Traditional craft represent our Indian culture

The shaking head doll represents culture, customs, and traditions.

Hello, everyone, here is my second entry for this month's cultural diversity contest. Culture, craft, art, and diversity are evident in every part of my homeland, and I have always respected it. Many things cannot simply be expressed through writing or shown in photos or sketches. They have to be lived and experienced.

Last time, I tried North Indian puppet making. Today, I will provide a small tutorial on South Indian doll making using leftover cut-out cloths, old cloth, coconut shells, beads, glitters, an empty medicine plastic bottle, and wire. We use whatever we find useful recycled material to create this craft.

Coconut shell
Different cutout cloth pieces, and sewing thread, needle.
Small empty plastic bottle
Wire
Cotton
Wool yarn pink and dark blue (I don't have black )
Small plastic ball
Glitter thread and glitters
Different colored paint
Glue
Glue gun
Lace
Scissors
Spring from old pen

Using a knife clean coconut shell.

Cut the cloth 4 inches in length and 12 inches in width
12 inches of lace to make a border of the skirt.

Fixed it using glue. and kept aside

in plastic bottle insert metal wire to start the doll's arms.

used cotton to wrap around the wire.

Used wool yarn to fix cotton on the arms.

Cut the shape of blouse from orange cloth.

I fixed it by hand sewing and using a glue gun around the neck.

Hand-sewed skirt for a doll.

Tried the proper place to fix the upper body on the coconut shell. Before fixing it I did some more details on it.

Using glue from the glue gun.

The upper body is in place. I wrapped some glitter thread on both wrists.

The skirt is also fixed.

sewed lace on waistline.

decorated red scarf dupatta
using glitters.

painted the plastic ball pink

used blue wool yarn to make her hair.

After painting the eyes, nose, and lips fixed the dupatta/scarf on the head.

I attached the head with the spring from an old pen to allow the head to shake but the photos don't show the shaking action. here is my finished shaking-head doll