Shapes in the Rangoli: Find, Colour, Count and Trace

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.

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.

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.

My Diwali Diary and Thank-You Card Worksheet

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

Children circle their favourite light, sweet and colours, tick who they will share a light or a sweet with and write a thank-you card. They finish by drawing the lights in their Diwali night picture.

Diwali Sweet Shop Game: Cut, Serve and Count Orders

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

Children cut out sweets and plates, then read six order cards and serve each customer the right number of sweets. They write the total, tick each served order and work out how many are left in the shop box.

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.

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 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.

Harvests & New Years: One Harvest, Many Names Across India

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

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Children learn that the same winter harvest is celebrated with different names across India, and that many states have their own New Year festival.

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

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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.

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.

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Treat Count Picture Graph: Halloween Data Handling Worksheet

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

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Children count five kinds of Halloween treats, record them as a picture graph and read it to compare amounts.

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.

India's Festivals Activity Book Answer Key (Part 2)

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

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

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.