Kandeel demonstration

Namaste,
Today we had Mrs Sharma come into our class and demonstrate from scratch how to make a kandeel. A kandeel is an Indian lantern used for decorations during Diwali. Here are step by step instructions on how to make a kandeel. Thank you Mrs Sharma for sharing your skills with us. You are a star. Happy Diwali.

First Mrs Sharma tied four satay sticks to make a square.

The square looks like this. She made six squares.

Then she tied two squares together at an angle.

She tied four squares together to make a 3 dimensional shape.

The top and bottom of the shape is another two squares.

Mrs Sharma then cut out green cellophane paper slightly larger than the size of the square and glued the paper on four of the squares.

She then used yellow paper to cover four of the triangles and red paper for the other four triangles.

Mrs Sharma cut strips to create the tassels.

She stuck the tassels to the kandeel using tape.

She also folded and cut some patterns to paste on the kandeel. This pattern had more than one line of symmetry.

 

This is the end product of the beautiful kandeel.