7 Ways for creating a kids friendly Diwali
Diwali is one of the most widely celebrated festival of India. Ironically, the festival that is meant to spread joy and love is slowly getting associated with loud noise, smoke and even burn injuries thanks to the use of exotic fire crackers. The role of a parent is very important in spreading the right message to their kids. Here are seven ways you can make your Diwali celebrations more children friendly adding fun and frolic.
Allow Creative Freedom for Diwali Cards: Rather than using ready-made greeting cards for your friends and well wishers, encourage the kids to take up art for creating the greeting cards. Such greeting cards not only add a personal touch to the greeting but also allow the children to explore their creativity to the fullest. You can help the kids with their drawing and coloring while encouraging them.
Add Color to the Celebrations: Rather than buying commercial home decor products, parents can make their diwali child friendly, by teaming up for traditional colorful celebrations. Beautifying the home with ‘Rangoli’ together with your kids not only encourage them to tap into their creative genius, but also allows them to create something meaningful and a memory to cherish.
Educate Them about The Perils of Fire Crackers: Spreading awareness against the perils of fire crackers and smoke is the duty of each parent. Rather than forcing your children to not burst fire crackers, educating them against the bad effects. Such a move not only allows far greater restraint, but also helps the children to discuss the same with their friend circle. Remember it is not easy to force children to avoid fire crackers totally.
Have Community Celebrations: Having community celebrations for Diwali is one of the best ways to make sure that there is less pollution and more fun. Diwali is the festival of celebration and joy which can be enhanced while celebrating the festival in a group. The extra expenses of celebrations can be easily evened out by having such community celebrations rather than celebrating individually.
Help the Stray Animals: While people have their fun and frolic on Diwali celebrating with friends and family, poor stray animals sometimes are left helpless with all the smoke and noise. Educate the children to help the stray animals in your neighborhood making sure the animals are given shelter in a place where they do not panic with all the smoke and noise.
Use Crackers under Adult Supervision: In order to make the kids have a good run of fun during their diwali celebrations, it is paramount that an adult is supervising their activity at all times. Children can sometimes get over hyper especially with all the fire crackers available in the market today. Make sure that kids have their fun but are never left unattended to avoid any untoward situation of injury or burns.
Help Them Clean up the Mess: There is no doubt that Diwali is about color, light and fun. Seldom do people realize the mess that sometimes gets accumulated during the Diwali celebrations especially of fire crackers. Educate children about helping to clean up the mess the next day. Such initiatives not only add a sense of civic sense to the kids but also make them more aware about their surroundings.
