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Diwali, the festival of lights from India, is the biggest festival of India. It is time for joyful celebration, sweets and of course, fireworks and lights!

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Diya is the clay lamp used during Diwali to light up the whole house.

Here is a fun craft for kids to make their own decorative Diya.

What you’ll need

Construction paper

Scissors/Glue

Gold paper circles – or cut with scissors to make the shape

Felt circles– or cut with scissors to make the shape

Cake circles – Or stick gold paper on cardboard

Step 1. Cut a felt circle into half to make a semi-circle.

Step 2. Glue a felt circle and a semi-circle to a cake circle. The semi-circle is for the lamp and the full circle makes the background of the flame.

Step 3. Add more layers to the flame background by gluing a gold paper circle to the felt circle.

Step 4. Cut construction paper to cut a big and a small flame shape. We used a squeeze punch to do this.

Step 5. Glue the 2 flames shapes on the flame background. Your Diya craft is now complete!