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As I wanted to give it a traditional antique look, now its time to give them an antique touch. After it's dried off completely, You can tear off all those extra unnecessary papers. If, you find excess clay, just remove it simply with the help of your fingers and leveled the surface with talcum powder or water. So we have to take a tiny amount of clay, make it an oval shape with our figures and then, you need to squeeze it one hear to make it petal shape. For the side petal, you just take a small amount of clay and do follow the lines and spaces you have already drawn over the paper. Now, its time to put some traditional motif into the prepared base frames, and for that, we need to prepare these.
And when you start rolling, you must roll it from the center to outside. By this, you can get an uniform roll with a constant thickness. I am going to make four different wall hanging pieces and going to mount them together in one place.
DIY Temple for Home | DIY Pooja Mandir
Here I am taking these four cardboards of equal size for making the base part of the wall hanging. If you want to make a single piece of these, then you can do it also. Here I have used 4 different Indian motifs in my wall hanging. A motif is the most basic unit from which a design is formed. It is generally developed from different combinations of geometrical shapes. Motifs are repeated in different ways to create a pattern whereas patterns are repeated to create designs.

Mini one crafts.
Cardboard Temple/shrine at Home.
This is a temple where the priest acts on behalf of others. This is a prayer service ritual done by Hindus. It is most often done several times of the day. If you are looking at making a Pooja mandir, I would suggest you make a great looking one. There is no thumb rule to put Gold Acrylic color, you just apply with a light hand, it will give a very pretty antique touch.
Hi Archana, I bought the stickers from dollar tree. The materials used are easily available in any craft store. Now straighten the flap and cut the foam board as per the dimensions. This is a straight forward wooden DIY Pooja Mandir. This can be easily carried around and it is made of cherry wood. First of all, build the top of the temple then make the basic structure.
Step 1: Prepare the Cardboards
For one of the walls, I was set on the box the 32 inch slim TV came in. This box was really strong and had a wide base which meant the roof would get good support even if there were no pillars in the center to hold it. But for the other wall, I was not able to get a box of same height or length.

Cut the adhesive paper accordingly and keep aside. It has a bell and some props within to give it a cute look. I have given just double coats of each shade, with the help of a flat brush, and let them dry completely. For featuring out the motifs, you can use clay tools.
Now place the colored wooden accessories on top of the box. This looks like a tent with a well-patterned roof and decorations on the sides of the pillars. There is a platform for a miniature priest to sit. This thermocol DIY Pooja Mandir needs different sheets. Make a frame and also make provisions for pillars then join everything together. You don’t need too much to create this DIY Pooja Mandir.

Therefore a motif has a distinct identity of its own in a pattern or a design. Indian motifs have their own heritage value and are closely linked to natural, cultural, religious, and socio-economic factors prevailing in Indian society. Most of the traditional motifs are often inspired by nature. Are you looking for wall decor ideas to refresh your space?
Then I will say you are landing in the right place. In this Instructable, I will show you how to make Indian traditional wall hangings by using cardboard. The room is small but spacious enough to set up a prayer mat for meditation and prayers. Inside the temple, I needed one box to be the platform on which the idols were to be placed. I picked one that could fit nicely in the center.
This is how I have completed the framing part. And now on the most top portion, I made it a temple top structure like a flower petal. But when you are doing this part just take a half-centimeter gap from the top edge. I provided illumination using Christmas lights. I tried 2 ways - on the floor and on the wall.
Some projects might take more time to make than others, but I’m sure you would be able to get the hang of making a pooja mandir. Now by the time, the motifs got dried up , I have put black acrylic color over all the motifs and let them dry too. Now in the meantime, these also got dried off too. So in the middle parts, where we have given white color and now we need to put our selected colors over that. First I started to color on the clay work area with white acrylic color except for the middle portion. Now measure and cut the rolls to fit in the box.
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