Ladders and Lamps: Diwali Board Game for Kids

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

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

Children make three wick strips, predict which will climb highest, measure the climb at 5, 10, 15 and 20 minutes, draw a bar chart and explain why a cotton wick draws oil to a diya's flame. No flame is used.

Lamp Logic Puzzles: Magic Square, Sudoku and Number Patterns

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

Children fill a magic square so every line adds to 15, solve a 4 by 4 symbol sudoku with diyas, lotuses, stars and flowers, and find the rule and night 7 for three number patterns.

Find the Hidden Diyas: Coordinates Puzzle and Two-Player Game

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

Children use row and column clues to find nine hidden lamp squares in a grid, write them with coordinates such as C4, and then play a two-player game to find each other's hidden fleet.

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.

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.

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.

Diwali Stories Collector Cards: Cut-Out Cards and Quest Puzzles

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

Children cut out eight cards that tell where and how families celebrate, including Rama's return, Lakshmi Puja, Jain Diwali, Bandi Chhor Divas, Tihar in Nepal, Kali Puja and Govardhan Puja, then match them to an album and solve eight quests.

Escape the Dark Gate: Diwali Puzzle Challenge for Big Explorers

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

Children solve four puzzles: a secret word, lamp heights, a rangoli count and a number walk. Each gives one digit, and the four digits must add to 24 to open the gate of Ayodhya.

Diwali Dice Cube: Make a Cube and Do the Action

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

Children cut, fold and glue a paper cube with six actions such as clap three times, jump four times and count five diyas. They roll it, do the action and colour a flame in their score row.

SequencingLogical Reasoning

Sequencing Worksheet for Kids: First, Next, Last

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

Children put three-step stories in order using first, next and last, then work backwards to find what came before a picture. This builds sequencing, time vocabulary and cause and effect thinking.

When Do We Celebrate? Indian Festivals and the Months of the Year

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

Festivals12 Months

Children connect each festival to the month it falls in and learn that some festivals follow the moon, so their dates change each year.

Rangoli Spinner Top: Colour Mixing Craft for Diwali

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

Children colour a disc with red, yellow and blue, cut it out, spin it and watch the colours mix to make new ones. They record what they see and design a spinner of their own.

Dussehra and First Letters: Vidyarambham Tracing and Letter Hunt

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

NavratriFestivals

Children learn about Vidyarambham, when little children write their first letters in rice on Vijayadashami, and about Dussehra, when Rama won against Ravana. They trace letters, sort things we use to learn, count to 10 and match letters to beginning sounds.

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.

Diwali Words and Letters: First Sounds, Tracing and Odd One Out

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

Children say each Diwali word slowly and circle its first letter, trace four words (diya, lamp, light and sweet) and write them again, then find the picture that is different in three odd-one-out rows.

Coding Worksheet for Kids: Arrow Codes and Robot Grid

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

CodingLogical Reasoning

Children read arrow codes to move a robot across a grid, write their own arrow code to take the bee to the flower, and spot the one wrong arrow in a code. These are first steps in coding, sequencing and debugging.