Crafts to Celebrate Ridvan

In my ongoing quest to learn more about holidays I don’t know about (and taking you along for the scroll), let’s learn about Ridvan, which is a 12-day festival taking place in 2026 from April 20 to May 2.

This holiday, also known as the Most Great Festival or the King of Festivals, is part of the Baha’i faith and commemorates when their leader, Baha’u’llah, was exiled from Baghdad in 1863. In preparing to leave the city he spent 12 days in the garden of Ridvan (which means paradise) saying goodbye to his followers and revealing teachings and publicly declaring himself as a manifestation of God. You can learn more about it from this video.

Because Baha’u’llah was in a garden, where roses were gathered each day and distributed to followers, gardens and roses are a big part of Ridvan celebrations.

Delighted Hearts has a beautiful 3D printable you can cut out and assemble to make your own garden of Ridvan. They also have several Ridvan coloring pages with quotes and prayers on them that would be nice cards to make for the festival.

Combine this with the 3D Ridvan garden printables from Home of Peace Studio to make a whole Ridvan scene kids can color and assemble.

Another great resource for learning about Ridvan and Ridvan crafts is All Done Monkey. They have a post all about ways to celebrate Ridvan in community with kids, including having a picnic in a garden or doing some gardening. She also has a collection of craft ideas including rose crafts, crowns, a flower board and more. And why not make some rose cookies to go with your crafting session?

A Gladsome Heart has a 12 page printable activity book that includes the story of Ridvan, coloring pages, a maze, crossword and more.

Enable Me to Grow also has some great ideas for celebrating Ridvan, including a tea party in an indoor tent (how fun is that?), making a flower board (shown here) and a felt garden.

This one isn’t specific to Ridvan of course but you can learn how to make an easy paper rose with this tutorial from Mom Does Reviews.

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Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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