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Make Your Own Diya | Free Mini Zine No. 04
Make Your Own Diya | Free Mini Zine No. 04
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🪔 Craft your own light. Script your own Diwali.
With just 3 ingredients, 5 easy steps, and 15 minutes of prep, kids and families can craft their own salt dough diyas — measuring, mixing, shaping, and painting their way to creativity and connection.
What's inside:
- Simple illustrated instructions: 3 ingredients, 5 steps
- Tips & tricks
- Reflection prompts to make Diwali personal, joyful, and hands-on
- Step-by-step folding instructions
Perfect for:
- Kids and families
- Libraries, classrooms, educators, and Diwali celebrations
More Diwali fun: Mini Zine No. 01, Step-by-Step Diwali and No. 06, My Silly Diwali Story.
Read our Diwali reflection, The Light We Carry Forward, on our blog here.
📺 Watch a video of folding the mini zine here.
How to print: US Letter paper, double-sided, flip on long edge, actual size.
Free to print for home, library and classroom use. No reselling or editing.
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