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Canada Day Activities for Kids

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Celebrate Canada Day by learning more about Canada and doing some Canada themed activities. I’ve already featured Canada in our countries of the world posts, so you can go there are read all about it and come up with more activities from there. We also have a Canada coloring sheet in our nations of the world pack.

Grade Onederful is a Canada-based blog so it has lots of good ideas for celebrating Canada Day in the classroom. I love the idea to go on a walk to collect rocks so each child can build an inuksuk and also draw them (here’s more on inuksuks if you don’t know what they are). They also made paper plate beavers, illustrated the national anthem and more. You’ll find a printable pack in the post as well.

Happy Hooligans is another Canadian blogger with a fun collection of Canada Day crafts. It includes a God’s eye, shaker sticks, wind socks (shown here) and more you could make to celebrate whatever country you want.

Projects with Kids has a sweet printable wand craft for Canada Day with five maple leaf templates kids can cut out and color before making into a wand. They could also be a garland or used in other crafts if you like.

Homemade Heather has a cute Canada themed matching/memory game kids can play again and again.

I love a good sensory bin, and this one from Happy Toddler Playtime uses painted chickpeas in red and white to make a fun base for kids to play with. She also has a cute paper plate Canada flag craft.

If you’re looking for even more Canada themed crafts, East Coast Mommy has a great collection. I love the paper bag beaver puppet project.

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Book Review: The Festival of Lights

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations. 

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day. 

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.  

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita. 

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live. 

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience. 

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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