Easy dot rangoli design #3: an 11×11 grid of dots, 85 of them coloured, with four lines of symmetry. Good for a doorstep, a Diwali corner or a school competition.
Mark an 11×11 grid of dots with chalk, about 4 to 5 cm apart for a doorstep. Then you'll fill:
Use rangoli powder, coloured rice, flower petals or diyas for the dots. The white stars look best in rice flour or chalk.
Work outwards from the centre, one square ring at a time. Every ring is the same on all four sides, so finish one side and copy it to the other three.
Put one white dot in the very centre. Everything else grows out from here.
Ring 1 is the square of 8 dots touching the centre. Place just four pink dots, one in the middle of each side, in line with the centre. The gaps let the next ring breathe.
Place just four white dots, one in the middle of each side, in line with the centre. The gaps let the next ring breathe.
Place 20 dots: 12 red and 8 white. Start with the middle dot of each side, in line with the centre, in red. Leave the four corners of this ring empty. Then fill in each side so it mirrors the others.
Place 24 peacock blue dots. Start with the middle dot of each side, in line with the centre. Then fill in each side so it mirrors the others.
Place 32 pink dots. Start with the middle dot of each side, in line with the centre. Then fill in each side so it mirrors the others.