Diwali Printables for Kids

Diwali is the Indian festival of light, and it’s a fun holiday for kids to get into, but if you don’t celebrate it, it can be hard to know where to start introducing Diwali to kids. These printables for Diwali are an easy way to integrate some learning about the holiday into your curriculum or to use at home for a little learning.

Rangoli are a popular sight at Diwali, typically made with colored sand. But you can make your own rangoli from mandala-shaped coloring pages and either color in the design or use flowers or other items to decorate it. The Educators Spin on It has a rangoli activity using flowers (they got their printable from Mom Junction but you can also search online for mandala or rangoli coloring pages).

You could decorate yours with other natural materials, or use beads, buttons, pom poms and other objects you already have on hand to make your own designs.

Little Ladoo has another rangoli craft idea made with a printable template and torn paper. They also have a huge bundle of learning pages and activities in their shop you could use to do a whole classroom unit study on Diwali if you want.

Learn more about the symbols of Diwali, including rangoli, diya, fireworks, a temple, lanterns, gifts and a happy child from In the Playroom.

Made By Teachers has a set of printable Diwali Q-Tip crafts from Fun Learning with Us, including a diya, lantern and laddu. This is not a free download but it includes 11 different designs in color and black and white.

If you want to take a Montessori-inspired look at Diwali, check out the printable pack from Every Star is Different. They have a great blog post about what’s in the pack and how to use it, which might give you some ideas even if you don’t buy the pack, but there’s also a free rangoli matching game printable in that post.

Rainbow Lessons has a printable pack at Teachers Pay Teachers that is good for older kids (second to fifth grade) and includes writing activities and a fill in the blank worksheet to help them learn the basics. I love the candle presentation on the writing activities, which makes them double as room decor.

Another good pack for younger kids (pre-k to third grade or so) can be found at Kid World Citizen’s Teachers Pay Teachers page. It includes reading, math, coloring pages and more. They also have a blog post all about these activities if you want to take a closer look before you buy.

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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