Festive craft guide
Pipe Cleaner Diwali Craft & Decoration Ideas
Pipe cleaners are easy to bend around simple frames, making them useful for lightweight Diwali decorations. Combine red, yellow, orange and golden-brown chenille stems for lanterns, diya borders, torans and table décor.
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Materials to keep ready
- • 8mm pipe cleaners in your chosen colours
- • Child-safe scissors with adult supervision
- • Card, thread or a lightweight craft frame
- • Craft glue where the design needs extra support
Diwali craft ideas with pipe cleaners
Mini Akash Kandil
Form several equal loops around a small card or wire frame, join them at the top and bottom, then add a contrasting chenille-stem border and hanging tassels.
Pipe-cleaner toran
Twist short loops into leaf or flower shapes, connect them along a longer stem and alternate two or three festive colours.
Diya decoration
Shape an oval bowl and pointed flame, then outline the form with yellow, orange or red fuzzy wire for a lightweight wall or card decoration.
Useful colours for this project
Choose colours to match your decoration rather than treating the combinations as fixed rules.
Safety: Pipe cleaners contain a flexible wire core. Adults should supervise children, cover or fold sharp ends, and keep decorations away from diyas, candles and other open flames.