{"id":1646,"date":"2013-01-17T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T11:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2025-02-13T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:54:56","slug":"eco-art-ideas-an-artistic-ganesha-idol-from-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/eco-art-ideas-an-artistic-ganesha-idol-from-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"An Artistic Ganesha Idol from Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><strong>Eco-Art tutorial from Munnar \u2013 Terrace Greens<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cEcological Art\u201d, also known as \u201cEco-Art\u201d is a modern form of art created from natural and bio-degradable materials like wood pulp, natural clay, leaves, bamboo, jute, etc. Eco-Art products are elegant and have a charm of their own. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modelling with our own hands is a delightful activity and satisfies our creative urge. Let us see how to make an attractive idol of Lord Ganesha with commonly available natural clay. Just follow the simple steps given here.<\/p>\n<p>DO IT YOURSELF:<\/p>\n<h3>Materials needed:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A large cup of clay<\/li>\n<li>A bottle of water<\/li>\n<li>A large plastic bowl to mix<\/li>\n<li>Small beads for eyes<\/li>\n<li>Flowers to decorate the doll<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shaping clay is easy if your hands are slightly wet. So take a little water and dab your hands before modelling the idol.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Steps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Take some natural clay in the plastic bowl.<\/li>\n<li>Add water to it and mix thoroughly to a consistency similar to chapatti dough.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1648\" title=\"Eco art tutorial-Making Ganesha Idol from Clay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Eco-art-tutorial-Making-Ganesha-Idol-from-Clay.png\" alt=\"Eco art tutorial-Making Ganesha Idol from Clay\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make two round balls, a large one and a small one.<\/li>\n<li>Arrange the small ball on top of the large ball, making head and body.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1650\" title=\"Eco art tutorial-How to make Ganesha Idol from Clay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Eco-art-tutorial-How-to-make-Ganesha-Idol-from-Clay.png\" alt=\"Eco art tutorial-How to make Ganesha Idol from Clay\" width=\"1140\" height=\"769\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make four more balls and shape them into long \u2018carrots\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Attach two such \u2018carrot\u2019 shapes as hands, and other two \u2018carrot\u2019 shapes as legs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1651\" title=\"Eco art tutorial-eco friendly ganesha idol from Clay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Eco-art-tutorial-eco-friendly-ganesha-idol-from-Clay.png\" alt=\"Eco art tutorial-eco friendly ganesha idol from Clay\" width=\"1140\" height=\"766\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make another \u2018carrot\u2019 shape and bend it slightly, resembling \u2018trunk\u2019 of an elephant.<\/li>\n<li>Now, make two \u2018flat\u2019 shaped ears from small balls of clay. Attach the \u2018trunk\u2019 and \u2018ears\u2019 to the idol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1652\" title=\"Eco art tutorial-Attaching Trunk and Ears- Making Ganesha Idol\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Eco-art-tutorial-Attaching-Trunk-and-Ears-Making-Ganesha-Idol.png\" alt=\"Eco art tutorial-Attaching Trunk and Ears- Making Ganesha Idol\" width=\"1140\" height=\"739\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally shape two small balls of clay into \u201ctusks\u2019. Please note that one \u2018tusk\u2019 must be long and another one \u2018short\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Attach both \u2018tusks\u2019 to the idol carefully.<\/li>\n<li>Take the two black beads and place them as \u2018eyes\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Now your beautiful Lord Ganesha doll is complete. Adorn him with a flower.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1653\" title=\"Eco art tutorial-Eco friendly Ganesha Idol-Adorning with flower\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Eco-art-tutorial-Eco-friendly-Ganesha-Idol-Adorning-with-flower.png\" alt=\"Eco art tutorial-Eco friendly Ganesha Idol-Adorning with flower\" width=\"1140\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tips:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>If you want to make it even more beautiful, you can add two more hands, and make some clay jewels too.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Look at these idols created at \u201cMunnar-Terrace Greens\u201d as part of holiday activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1654\" title=\"Munnar Terrace Greens-Holidays Activties-Eco Art-Ganesha Idol\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Munnar-Terrace-Greens-Holidays-Activties-Eco-Art-Ganesha-Idol.png\" alt=\"Munnar Terrace Greens-Holidays Activties-Eco Art-Ganesha Idol\" width=\"1140\" height=\"852\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/eco-art-a-creative-way-to-make-a-difference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eco-Art<\/a> is now a part of regular holiday activities for guests at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/resorts-hotels\/munnar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Munnar &#8211; Terrace Greens<\/a>. Our guests participate in all such activities with lots of enthusiasm and enjoy making these eco-art products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco-Art tutorial from Munnar \u2013 Terrace Greens \u201cEcological Art\u201d, also known as \u201cEco-Art\u201d is a modern form of art created from natural and bio-degradable materials like wood pulp, natural clay, leaves, bamboo, jute, etc. Eco-Art products are elegant and have a charm of their own. Modelling with our own hands is a delightful activity and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/eco-art-ideas-an-artistic-ganesha-idol-from-clay\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":8302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,108],"tags":[1174,1257,797,1258,1259,1260,1261,1262,1263,1264,1265,1266,1267,1268,1269,1270],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Sterling Holidays","author_link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/author\/sterlingholidays\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17376,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/17376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}