Diya Wick Experiment: How Does Oil Climb a Wick? (Safe Science Lab)

Diwali Light Quest Answer Key with Explanations

Ages 7-10 · Grade 2–Grade 3Ages 7-10 · Year 3–Year 4Ages 7-10 · Class 2–Class 3Ages 7-10

A one-page answer key for grown-ups with answers and short working for pages 2 to 21, including sums, logic grids, the wick experiment, time zones and the reading passage.

Diwali Light Quest Certificate of Achievement

Ages 7-10 · Grade 2–Grade 3Ages 7-10 · Year 3–Year 4Ages 7-10 · Class 2–Class 3Ages 7-10

A printable certificate for children who solve the lamp puzzles in the Diwali Light Quest pack. It has boxes for Warm-up, Challenge and Expert levels and space for a signature and date.

Diwali Word Search, Secret Greeting Code and Word Origins

Ages 7-10 · Grade 2–Grade 3Ages 7-10 · Year 3–Year 4Ages 7-10 · Class 2–Class 3Ages 7-10

Children find 12 hidden Diwali words, decode a greeting that moves each letter three steps, code a word of their own and learn that Deepavali joins two old Sanskrit words meaning lamp and row.

Street of Lights: Tally Chart, Bar Graph, Mean, Mode and Range

Ages 7-10 · Grade 2–Grade 3Ages 7-10 · Year 3–Year 4Ages 7-10 · Class 2–Class 3Ages 7-10

Children read tally marks for eight houses, write the numbers, draw a bar graph with a scale of 1 square for 2 diyas and find the total, mean, mode, range and median.

Four Families Logic: Diwali Festivals Logic Grid Puzzle

Ages 7-10 · Grade 2–Grade 3Ages 7-10 · Year 3–Year 4Ages 7-10 · Class 2–Class 3Ages 7-10

Children use six clues to solve a logic grid with four families and four festivals of light, then draw lines to match each festival to what its families light or do and write two questions to ask.

Rangoli Symmetry Lab: Mirror Lines and Rotations Worksheet

Ages 7-10 · Grade 2–Grade 3Ages 7-10 · Year 3–Year 4Ages 7-10 · Class 2–Class 3Ages 7-10

Children draw mirror lines on shapes and count them, count how many turns make a shape look the same, and complete a rangoli across a vertical and a horizontal mirror line.

Eco Diwali Challenge: Average, Sorting and Planning a Kinder Festival

Ages 7-10 · Grade 2–Grade 3Ages 7-10 · Year 3–Year 4Ages 7-10 · Class 2–Class 3Ages 7-10

Children find totals and the mean from a table of plastic items before and after swapping four for clay, steel or cloth, sort ten items into compost, recycle, reuse or bin and plan five eco actions that add to 10 points.

Ladders and Lamps: Diwali Board Game for Kids

Ages 7-10 · Grade 2–Grade 3Ages 7-10 · Year 3–Year 4Ages 7-10 · Class 2–Class 3Ages 7-10

Children play a ladders-and-lamps board game where good deeds like sharing sweets are ladders and messy or unsafe choices are slides, then work out the shortest route and the biggest ladder and slide.

Diwali Fire Safety for Kids: Safe or Not Safe Worksheet

Ages 4-6 · Pre-K–KindergartenAges 4-6 · Reception–Year 1Ages 4-6 · LKG–UKGAges 4-6

Children look at six pictures and mark each as safe or not safe, circle the four things needed near fireworks, and show where to stand by drawing themselves behind the safe-distance line.

Lantern Light Lab: Navratri Garba Pot Light Experiment

Ages 7-11 · Grade 2–Grade 3Ages 7-11 · Year 3–Year 4Ages 7-11 · Class 2–Class 3Ages 7-11

NavratriFestivals

Children make holes in a paper cup, shine a torch through it and see one spot of light for each hole. They predict and record what happens as they move further from the wall, and explain the results and why a real garba pot needs holes.

Vijayadashami Challenge: Vidyarambham, Dussehra and Calendar Maths

Ages 7-11 · Grade 2–Grade 3Ages 7-11 · Year 3–Year 4Ages 7-11 · Class 2–Class 3Ages 7-11

NavratriFestivals

Children read about Saraswati, Vidyarambham and Dussehra. They time themselves writing letters in a rice tray and draw a bar chart, plan reading a 60-page book with division, remainders and calendar dates, and multiply and use fractions with Ravana figures.

Ganesha Colouring Page for Ganesh Chaturthi

Ages 4-8 · Pre-K–Grade 2Ages 4-8 · Reception–Year 3Ages 4-8 · LKG–Class 2Ages 4-8

ColoringFestivals

Children learn that Ganesh Chaturthi celebrates the arrival of Lord Ganesha and that people offer him modaks, his favourite sweet.

Mirror Rangoli: Symmetry Worksheet for Little Learners

Ages 4-6 · Pre-K–KindergartenAges 4-6 · Reception–Year 1Ages 4-6 · LKG–UKGAges 4-6

Children complete the other half of a rangoli so both sides match, choose which picture is the true mirror image, and then draw circles and diamonds on a grid and count them.

Lights for Everyone: How Families Celebrate Diwali in Different Ways

Ages 4-6 · Pre-K–KindergartenAges 4-6 · Reception–Year 1Ages 4-6 · LKG–UKGAges 4-6

Children learn that many families light lamps in their own ways: Hindu, Jain and Sikh families and families in Nepal. They read festival greetings in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali, plus the Sikh Bandi Chhor Divas greeting, and draw how their own family celebrates.

Diwali Night Sky Count and Graph: Pictograph Worksheet

Ages 4-6 · Pre-K–KindergartenAges 4-6 · Reception–Year 1Ages 4-6 · LKG–UKGAges 4-6

Children count four kinds of lights in a picture, colour one square for each in a graph, then find which has the most and which has the fewest and answer two comparing questions.

Diwali Fun Time Certificate of Achievement

Ages 4-6 · Pre-K–KindergartenAges 4-6 · Reception–Year 1Ages 4-6 · LKG–UKGAges 4-6

A printable certificate for children who finish pages in the Diwali Fun Time pack. It has boxes for the Warm-up, Challenge and Expert levels and a space for a signature and date.