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.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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