Diwali Lantern Crafts for Kids

Diwali is known as the Festival of Light, and it’s all about light overcoming darkness, so it makes sense that lanterns would be a big part of the celebration. There are lots of fun ways to make lanterns at home or in the classroom to celebrate, so let’s look at some Diwali lantern craft ideas that you can of course use any other time of the year as well.

This cute lantern from The Joy of Sharing was the one that got me started thinking about diy lantern crafts. It’s made with tracing paper and Popsicle sticks, and little ones can at least help with the coloring if not putting it all together.

The paper lantern at Artsy Craftsy Mom involves cutting windows out of card stock that are then decorated with tissue paper and stickers. Adults can do the cutting while kids of any age can help decorate. A printable template is included to help you with the cutting. She also has a cute classic paper lantern made with glitter paper for extra fun.

Likewise with this one that uses cardboard as the frame from The Crafty Angels. You can cut out the pieces and let kids decorate with yarn, beads or anything else on a string that they might want to add.

For older kids I found a few videos of different kinds of lanterns that are really cool but might take more patience and dexterity than our little ones have. The Kandil lamp from Craft Nifty Creations (the one with the blue flowers shown above) is mostly a lot of gluing. Punekar Sneha has one made with lots of paper loops, which little kids could help with ones the strips are cut. And this gorgeous origami lamp from Being Artsy starts with a piece of posterboard that’s cut and folded to lovely result.

My Cool World Arts and Activities on Teachers Pay Teachers has a printable Diwali lantern kids can color and then make into a lantern. These would be lovely as classroom decorations.

Also be sure to check out some Diwali printables, coloring pages and a cute book about Diwali.

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Diwali Printables for Kids

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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