Diwali For Kids

Diwali is a holiday season for kids who get vacations to celebrate this religious festival with friends, families, neighbors and their loved ones. Diwali brings happiness,excitement and get-together to share our Hindu customs and traditions through the means of such festivals. 

For Kids, Diwali is a time to have loads of sweets, gifts, new clothes, gadgets, crackers, variety food and plenty time to enjoy each day of diwali festival. Kids help their families in Deepawali preparations from cleaning to decorating puja ghar. Bhai Dooj is special for girls who tie red thread on their brother's wrist and ask for gift and cash in return to their prayer towards god for her brother's wellness.

Diwali Attractions in India

Diwali is one of the popular festival celebrated in India with great preparations, excitement, family togetherness and love. The joy of diwali festival could be seen months prior to the actual date because people plan their shopping, decorations, paint their homes, offices, set new ventures near to the Diwali festival to please various god-goddesses who shower their blessings after looking at the prosperous preparations done by people in their welcome on diwali day. Temples and religious places in India are decorated with lights and flowers on the day to mark the glorious victory of good over evil. People who want to have look at the various diwali attractions in India can visit these temples and places :

• Diwali in Ayodhya - Ayodhya is a Hindu pilgrimage because it is Lord Rama's birth place and he returned to his hometown after fourteen years of exile. This place has special attraction during diwali days with tourists coming from different regions to witness the religious celebration of Diwali in Ayodhaya.

• Diwali in Amritsar - Golden Temple of Amritsar is decorated with yellow lights creating magical reflection on the water spread all around the tomb. Not only sikhs but other people visit gurudwara and light ghee diya in honor to their guru.

• Diwali in Delhi - Since Delhi is a national capital of India, the excitement of Diwali celebrations begans from Dussehra with crowded shopping markets, malls, sweets preparation, shops with crackers and lots of shopping offers, sale and discounts for people. Various large temples like ISKCON, Birla Mandir, Akshardham, Bangla Sahib Gurudwara, Shesh Ganj Gurudwara and many more are beautifully decorated with electric lights, tents, flowers and rangolis.

• Diwali in Kolkata - Diwali has special love for Maa Durga who is worshiped in West Bengal as Kali. Durga Puja is organised at midnight by offering lamb or buffalo and later served among devotees as prasad.

Motichoor Ladoo On Diwali

Diwali Puja is incomplete without offering ladoo to Lord Ganesh who is delighted with these special balls prepared with besan in pure desi ghee. Here is the recipe about how to prepare Motichoor Ladoo on Diwali festival to delight god, goddess and the family. 

Ingredients:

1/3 cup milk (doodh)

1/2 kg sugar (cheeni)
1/2 kg bengal gram flour (besan)
1tblsp pistachios (pista)

1tblsp raisins (kishmish)

few drops orange (santra) colour
pure ghee for frying
a pinch baking powder

Instructions:

• Sieve gram flour, add baking powder and mix it well.
• Add 2 tblsp of melted ghee and enough water to make thick batter.
• Heat up ghee in a kadhai and with a perforated (holes) spoon drop boondis in ghee.
• Rub the batter on the spoon (karchi) with holes so that small drops of batter drop in oil, simultaneously tap the spoon on the rim of kadhai also.
• Fry boondis till golden brown, remove and keep away for normal temperature.
• Meanwhile make sugar syrup mixed in colour.
• Put the fried boondis in this syrup, mix in the raisins and grated pistachios.
• When mixture cools down slightly use buttered hands to make ladoos.

Devotional Diwali Gifts

Diwali is a time to present your happiness and religious feel towards the facts associated with Deepawali celebration. Its a festival of joy when people share the grace of welcoming each other in their houses and exchanging gifts as a tradition to exchange love. Diwali is a religious prosperous time to invite relatives, friends, neighbors and loved ones and together share the festive fervor with some devotional gifts. Browse these below mentioned list of devotional presents and gifts on Diwali festival for people you love. 

• Religious idols, statues, murti, posters and images. 
• Goddess Lakshmi Mata coins for the puja at night.
• Special puja thali with various religious things. 
• Devotional diwali songs CD, DVD and aarti collection. Devotional ganesha, lakshmi maa and other god picture based hangings and decoratives.

Diwali Essays

Diwali is one of the favorite and most celebrated festival in India. It's a main topic in schools for essay writing making kids learn more about this festival of lights and its associated legends. Even I personally agree to this concept of teaching students through their intelligence, knowledge and speed of writing to complete essay on the said topic within limited time period. Here are few tips and guides about how to write essay on Diwali :

1. Start your essay with grand words as the grand celebration of Diwali in India.
2. Mention the main legends which lead to the celebration of Deepawali.
3. You can even add when and for how many days the celebration continues along with its association with Diwali.
4. Add special attractions like Rangoli, torans, crackers, diyas, candles, puja and many other things in your essay writing.
5. Don't forget to mention Diwali Lakshmi Puja.
6. You can even add grace to your essay paragraph by marking special attention for parents to keep their kids away from fire and crackers. They must use precautionary safety measures to avoid any mishappening.

Hope these mentioned tips would help students express their writing skills and best present their hand-writing along with different words to be used in essays.