Lohri festival decoration ideas – Let’s prepare for Lohri celebrations

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Lohri festival decoration ideas for your home – Festival of Lohri is not only about sharing Lohri wishes and Lohri songs. Let’s decorate for a Lohri party at your home. 

Happy Lohri wishes to you and your family. As the festival of Lohri comes, it marks the beginning of celebrations with family and friends. When you share the Lohri songs and wishes with your dear ones, you bid farewell to the cold winters. Lohri celebrations are a way to welcome the glory of the sun into our lives. And the best way to feel the warmth in your life is by having a Lohri party. Call your pals and create some beautiful memories as you sing and dance around the glowing bonfire. 

lohri bonfire

Wait, are you worried about how and where of the Lohri fire, the party supplies and the invitations? Drop all your worries as we have thought out every detail of the festival celebrations at your place. You know decorating for the festival of Lohri is all about bringing the glow of gold in every corner of your home. Shine on!


Lohri decoration ideas

For the Bonfire

For the delicious offerings to the Lohri Bonfire, boost the festive mood with beautiful plates and bowls. The decorative plates can bring a traditional touch to your celebrations. You can also choose for a more contemporary vibe with handcrafted platters and bowls.

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lohri basket
Decorative Metal Basket for Bonfire offerings

lohri dinner plate
Peacock Platter in Porcelain for Lohri savouries and sweets

For sharing gifts and prasad

After the joyful dancing and singing around the bonfire, family and friends exchange gifts and sweets such as jaggery, til ke laddoo, peanuts, popcorn and gajak. For this Lohri, we suggest you offer the winter sweets and savouries in style. Check out the party favour boxes here – surely these boxes are too good to resist.

lohri sweets

For Lohri dinner

Lohri is a night to feast on the sumptuous North Indian delicacy of Makki ki roti and sarsoon ka saag. Along with the meal, several accompaniments are also served, such as jaggery, butter and radish salad. Now your Lohri party is a perfect occasion for buying a decorative dinner set. Here is our suggestion, hand-picked and stylishly selected for you.

Lohri festival bowls
Festive Bowls for Lohri dinner

For your home

Don’t forget to welcome your guests with beautiful fairy lights decoration at your home entry door. The glow of lights in a way signifies the glow of Lohri bonfire, bringing in wonderful auspicious times to your home.

 Fairy String Lights
Blossom Flower Fairy String Lights


Lohri festival

Why is Lohri celebrated?

The festival of Lohri is celebrated across North India. The farmers at Punjab celebrate Lohri with great pomp and show as the festival marks the start of the crop harvesting season. Lohri rituals express gratitude to the glorious Sun-god and welcome the warmth into our lives.


Lohri festival celebration

How is Lohri celebrated?
Celebrations for the festival of Lohri is celebrated begin in the evening hours, and the day is taken for preparations.

  1. Preparation

    During the daytime, the children and women bring fresh winter sweets and savouries. Five delicacies – jaggery, til ke ladoo, peanuts, popcorn and gajak – are served on decorated plates. On the other hand, the men and children of the household assemble a bonfire with a dry pile of wood logs near their home’s entry.

  2. Bonfire

    Just before the sunset, the family gets dressed in new clothes and comes together. The bonfire is lit up, and the whole group begins to sing and dance around the glowing fire. As the custom goes, the family throws winter delicacies into the fire while dancing.

  3. Sharing gifts

    As the fire begins to settle, gifts and sweets are exchanged within the neighbours and friends

  4. Lohri Dinner

    On the Lohri night, a special Punjabi meal is prepared – makke ki roti and sarsoon ka saag. The entire family sits together to enjoy the meal and cherish the happy times ahead.