Are you looking for a super simple recipe on how to make natural ecofriendly holi colors at home this year? Check out this tutorial where I tell you how to do that with kids from your kitchen ingredients. This year, let us play Holi with natural colors & refuse synthetic toxic colors!
Holi is a festival of colors & being a North Indian, I have enjoyed this festival immensely all these years. But in the recent past, I have become more aware towards nature & I really hate to see artificial synthetic toxic colors being used to smear each other. The water & soil are being polluted in the name of the festival & our skin and bodies are prone to so many issues if we use these colors.
Last year, my son was 2 & I gave him plain simple water with a pichkari to play Holi with his friends. I also made a simple mixture of flour & turmeric to make yellow natural Holi color. This year I decided to make some more natural colors with my son.
Using Rice Flour & Food Grade Colors
Watch this video below to see my 3 year old son making his own natural Holi colors (dry Gulaal). All you need is rice flour, water & food grade colors. Instead of food grade colors, you can also use turmeric for yellow, beetroot for red & spinach for green.
You might like other fun activities me & my son are doing this Spring season here in this YouTube Playlist.
Using Real Flowers
You can sun dry rose or hibiscus for dry red color, tesu for dry saffron color, grind them & mix some flour to make the consistency nicer.
You can boil marigold flower in water for wet yellow color.
You might like this Holi song that describes the story of Holi in simple terms. Click here to watch.
Using Leaves/Vegetables
You can mix turmeric powder with any flour to make dry yellow color
You can mix heena powder with any flour to make dry green color
You can boil pieces of beetroot in water and strain the water for wet purple/maroon color
You might want to check out these simple fun activities for Holi that you can do with your kids. Click HERE to browse.
Do you have any more ideas, suggestions or recipes to make natural Holi colors? I would love to know! Please share with me in comments below.
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