post, a rangoli created using paper cups (not the ones shared here) became so viral that it crossed one million views with a few hours and 10 million views in a couple of days.  One crore view for an Indian rangoli video going viral throughout the world was really excellent experience may be because of the uniqueness in easy way to make rangoli.

I have the principle of replying to all comments on social media.  I may have missed a few due to any reasons beyond my control.  For this video there were hundreds of comments and my hands ached replying to each one of them. 

The interesting fact was that unintentionally I had given my YouTube channel link in the description for this video (nowadays once monetisation has been enabled by Facebook, adding links in the description is not advisable) and as a result a few videos on YouTube became viral too:)  

Make a note of these ideas for Dhanteras rangoli easy and simple or Dhanteras rangoli aasan.

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