Ganesha Idol Making

I had come across an event on Ganesha Idol making for kids organized by Clay station and was desperately interested to attend it. But sadly due to my vacation, I could not attend it in Bangalore and had thought of trying it myself at home.

I enquired about the clay/matti to be used for making idols and got to know of Shadu clay available at Kumbhar wada in Pune. Did my shopping and finally got the clay.

Shadu clay is used for making eco-friendly idols and is being encouraged everywhere. Good to see that people are getting aware about environment and preferring these eco-friendly Idols.

Let me share my experience on how I tried making the Ganesha Idol

Mixed water with the clay and prepared my dough (It’s similar to making the chapatti dough at home). I used a metal Ganesha Idol at home for my reference to make my idol :) and started off. Simplest way to prepare an idol is make balls of various sizes for body, legs, hands, head, etc and use your skills and logic to join them and give them shape.

My first Idol was this one…… Prepared it in 30 mins ;) It takes a day or 2 to get dried under the sun and then used poster colors to color them.

I wanted to make some more Idols of different types and so continued on it. Once am on something like such creative stuffs, I forget food, my routine chores…in short forget the world around me (My family knows it very well).

These are the next 2 Idols I made…

My resting Ganesha

My third ganesha

 All 3 Ganesha idols together;

Though none of the idols are that perfect and there is a lot of improvement needed in all, but you cannot get it right on one try. Practice and experience will make it possible.

Also the feeling with which I made them is what matters more to me. I was totally involved and it was a nice learning experience. I got to learn a lot from this and also made me believe that if you wish to do something, you can make that happen, nothing can stop you :D

Ganapati Bappa Morya!!

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Let me know which idol you liked the most :-)