Sign in

Republic Day 2025 DIY decor ideas to try at home: Patriotic orange, green, white colour decorations and tips

Updated on: Jan 24, 2025, 08:23:08 IST
Share
Share via
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
Copy link
  • copy link
Try creative tricolour paper craft for decor. (Picture courtesy: YouTube/ Crafting with Rachna)
Try creative tricolour paper craft for decor. (Picture courtesy: YouTube/ Crafting with Rachna)

Republic Day 2025 decor tips and tutorials: Remember to be creative and have fun while decorating your home and outdoor spaces for Republic Day!

Republic Day 2025: As India celebrates its 76th Republic Day to honour the adoption of the Indian Constitution, it's the perfect time to channel your spirit of patriotism and infuse your home with vibrant hues of tricolour. With simple, fun, and easy DIY decoration ideas, you can create a patriotic atmosphere at home while you and your family tune in to watch the Republic Day parade on January 26.

Some may even wonder about buying decorations from the store. While there's nothing wrong with it, investing time and effort into creating your own DIY decorations adds a personal touch that store-bought items can't match. Not only do you get to personalise the designs to your liking, but it also becomes a creative and meaningful activity for the whole family.

All family members can pitch in to make the DIY decorations for Republic Day celebrations, turning it into a fun-filled activity that is full of lessons, as elders narrate stories of freedom fighters and the independence struggle to children. Young kids get to learn a lot.

To start with, keep orange, green, and white as the colours for all your decorations, to mimic the tricolour flag. The addition of any other colour in it will not evoke Republic Day energy.

Here are some easy DIY decoration ideas for Republic Day.

ALSO READ: Republic Day 2025 parade: How to book Republic Day tickets online, offline? Check dates, timing, prices, locations

DIY paper crafts

DIY paper crafts involve creatively cutting, and glueing different coloured papers into innovative shapes and designs. This list takes care of all paper craft needs- from DIY badges to wear during the Republic Day Parade show to home decor like a lantern and tricolour wind chime. Some of the paper crafts like 3D tricolour stars can be strung on a thread and attached to the wall.

Similarly, crafts can be made from quilling strips as well, where paper pieces are rolled and glued into intricate designs.

Children particularly love doing paper crafts like quilling so it can also be a good bonding activity with them. But ensure safety with scissors.

The list below contains the following paper craft ideas that can be tried with kids:

  • Quilling ideas
  • Tricolour badge
  • Suspended wind chime-like decor
  • 3D star
  • 3D flower
  • Lantern
  • Flowerpot
  • Tricolour tree

Fabric decor

While children have fun with paper crafts, turn your fabric style in sync with Republic Day's colours. Feature the same tricolour in your fabric. It can range from changing sofa cushion covers into tri colours to colouring a tote bag with tricolour-smeared handprints.

ALSO READ: Republic Day 2025: Chief guest, theme, history and significance; here's all you should know about January 26

  • Adrija Dey
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Adrija Dey

    Adrija Dey’s proclivity for observation fuels her storytelling instinct. As a lifestyle journalist, she crafts compelling, relatable narratives across diverse touchpoints of the human experience, including wellness, mental health, relationships, interior design, home decor, food, travel, and fashion that gently nudge readers toward living a little better. For her, stories exist in flesh and bones, carried by human vessels and shaped through everyday endeavours. It is the small stories we live and share that make us human. After all, humans and their lores are the most natural and raw repositories of stories, and uncovering them, for her, is akin to peeling an orange under a winter afternoon sun. Always up for a chat, she believes the best stories come from unfiltered yapping, where "too much information" is kind of the point. A graduate of Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, and an alumna of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, Adrija spends her idle hours cocooned with herbal tea and a gripping thriller, scribbling inner monologues she loosely calls poetic pieces, often with her succulents in attendance. On lazier days, she can be found binge-watching, for the nth time, one from her comfort-show holy trinity: The Office (US), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, or Modern Family. Dancing by herself to her peppy playlists, however, is an everyday ritual she swears by religiously.Read More

Explore the latest Lifestyle News on health, fashion, travel, relationships, food and festivals. Find useful tips, expert advice, trends and inspiring stories for everyday living.