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Printable Diwali Activities for Kids: An 8-Game Play Plan

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A pink and yellow paper lantern with a handle, glowing from a tea light inside, with marigolds beside it
Tia says:

  • 10 to 30 minutes each
  • Printer, crayons, scissors
  • Indoors, at a table
  • Real pages from two Diwali packs

Printable Diwali activities for kids are an easy way to fill a long festival week: print a page, play a game, make something to hang up. Here is a play plan of eight, one for each day if you like, from a night-street seek-and-find to a family game night. Diwali falls on Sunday 8 November 2026, so there is still time to print them all.

Every idea below is a real page from our two Diwali packs, Diwali Fun Time and Diwali Light Quest. If you would rather have paint-and-clay ideas that need no printer, our calm Diwali activities for kids post has six, and the easy rangoli activity is a lovely chalk follow-up.

What do you need for printable Diwali activities?

  • A printer and plain paper (the packs also come in an ink-saver black-and-white edition)
  • Crayons or coloured pencils
  • Safety scissors, a glue stick and a sharp pencil for the spinner (grown-up to push it through)
  • An LED tea light for the lantern, never a real flame inside paper
  • A few counters, buttons or small sweets to cover the bingo squares

What are the 8 Diwali activities in the play plan?

The 8-game Diwali play plan

Tick off each game as you play it. Do one a day, or pick a few for a rainy afternoon.

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  1. Colour the street in, then spot the hidden things. The page lists them as small pictures to tick, and there is a count of paper lanterns at the end. Pack: Diwali Fun Time.

    A Diwali night seek-and-find worksheet: a line-drawn street of houses with lanterns and rangoli to colour, with a row of small things to find underneath

  2. Join the dots from 1 to 20 to draw a diya, then find five differences between two festival pictures. Pack: Diwali Fun Time.

    A join-the-dots worksheet where numbers 1 to 20 make a diya, with a spot-the-five-differences picture pair below

  3. Each player has a board of festival pictures. Flip a call card, cover the matching picture, and the first to cover three in a row calls Bingo. Pack: Diwali Fun Time.

    A Diwali picture bingo worksheet with four boards of sweets, lanterns, diyas and fireworks, and cut-out call cards below

  4. Colour the sheet, cut, fold and roll it into your own kandil, then put an LED tea light inside so it glows safely. Grown-up for the cutting. Pack: Diwali Fun Time.

    A pink and yellow paper lantern with a handle, glowing from a tea light inside, with marigolds beside it

  5. Cut out 12 cards, make two teams and take turns to act out or draw what is on a card, with no words. Colour in a diya for every point. Pack: Diwali Light Quest.

    A Diwali family game night worksheet with twelve picture cards to cut out, simple rules, and a score tracker of diyas for two teams

  6. Fill in the funny words (a colour, an animal, a number) without reading the story first, then read it aloud and finish the doodles. Pack: Diwali Light Quest.

    A silly Diwali story worksheet with blanks to fill in and doodles to finish below

  7. A crowded market scene hides 12 things to find: a cat, a potter at his wheel, bunches of balloons, marigold baskets and more. Colour each one when you spot it. Pack: Diwali Light Quest.

    A busy Diwali bazaar seek-and-find worksheet, a crowded line-drawn market with a checklist of twelve things to find

  8. Colour, cut and spin a paper top and watch two colours mix into a new one. Pack: Diwali Fun Time.

    A rangoli spinner top worksheet with a striped circle in red, yellow and blue to cut out and spin
👋Keep Diwali play safe and calm
  • Use a battery tea light inside the paper lantern, and keep real diyas and candles well away from paper.
  • Keep scissors and the sharp pencil for the spinner in a grown-up's hands.
  • Short and happy wins. If a page is getting long, stop and come back to it tomorrow.

Which activity is the lantern craft?

The paper lantern is the one children remember. They colour the sheet, cut slits, roll it into a lantern and hang it by the window with an LED tea light inside. The pack also has a star lantern, folded from a coloured sheet in the same way.

A paper star lantern coloured with a flower pattern, lit from inside and hung on a garland of marigolds

A coloured paper star lantern, glowing with a tea light inside.

What do these Diwali games build?

Key Takeaway

Counting, careful looking, teamwork and a little storytelling

Seek-and-find pages and spot-the-difference train careful looking, join-the-dots practises counting to 20, bingo builds matching and turn-taking, and cutting and rolling the lantern works small hand muscles. Acting out and drawing the family game cards, and the silly story, get children talking and laughing together. It is play first, with some learning folded in.

Make the Diwali activities easier or harder

Change the game to suit your child

Little ones

  • Play bingo with one board each and let a grown-up flip the call cards.
  • Colour the night street slowly and find just three of the hidden things.
  • Let an adult do the cutting for the lantern while your child colours it.

Older kids

  • Race the clock on the bazaar hunt, then count how many baskets of marigolds you found.
  • Write the silly story yourself first, then swap the blanks with a sibling.
  • Play game night in two teams of mixed ages, with the older team drawing instead of acting.

Spin for the first Diwali game

Not sure where to start? Let the spinner pick.

Press Spin and see where it lands!

All 8 ideas
  1. Seek and find the night street
  2. Join the dots and spot five
  3. Picture bingo
  4. Make a paper lantern
  5. Act it or draw it
  6. Silly Diwali story
  7. Busy bazaar hunt
  8. Rangoli spinner top

Where can you print these Diwali pages?

All eight come from our Diwali worksheets and activities hub, which also has free pages, and from the two packs below. Diwali Fun Time is the gentler one for younger children, with counting, rangoli, crafts and stories; Diwali Light Quest has longer puzzles, stories and a science page for older children.

Questions parents ask about Diwali activities

When is Diwali in 2026?
Diwali falls on Sunday 8 November 2026. Dates differ a little by region and calendar, so check with your family or community if you are planning around the exact day.
Can I use these printable Diwali activities in a classroom?
They work well for a small group or a festival-week table. Bingo and the act-it-or-draw-it game are especially good for teams.
Do I need a colour printer?
No. Each pack has a black-and-white ink-saver edition, and the children colour the pages themselves.
Is the paper lantern safe?
Use a battery LED tea light inside, never a real flame, and keep scissors in a grown-up's hands for the cutting.
What if my child is not familiar with Diwali?
That is fine. The games are about looking, matching, counting and storytelling, and they are a friendly way to talk about the festival of lights.
Hemsweta Jain (Teacher Cheena), founder of RaisoActive

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Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena

MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai

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