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Navratri Golu Theme Ideas

Navratri Golu Theme Ideas

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 10:30 pm by Ambaa Choate

Navratri Golu Theme Ideas 2015-03-13T22:30:45-04:00 Ambaa Choate

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Navratri starts on the 25th of this month, so now is a great time to start working on my favorite part:

The Golu Doll Display!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/172908657/ramayana-wooden-peg-doll-playset

The fun part and also the challenging part of creating your golu display is thinking up your theme. What dolls, figures, and scenes do you want to create?

This is a great activity to do with children (as long as they aren’t handling figurines too delicate for their age!) and you can tell stories about the dolls as you arrange them or let your children add their own dolls and action figures to the scene!

Hopefully for next year my Etsy shop will have a Navratri advent calendar so American Hindu children can participate in this traditional Christmas ritual of counting down. There will be a box for each night of Navratri and the children open the box to find a new figure for the Golu each night! That’s my plan, anyway.

Here are some theme ideas for you…

Geeky

The Hobbit

Doctor Who

Harry Potter

Star Wars

Firefly

Classics

A Wedding

https://aburstofflavor.wordpress.com/tag/navarathri/

A Parade

A Birthday Party

Village

http://www.pearlandoyster.com/navratri-kholu-2012/

Dance Recital

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/533535887077403979/

Religious

Satyavrata/Manu’s boat

“Matsya asked Satyavrata to collect herbs, seeds and animals, to assemble all the seven rishis (Saptarishis) and wait. He advised to build a giant boat and fill it up with all the flora and fauna on the earth and that Lord Vishnu would meet him again at a selected time.” –http://www.hindudevotionalblog.com/2011/07/matsya-avatar-of-lord-vishnu-dasavatara.html

http://anushankarn.blogspot.com/2010/10/navaratri-2010-day2.html

The Pandava in the Forrest

My Etsy shop has some peg doll sets that I made originally for my own Golu Display. There’s a Ramayana Set and a Krishna’s Family set:

Stories

Fairy tales like Snow White or Little Red Riding Hood

Panchatantra stories

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Watch for more posts about Golu this year! I have a bunch of posts planned related to building your golu display!

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