20 free Diwali colouring pages to print before the festival of lights: the sisters getting ready for Diwali, plus easy and detailed Diwali scenes to colour.
Diwali (Deepavali) is the festival of lights: homes are cleaned and decorated, doorsteps get a bright rangoli, rows of clay diyas glow at night, star-shaped kandils hang in the windows and everyone shares sweets. These Diwali colouring pages (also called Diwali coloring pages or Diwali drawing sheets) show the sisters getting ready, plus Diwali scenes without characters: easy pages with big shapes for little ones and detailed pages for older kids.
Every page is a free A4 PDF. Print a few in the days before Diwali, or a whole set for a Diwali party or the classroom.
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On Diwali evening, Nanu kneels at the doorstep and adds the last petals to a big flower rangoli, with bowls of rangoli colour beside her.
Talk about it: Draw a big chalk circle outside your door and fill it with petals together.
The day before Diwali, Kiti paints clay diyas with dots and stripes, and gets a little paint on her cheek too!
Talk about it: Buy a few plain clay diyas and paint them together. Let them dry before Diwali night.
Baby Pannu sits on her cushion with Gappu the elephant and points up at the big star-shaped kandil glowing above her. Ooh!
Talk about it: Babies love looking up at lights. Hang a paper star where your little one can see it.
Nanu stands on her tiptoes to hang a toran of marigolds and mango leaves over the front door, while Kiti holds up the other end.
Talk about it: Count the flowers on the toran, then colour them orange and yellow like real marigolds.
A row of diyas glows at the end of the window ledge under a sky full of stars. The sisters stand back to admire them, and Kiti points at the little flames.
Talk about it: Diwali is on a new-moon night. Can you find the moon in this picture? (There isn’t one!)
Big sister Nanu opens the Diwali mithai box and feeds baby Pannu a round laddoo. Pannu’s mouth is open wide!
Talk about it: What is your favourite Diwali sweet? Colour the laddoos yellow and the barfi pink.
Under a string of lights, Kiti proudly holds up the paper lantern she made, and baby Pannu claps for her big sister.
Talk about it: Make a paper lantern: fold a sheet in half, cut slits along the fold, open it and roll it into a tube.
At the Diwali market, the stall is full of clay diyas and paper lanterns. Nanu holds up the lantern she has chosen for home.
Talk about it: Which lantern would you pick? Draw one more lantern on the stall.
On the rooftop, kandils hang overhead and diyas glow on the far wall. Kiti waves at the stars while a puppy keeps her company.
Talk about it: Kiti loves animal sounds. What does the puppy say to the stars?
A detailed page for older children: a huge peacock rangoli full of petals, paisleys and leaves, ringed with clay diyas, with Nanu in a patterned lehenga placing the last petal. Kandils and a toran hang above.
Talk about it: Choose a colour pattern for one ring of petals and repeat it all the way round.
Easy pages with big shapes for little ones, and detailed pages for big kids who love colouring.
A happy baby elephant dressed up for Diwali with a decorated cloth, forehead ornament and ankle bells, in a garden with lanterns, marigolds and diyas.
Talk about it: Elephants in India are decorated for festivals. What colours will you give its cloth?
A front door ready for Diwali: a marigold toran, two star kandils, potted plants, two diyas and a big flower rangoli on the doorstep.
Talk about it: Colour each rangoli petal a different colour, just like real rangoli powder.
A cute peacock opens its tail like a big fan in a Diwali garden, looking up at the lanterns, with marigold bushes and diyas around it.
Talk about it: The peacock is India’s national bird. Can you count its tail feathers?
A tower of Diwali gift boxes with bows, a smiling teddy bear and a plate of laddoos, under a big hanging lantern by the window.
Talk about it: Each box has a pattern: stars, stripes, hearts and dots. Which one is your favourite?
A little village on Diwali evening: huts with diyas on the doorsteps, lanterns in the big tree, a cow with a marigold garland, her calf and a hen.
Talk about it: Kiti would say “moo” to the cow! What sound does the hen make?
Three decorated clay diyas glowing on a brass plate, surrounded by marigolds, with a rangoli, lanterns and flags all around.
Talk about it: Use gold, orange and yellow for the diyas and marigolds, then a bright colour for the rangoli.
A fluffy cat sits on a decorated window sill, gazing up at a big star kandil, with diyas, marigolds and the lit-up town outside.
Talk about it: Colour the kandil first, then the town lights behind it.
A cheeky mouse hugs a laddoo bigger than its head behind a plate piled with Diwali sweets: laddoos, kaju katli and jalebis.
Talk about it: Which Diwali sweet would you take from this plate?
A two-storey house glowing on Diwali night: lights along the roof, kandils in the windows, diyas on every step and a big rangoli in the courtyard.
Talk about it: Count the diyas on the steps, then colour every one a bright yellow.
An old pol street in Ahmedabad on Diwali night: carved balconies, diyas on every step, lanterns and flags across the lane, and pigeons on the chabutro.
Talk about it: The chabutro is a bird-feeding tower found in old Gujarati streets. Can you find the pigeons?
Safety first: keep lit diyas and candles out of reach, and keep little ones indoors and away from crackers. Loud bangs can scare toddlers and hurt small ears.
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