Willow Class - Diwali Parent Workshop
We invited our parents to come and help us celebrate the Hindu Festival of Light-Diwali.
In the morning we tidied and cleaned and made Barfi to share with our parents. We learned about how to celebrate with Jessica (on cbeebies). She showed us all the things her family do at Diwali.
In the afternoon we had an activity card to help us make some special decorations ready to celebrate Diwali.
We made splatter fireworks – Diwali celebrates light winning over dark so Hindus celebrate with bright fireworks.
We tried making Rangoli - These patterns are made to welcome the Goddess Lakshmi into people’s houses. She brings luck into the house. We tried chalk patterns on the patio and rice patterns inside.
Everyone made and put up a Diwali card in the home corner to send to our families.
Hindus use bright decorations inside and outside. We made Kandil lanterns. They looked amazing.
The Diva lights looked very bright and helped to light the way home for Rama and Sita.
Our Mehndi patterns were made by drawing around our hand and making beautiful Mehndi patterns on it to make us feel special at Diwali.
Everyone celebrated this Hindu festival together and learnt the story of Rama and Sita using puppets. Thank-you parents for helping us too.
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Our family and friends said:
- Fantastic workshop! Lots of activities to get stuck into and meant there was no congestion around any one activity. I really enjoyed the afternoon. Thank you for including us parents.
- Such a great workshop! Lovely range of activities. Thank you for including us.
- A really good change to see my son in the classroom. Thank you for inviting us and for arranging so many fun activities.
- Lovely workshop, lovely being with my son, especially to do craft which he loves. All activities were brilliant. Thank you for inviting us.
- Thank you. Both Charlotte and I had lots of fun! Lovely to see Charlotte working in the classroom so independently.
- Great to see my son so confident in the class. Lots of fun and mess.
- A good variety of activities. Really lovely to spend time in the classroom. We had lots of fun.
- A lovely afternoon doing craft with the children. Lots of fun.
