How to make decoration at home for Ganpati festival in an eco-friendly way?

Ganpati festival is being celebrated not only in Maharashtra ,India but also it's being celebrated outside the country too .Long back the tradition was started by making clay idol of lord Ganesha at home . Later, Lokmanya Tilak puts the thought process to popularize it and celebrate as a common celebration in village/society. Today we do celebrate this festival at home as well as in society. It’s a festival of minimum 1.5 days and maximum to 11 days.
Today we have the major issue of controlling the water pollution and whatever decorative material we use to decorate at home, if it’s not eco-friendly then probably we adds pollution to the environment, at the same time various competitions is being held to win the prize for decoration. My post is written keeping in mind 

• Eco-friendly 
• Easy to make
• Simple to make 
• No expertise is required 
• No special cost required to make it 
• Very unique and eye catching

Let’s see a big list of material to make our decoration at home. Ohh sorry, no list of material, we need only colored papers and to cut the paper need a pair of scissors. 
Let’s follow below simple steps now.
I have made this year decoration at home and it suits small to medium size idol. 
Preparation:-
We would need 7 drawing sheets of one color and 2 of another color .Normally drawing sheets available in market in sizes 36 inches X 23 inches 
From each sheet, we will get 6 pieces of sizes 6 inch X 23 inches and accordingly for our decoration, we need to cut and made ready 42 pieces of one color and 14 pieces of another color of the same size as 6 inches X23 inches. No need to measure them with scale, the sizes is chosen to have zero waste from the paper sheets. 
1. Make paper petals ready

Take one piece and fold it from the centre along the length .Fold the corners towards the folded edge. We need to make two more folds again along the length on either side of the centre line and fold it outwards as shown in image one .This we need to follow for making 42 pieces of one color, I have chosen pink and same to be followed for 14 pieces too of another color, green, the only difference is we need to make last fold inside as explained in image 7.
2. Let’s make petals assembly

I have given engineering thought here on how to hold the weight of idol on the papers petals. Very simple it is. If we use the thickness of the paper to put the weight on it, it will work. As shown in image 8 , we will be making 14 groups from 56 petals what we have made ready . Each group will have 4 petals in a sequence first will be green and 2, 3, 4 will be pink 
3. Lets complete the paper Lotus 

As shown in image 9, we are aligning all 14 sets together and adjust the edges to make it equal. Hold the set at centre firmly and tie with the thread, as shown in image 10.Now try to make a circle just by pressing the petals in a direction ,however, keep no press on the centre petals , once you do it ,you will notice the circle is formed with these 56 petals . There will be no spring back action, so no need to worry about it. Now this is the last step , fold all pink petals upwards and keep the green one flat as shown in image 12.

The decoration is now ready to welcome the Ganpati Bappa. Isn’t it simple and eye catching? It is very ease,eye-catching and different.I have made this in less than an hour. In today's busy life we are getting less time to do such creativity but we always want to make it by our own hands.

Give final touch now. 

Cut the circle piece from the white paper and paste it to the lotus petals . this is required to place the Ganpati idol over it.    



For quick look, I have created the video and it's available on
YouTube ,available at this link . 
Ganpati Bappa Morya !!!