Diwali - Lots NEW!

Diwali is celebrated from 17th October this year, and we have lots new on the site if you are interested in learning about this Hindu Festival of Light - or celebrating yourself.

We have many original Diwali craft ideas, including ideas for creating your own diya and rangoli.

Diwali Crafts

Diwali cards to print, New Diwali and Bhaiya-Dooj cards to print and colour, Fireworks acrostic printables, Happy Diwali gift/money envelopes, diya alphabets, and more!

Diwali printables

Celebrate this special day for brothers and sisters with our new "Brother" and "Sister" printables

Bhai-Dooj printables

We've got some really pretty Diwali colouring pages and "Happy Diwali" colouring cards. New this year are Bhaiya-Dooj colouring pages and colouring cards, too!

Diwali colouring pages

A new "How Many Diya Lamps?" puzzle

Diwali Puzzles

Rangoli are a beautiful designs drawn outside the entrance to a house by Hindus at Diwali. We have 18 new rangoli designs...

Rangoli colouring pages

Rangoli - Ideas, inspiration and colouring!

A traditional rangoli design

Rangoli are beautiful, often symmetrical, designs drawn on the ground outside the entrance to a house by Hindus during Diwali celebrations. There are many different ways of creating rangoli, and different regions of India have different traditions.

Some of our rangoli colouring pages

Our rangoli craft ideas have been up on the site for a few years now and have proved very popular, but this year we have updated the page and added some photos of wonderful rangoli to inspire your creative efforts! We've got grid papers to help you design your own rangoli, and we have also added 18 pages of fairly simple rangoli colouring pages for those who would like more of a head-start. These look beautiful when coloured and cut out, and can also be used as outlines for rangoli designs using glue and glitter, coloured salt or rice, or pulses.

Jack painting his rangoli design outside

Painted candle craft - messy but effective fun for kids!

We made our candle to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, but you could make Christmas or Halloween candles in exactly the same way. They would also make a lovely hand made gift.

Painted Candle Craft

Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, and some new craft ideas

Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, will be celebrated on 9th November this year, and we have updated our Diwali pages to include new Diwali recipes, crafts and links to some excellent pages elsewhere on the net. This is one of our newest crafts - a simple clay diya (lamp) which even the youngest children can enjoy.



Simple diya craft