Diwali at School: Parent Volunteer Kit for a 20-Minute Classroom Visit

You signed up to share Diwali with your child's class and you have twenty minutes, no materials and a room of seven-year-olds. This 14-page printable is the whole visit, ready to print.

Inside: a minute-by-minute 20-minute plan (page 2), a week-before checklist (3), a show-and-tell list with one sentence to say for each item (4), a short read-aloud story of Prince Rama's homecoming to Ayodhya in plain English (5 and 6), a page on how Hindu, Sikh and Jain families each keep Diwali (7), answers to questions children ask (8), a paper diya craft with a template (9), a paper rangoli craft with a guide and a sheet of shapes, so there is no powder to clean up (10 and 11), a take-home sheet for classmates (12), a fill-in note to the teacher (13) and the sources (14).

Diwali 2026 is Sunday 8 November; some calendars begin the festival on Thursday 5 November. Facts come from the Hindu American Foundation, the Valmiki Ramayana, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and JAINA. No lamp is lit in class, and no god is pictured. Print on US Letter or A4.

This printable was created with the help of AI tools, then checked fact by fact.

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