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Rangoli Classes in the UAE

Symmetry you draw on the floor, from memory

Rangoli is drawn on the floor, in loose powder, with no eraser and no undo — and it is meant to be swept away the next morning. That combination teaches something a sketchbook cannot: plan the whole thing before you commit, because the first line already decides the last.

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Why families choose us

Symmetry you draw on the floor, from memory

A drawing class trains the hand on paper, at a desk, at eye level. Rangoli is a different plane, a different scale and an unforgiving medium, and most children who draw well on paper are lost the first time they work on the ground. We start with the dot grid, because symmetry on a floor is arithmetic before it is art.

Beyond Dubai, we teach families across Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah. The pattern is consistent across the Emirates: parents on long working hours, children in Indian curriculum schools, and a wish for something rooted that does not depend on a weekend drive.

The dot grid (chukki) taught first — the structure everything hangs on

Symmetry worked out rather than guessed, so a design closes correctly

Powder control — the pinch, the pour, and a steady continuous line

Regional styles distinguished: kolam, muggu, alpana, rangoli

Festival designs timed for Diwali, Pongal, Ugadi and Onam

Practised on paper before floor, so no material is wasted learning

Timings

Batch timings for the UAE

Live classes on GST, scheduled around your week rather than ours.

The UAE weekend, Friday and Saturday, is what we schedule around, along with weekday 5:00 to 7:30 PM GST batches. The one-and-a-half-hour offset from India means almost any slot works for both ends.

Abu Dhabi and Sharjah follow Dubai in numbers. Because the timezone is so convenient, UAE families are also the most likely to take two classes a week.

What your child gains

What your child walks away able to do

A symmetrical dot-grid design completed unaided

A steady powder line and an even, controlled fill

Understanding of the regional traditions and what distinguishes them

A festival rangoli the child can lay at home without help

The curriculum

Rangoli Classes, module by module

What a year of rangoli classes actually covers, in the order we teach it.

01

The Dot Grid

Chukki and pulli. Counting, spacing, and why the grid is the whole design before a line is drawn.

02

Line and Loop

The kolam loop that travels around dots without lifting. Hand control at floor scale.

03

Symmetry

Four-fold and eight-fold. Working the repeat out so a design closes rather than nearly closes.

04

Powder and Colour

The pinch grip, filling evenly, blending edges, and stopping colours bleeding into each other.

05

Regional Traditions

Tamil kolam, Andhra muggu, Bengali alpana, Maharashtrian rangoli — what actually differs between them.

06

A Festival Piece

A full design planned, gridded and laid for the nearest festival, photographed for the showcase.

Prefer a room, paper and paint on a table?

Arts & Painting is the one class we teach in person as well as online. Offline batches run at our arts studio in Jayanagar, Bengaluru, with the same mentors and the same curriculum as the online batches. Families outside Bengaluru take the online batches, which cover the identical curriculum.

Getting started is easy

Three simple steps to begin

1. Tell us about your child

Call or WhatsApp us and say where your child is starting from. For rangoli classes that matters — the mentor pitches the trial to what they can already do.

2. Free trial with a mentor

A real, live class, not a sales call. The mentor works with your child for the full session and then tells you honestly whether this is the right class of ours for them.

3. Pick a slot that survives the school week

We place your child in a batch built for GST. The UAE weekend, Friday and Saturday, is what we schedule around, along with weekday 5:00 to 7:30 PM GST batches.

The Ramayana classes are the highlight of my daughter’s week. She now teaches us the values she learns. As NRI parents in Dubai, this connection to our culture is priceless.
Kavya ReddyDubai, UAEParent of Saanvi, 8
Questions

Rangoli Classes in the UAE, FAQs

The mentor’s camera looks down at their floor and the child sets a phone or laptop to do the same, so both sides see the work from above. Families in the UAE usually give the child a corner of the floor or a large sheet of card; either works.

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