This week, The preschoolers at RisingOaks Early Learning | St. Patrick joyfully celebrated Diwali the Festival of Lights through art, creativity, and cultural learning. During this festival, the Indian people illuminates their homes, shops, workplaces with diyas, candles, and lanterns. They also create the vibrant Rangoli patterns using the rice, colours and coloured sand. The Diwali-themed activities were planned to help children explore and appreciate cultural diversity while engaging in meaningful, hands-on learning. Through art and group experiences, children developed important social, emotional, and creative skills. They created Rangoli art using colored sand to represent happiness, positivity, and liveliness of a household, and is intended to welcome Goddess of wealth and good luck. We also designed paper Diyas to represent positivity and kindness, and made paper lanterns to brighten our classroom and hallway. The children helped the educators to decorate the hallway, they showed their excitement to put the Diwali poster on the hallway wall, so their parents can see their art work. These activities supported fine motor development, creativity, teamwork, and cultural appreciation.