Craft Ideas: Eco-friendly Ganesh | Hands on Art & Craft - Class 1 PDF Download

Material Required

1. A large cup of clay
2. A bottle of water
3. A large plastic bowl to mix
4. Small beads for eyes
5. Flowers to decorate the doll

Directions to be followed 

1. Take some natural clay in the plastic bowl.
2. Add water to it and mix thoroughly to a consistency similar to chapatti dough.
   
3. Make two round balls, a large one and a small one.
4. Arrange the small ball on top of the large ball, making head and body.
   
5. Make four more balls and shape them into long ‘carrots’.
6. Attach two such ‘carrot’ shapes as hands, and other two ‘carrot’ shapes as legs.
7. Make another ‘carrot’ shape and bend it slightly, resembling ‘trunk’ of an elephant.
8. Now, make two ‘flat’ shaped ears from small balls of clay. Attach the ‘trunk’ and ‘ears’ to the idol.
9. Finally shape two small balls of clay into “tusks’. Please note that one ‘tusk’ must be long and another one ‘short’.
10. Attach both ‘tusks’ to the idol carefully.
11. Take the two black beads and place them as ‘eyes’.
12. Now your beautiful Lord Ganesha doll is complete. Adorn him with a flower.