Holi can be more safe  and extra enjoyable, if you play it with natural colors. It is very easy to prepare them can can be made at home within few hours. Here we give the recipe of creating natural colors.
Green – Mix pure mehendi powder with some flour to get a dry green colour. When mixed with water, the paste will leave a slight orange shade on the skin. Dried and crushed gulmohar tree leaves can also be used for green colour.
Yellow – Take two spoons of turmeric powder with double the quantity of besan and mix. Flowers like amaltas, marigold, black babul can be crushed and mixed with water to get a yellow coloured paste.
Red – Use red sandalwood powder and add crushed hibiscus flowers to it.
Blue – Dried jacaranda flowers can be crushed and mixed with water or flour.
Saffron – Tesu of palash flowers soaked in water overnight. For better results, flowers can be boiled in water to get a yellowish-orange colour.
Magenta – Slice or grate one beetroot and soak in a litre of water. Boil or leave overnight for a deeper shade. Boil the peels of pink onions in half a litre of water for an orange-pink shade.
Brown – ‘Kattha’ – catechu extracted from the acacia tree – can be mixed with water to get a brownish shade. Tea and coffee leaves can be boiled in water to get a dark brown shade.
Black – Boil dried fruits of amla in a vessel and leave overnight. Dilute with water and use.