Diwali begins today! Diwali is a Hindu holiday that is known as the Festival of Lights. It is celebrated over a span of five days. Its dates are based on a lunar calendar, so it falls sometime in the autumn months of our calendar. When Hazel was young, we explored this holiday with books and made some crafts for it. The overall theme is light and goodness will always triumph over darkness and evil. It is a time for gathering with family and friends and celebrating each other's inner lights. (Source: Prooker, Brijana. "What is Diwali? Learn the History, Traditions, and How to Celebrate the Festival of Lights." Good Housekeeping. 7 Oct 2025. https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/a37680263/what-is-diwali-history-story-celebration-facts/) Today we are sharing an activity book for kids about Diwali. It is perfect for people celebrating but also for kids who want to learn a bit about the holiday. The book is Diwali Coloring & Activities Book for Kids by Anuj Syngal. It is recommended of ages 4 to 8. (And yes, kids need relaxing Fridays and screenfree time as much as we do!)
Publisher's Summary:
Make Diwali a celebration of color, creativity, and family fun!Diwali Coloring & Activities Book for Kids invites children ages 4–8 to explore the Festival of Lights through festive pictures and playful puzzles. From decorating diyas to finding a path through a maze, each activity offers a new way to join the celebration.
Inside, children will discover:
- 31 coloring pages featuring diyas, rangoli, lanterns, peacocks, festive sweets, and family celebrations.
- A variety of activities, including mazes, word searches, matching, dot-to-dot, counting, and spot-the-difference puzzles.
- Creative challenges such as completing a rangoli design.
- An answer key for checking puzzles together.
- Large 8.5 × 11-inch pages with room to color and explore.
Enjoy quiet creative time at home, bring a festive activity into the classroom, or share a thoughtful Diwali gift with a young artist. Younger children can enjoy coloring and matching with a grown-up, while developing readers can try the word puzzles.
Whether Diwali is a treasured family tradition or a celebration your child is discovering, this book offers a cheerful way to color, play, and spend time together.
Let their imagination shine this Diwali!
From Me:
This book has pages to color as well as activities like mazes, word searches, connect the dots, word scrambles and more. It introduces words connected to the holiday and Hindu culture like rangoli and diya as well as having pictures to color of elephants, peacocks, and mehndi (henna). The people in the illustrations are all dressed in traditional Indian clothes. With about 50 pages of activities and illustrations to color, it will keep a child entertained for quite a while. The activities for the most part will be for older kids who know words and reading.
I colored the first illustration in the book with markers mostly. I would suggest coloring with crayons or pencils because the markers did bleed through the page as well as onto the inside front cover. I always like to do a marker test when reviewing a coloring book so you will know if it holds up to markers. This one does not. The pages are double-sided so it would be a shame to ruin the back of the page. The book however is great for kids to learn about Diwali or who know about Diwali but need some quiet time or perhaps for traveling to a celebration. There are different activities as well as different illustrations that will be of interest for different personalities and it is a fun book! So whether you are celebrating the Festival of Light or just want to learn about it with your kids, I hope you will pick up a copy. And remember this Festival of Light provides hope for us all whether we celebrate or not! Happy Diwali!
