Escape the Dark Gate: Diwali Puzzle Challenge for Big Explorers

Diwali Time Zones: 24-Hour Clock and Festivals Around the World

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

Children work out the local time in four cities when it is 18:00 in Delhi, draw clock hands, use clues to match six places to their names for the festival of lights and plan a call across time zones.

Diwali Comic Strip and Acrostic Poem Writing Activity

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

Children plan a six-panel comic, from start to ending, about Mira and her diyas, write the rest of a DEEPAVALI acrostic poem and draw the picture for their best line.

Diwali Market Maths: Add Prices, Find the Change and Plan a Budget

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

Children read a price list, add three prices, work out the cost and the change from a note, and plan a Rs 600 shopping budget that gets as close as possible without going over.

Fold-and-Cut Rangoli: Angles, Symmetry and Layers Craft

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

Children fold a circle three times, cut notches and unfold a rangoli. They predict how many layers, mirror lines and degrees of turn it will have, test it and plan more designs on a sheet.

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.

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.

Lamps in Rows: Diya Arrays, Fractions and Two-Step Word Problems

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

Children write multiplication facts from diya trays, colour fractions of a row, find equivalent fractions with a lamp string and solve four two-step word problems with room for working.

Five Days of Diwali Zig-Zag Book: Cut, Fold, Read and Quiz

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

Children cut and fold a zig-zag book about Dhanteras, Choti Diwali, Diwali, Govardhan Puja and Bhai Dooj, fill in the blanks about each day and answer a five-question quiz.

Lift-the-Flame Diwali Maths: Cut, Glue and Check the Sum

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

Children add small numbers up to 6, find the flame strip with the matching number, glue it behind a diya and lift the flame to check their answer. A self-checking maths craft.

Diwali Sweet Shop Sums: Ten-Frames, Sharing and Number Stories

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

Children count sweets in ten-frames and find how many more make 10. They share sweets equally onto plates and use pictures to add, subtract and complete number sentences in three short stories.

Logical Reasoning Certificate of Achievement

Ages 4-7 · Pre-K–Grade 1Ages 4-7 · Reception–Year 2Ages 4-7 · LKG–Class 1Ages 4-7

Logical ReasoningPuzzles

A certificate to celebrate a child who has spotted patterns, cracked codes, solved mazes and thought things through. It has tick boxes for the Warm-up, Challenge and Expert levels completed.

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.

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.

Lights for Rama and Sita: Diwali Story Sequencing for Kids

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

Children listen to a four-part Diwali story, number the pictures in order, circle what the sky looked like on that night and tick why people lit lamps. They finish by drawing their own lamp.

India's Festivals Activity Book Answer Key (Part 1)

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

FestivalsIndia

Grown-ups can check children's answers quickly for the first part of the book.

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.