7 Independence Day DIY Decorations You Can Make At Home

Independence Day is here, and we couldn't be more excited about painting the town red with orange, white and green, the colors of our Indian tricolor. These colors make us feel patriotic just by the sight of them, which is why we often celebrate Independence Day and Republic Day with a lot of things made in these three colors.

Here are a few everyday things that you can make in the colors of Indian tricolor.

1. Tricolor Thumbprint Bookmark
Take a 1-inch wide and 4-inches long white cardstock and make a hole at the top of it using a punch or a pen. Now dip your thumb in thick orange water color. Using the painted thumb, place your thumbprint onto the bookmark from the left and then from the right. This would take the shape of a heart. Repeat the same with green color and do as many impressions as you want. The white in the background would give it the desired color.

2. Tricolor Popsicle Stick Coaster
Take 12 sticks and orange, white and green water colors along glue, a blue pen and a small round cap from a plastic bottle. Place three sticks vertically (in line) as the base and follow it by the remaining nine sticks painted in the colors of the tricolor. Stick them together with glue before making a circle using the blue pen and cap. The 24 spokes can be made using the pen inside the circle.

3. Tricolor Popsicle Stick Flag
Using the same method as above, you can also make a flag. Just place two sticks vertically to form a long stick and instead of joining nine sticks, join six sticks (two per color). Rest procedure is just the same, and you would have a flag in your hand at the end of this DIY tutorial.

4. Tricolor Popsicle Badge
Take white card paper and cut it in the shape of a kite. Using sketch pens, color the upper area in orange and the lower area in green, leaving the middle part as white. This can be used as pinned badges to be wore on your shirts on Independence Day.

5. Tricolor Nail Art
Nothing much to describe, use orange, white and green nail polishes to paint your nails in the color of the tricolor. You can choose not to go for the blue wheel and spokes if you are not that good with making circles on smaller areas.

6. Tricolor Food Salad
You would need papayas, bananas and kiwis to make a food salad in the color of the Indian tricolor.

7. Tricolor Quill Card
Take soft paper (a lot of it) that can be rolled towards the inside, paint them in orange, white (if not already white), and green. For the base, tape long strips of paper together in three colors. Depending on the availability of the paper, glue orange paper rolls over the orange stick, white paper rolls over the white one and blue paper rolls over the blue one. Tie them together using a ribbon and you have a perfect wall decor for Independence Day.