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Bihu looks incomplete without adorning your house with proper decorations and craft items. Here are a few ideas on Bihu crafts to adorn your house with.

Bihu Crafts

Bihu, a festival of colors and revelry, celebrates the spirit of life and is celebrated according to the life cycle of the paddy crop. As rice is a staple crop of Assam, it symbolizes life or what life is about. There are three Bihus celebrated in Assam and these mark the three phases in agriculture or rather paddy farming. Rongali Bihu is celebrated when the seeds are sown, Kati Bihu when the saplings are relocated, and the third one is Magh Bihu which is celebrated during the harvesting season. Around Bihu, people decorate their houses with various kind of art and crafts items because the Assamese people believe in preparing the decorations at home, as it give an aura of completeness to the house. These crafts are easy to prepare and can be crafted without much hassle. So here are a few items you can prepare by yourself at home.

Bihu Craft Ideas

Decorative Lamps

Items Needed:
Colorful Molding Clay, Vegetable oil, Corn oil, Wick, Craft paints

Procedure:
Sparkler for Bihu

Items Needed:
Empty toiler paper roll, Red construction paper, Wick, Tape, Glue

Procedure:
Candy Bihu Bouquet

Items Needed:
5 Silk Rose Buds, a bunch of Pearly, 2 Thin Gauge wires, 1 Thick Gauge wire, 9 Lollipops, Silk Leaves, Green or White stem tape, Ribbon

Procedure:
Bihu candle

Items Needed:
Peppermint Pattie, Lifesavers, Small plastic flower, Bow, Other candies, Ribbon,
Cellophane tape, Glue

Procedure:
Flower broom

Items Needed:
Straw broom- 12 inches, Straw hat- 6 inches, Ruffle lace trim- 6 yards, Clothespins, Hot Glue Gun, Scissors, Brown cardboard (Lightweight), Silk flowers, Ribbon

Procedure: