Dasara is around the corner. How are you guys decking up? After coming to USA, had missed celebrating this festival. I have these fond memories of my mom celebrating this festival by placing dolls, and preparing sweets and savouries for 9 days.
But after coming to USA had no option of celebrating this festival, golu dolls if I had to purchase were pretty costly, this motivated me to make my own golu dolls.In this post have brought you more information on the materials I used to make and finish these dolls.

Handmade Golu Dolls
Materials I used to make Golu dolls
Crayola Air Dry Clay
Acrylic Colours
Paint Brushes
Acrylic Gloss medium for finishing
Some useful links which you can check for more information on making these dolls.
Crayola Air Dry Clay
DIY : Ganesha Idol
Some Images of my handmade dolls. All prepared from Crayola Air dry clay.
- Handmade dolls made out of Clay
- Kitchen utensils with Gas
- Kitchen utensils
- Gas with Plates
- Gas
- Tulsi pot
- Tulsi pot
- Wedding Set up
- Food on Banana leaf
- Food on Banana leaf
- a village woman
- Krishna being carried by Vasudeva after his birth
- Peacock on a tree
- Vegetables in Basket
- Vegetables in basket
- Gundappa Gundamma Dolls with vegetables in Basket
- Gundappa Gundamma Dolls
- Rajasthani men playing Musical Instruments.
- Rajasthani men playing Musical Instruments.
Sooo cute n pretty…loved them. A big bow to you for your patience.
Wow looks so good.Cant believe we can hand make them at home.Great job!
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thank you:) You can, all you need is clay and alot of time to work:)
Love the images and the review 🙂
Rashmi…. They are so lovely. We have never made them or bought them but I wish to try some of these this year. It adds charm to the festival.
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Hi Upasna, You can always buy them, but when I moved to USA, had very limited options and they were not too pocket friendly, that motivated me to make my own dolls. Do try its a very nice festival to celebrate with kids, you can arrange the dolls depicting the great epics Mahabhartha and Ramayana.
Awesome..you made them at home? really nice..I came to know about golu after coming to Bangalore 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 yes Deepa made them at home, after coming to USA had no options,so decided to make my own dolls:)
You are so talented and so good at this. I have never tried making clay dolls before. Beautiful work 😀
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Thank you so much! Appreciate the kind words. Give it a try and am sure you will be able to make some too.