A Festival is Never Complete without a Rangoli: 10 Ganesh Chaturthi Rangoli Designs for 2020 to Enhance Your Festive Decoration

• Rangoli drawn with lines, cones and circles proportionately to form a symbolic pattern.


• Freehand rangoli that usually comprises of flowers, leaves, trees, creepers, animals, and birds.


• Religious symbols and patterns such as a conch, Swastik, moon, sun, and others that are drawn with curved lines that are joined together.


• A lotus symbol comprising of eight petals that various directions of the Universe and also a symbol of Lord Vishnu and Goddess Saraswathi.


• Square rangoli, where a big square is divided into smaller squares and each square is filled with kumkum or vermillion to praise Lord Shiva.


• Dotted rangoli, numerous dots are connected to form various figures such as birds, animals, flowers, scenery, etc.


• Portrait rangoli where the picture of the deity is drawn and elaborately decorated with flowers, colours, and lamps.

• Rangoli powder – a fine powder that is used for drawing the rangoli outline wherein the colours are filled afterward.


• Chalk – an alternative to rangoli powder where it can also be used for drawing the outline.


• Rice flour – powdered rice flour can be used for drawing a rangoli. They are environment-friendly and also serve as food for birds and insects.


• Coloured rangoli powder – powders that are made from natural colours and synthetic colours. These colours are used for decorating the rangoli.


• Fine salt – To provide a glittering effect to your beautiful rangoli, fine or powdered sea salt can be mixed with colours to create a beautiful look.


• Coarse salt/Crystal salt – The crystal salt can be used for providing a 3D effect to your rangoli when they are mixed with colours.


• Flower petals – colourful and fragrant flower petals such as rose, sunflower, marigold, and lily are used for creating a rangoli.


• Fabric colours - can be used to create a rangoli pattern with brush and lots of creativity.


• Colored stones – coloured stones and rhinestones can be used for adding an element of elegance to your rangoli.


• Pulses – colourful pulses such as toor dal, chana dal, urad dal, and various dry bean seeds can be used for drawing a rangoli.

• Before starting, organize all the essential items that you would require for drawing the rangoli.


• Always outline with chalk, so that you easily erase if you have gone wrong.


• If you are a beginner, it is safe to go for abstract designs rather than trying difficult designs.


• Explore various designs using your creativity and draw them paper before you can draw them as a rangoli.


• You can also choose a floral design or a basic geometric design of animals, birds, God and Goddess.


• If you have no colours, fill your rangoli with natural colours available at homes such as salt, pulses, turmeric, and vermillion.


• Don’t overdo the decorations as they may cloud the beauty of your rangoli design.

An awesome rangoli that is created from the religious symbol ‘Om’ in Hindi.

• With black rangoli powder, trace the trunk of Lord Ganesh by using a curve.
• Using red rangoli powder, trace the symbol ‘om’ in Hindi. The curve from the Hindi symbol must resemble the trunk drawn earlier.
• Fill the inside of the symbol with orange rangoli powder. Also, draw eyes on top to resemble Ganesh.
• Using yellow rangoli powder, draw a circle on the lower half and fill the inside as well. Using an earbud, trace abstract patterns inside the filled circle.
• Using various rangoli colours, draw s-shaped curves or squiggly lines along the outer border of the circle.,
• Place coloured powder mounds around the rangoli and flatten it using the backside of a tumbler. Once the mounds are flattened with an earbud drawn a spiral that resembles a flower.

• Use a small plastic bowl, draw two semi-circles adjacent to each other.
• Using your freehand draw a long curve that coils at the end with white rangoli powder. This should resemble the head of Lord Ganesh along with his trunk.
• Using green rangoli powder draw small ovals that are interlocked with each other to form a big pattern.
• Draw an inner boundary within the oval shape using yellow rangoli powder and fill the remaining area with blue rangoli powder.
• Fill the head of Lord Ganesh with yellow rangoli powder.
• Using your bangle, fill the inner side of the boundary by creating small mounds with pink rangoli powder.
• Using a pencil, place the pencil in the center of the mound and move the stick towards the center of the bangle to create floral patterns.
• Fill the space by drawing leaves around the flowers with green rangoli powder.

An innovative rangoli that is drawn using crystals salt and decorations using flower petals and betel leaves.

• Trace the figurine of Lord Ganesh using rangoli colors mixed with salt crystals.
• Draw two circles encasing the figure – once small circle and another circle around it.
• Fill the inside of the circles with white crystal salt and draw colour filled triangles with alternately.
• Place betel leaves around the circles and decorate the inside of the betel leaf with coloured stones and rangoli powder.
• Decorate the edges of the betel leaves with flower petals and diyas.

An elegant and beautiful rangoli that can be created using beads and coloured stones.

• Take white cardboard and trace the figure of Lord Ganesh with a pencil.
• Now using glue, stick golden beads around the figure of Lord Ganesh to create an outline.
• Fill the inside of the figure with coloured stones of various sizes – red, pink, blue and green.
• Place two red coloured stones for the eyes and create a crown using white zircon stones that are embedded with coloured stones as well.

Flowers rangolis are famous in Kerala and are drawn during festive occasions such as Onam, Diwali and Ganesh Chaturthi.

• Trace the figurine of Lord Ganesh using chalk and then trace the outline using flower petals.
• Fill the inside of the figure with marigold, rose and jasmine flowers along with tulsi leaves.
• Fill the inside of the circles with cultured flower petals and draw color filled petals with alternately.
• You can further decorate the rangoli by placing diyas all around it or with coloured stones.

An elegant rangoli that is drawn using edible pulses that can be reused later.

• On a clean and flat surface, trace the outline of Lord Ganesh with a pencil.
• Using white beans or white urad dal trace the pencil outline to create the figure outline.
• Fill the body of Lord Ganesh with yellow channa dal and his clothes with green mung dal.
• Fill the crown and jewellery of the lord using pink masoor dal.
• Finally fill the outside the remaining space outside the figure with black beans or mustard seeds.