The Knight Bus Altoids tin and other Harry Potter crafts

bus happy potter knight bus crafts altoids tin Create a Knight Bus out of an altoids tin like this one by tapestrymlp on flickr. She has a ton of cute Harry Potter crafts and you can look at her set here.

Jan of Jan’s Reading Room has experimented with several ways of making a Golden Snitch. These are great although I personally would want a snitch made from a spray painted bouncy ball with felt wings, what good is a snitch if you can’t bounce it?

Craftster Pinkleo made these golden snitch earrings. Aren’t they fabulous!! It looks like she used a round golden flower bead and feather beads on each side. Very clever!

Ofenjen of sewhooked.com created an amazing Harry Potter themed quilt and you can see the squares up close if you look at her flickr set.

You may be able to tell that I went to see the movie last night. It was long but good and the Harry Potter world remains so rich with dark and wonderful imagery.

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As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations.

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day.

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita.

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live.

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience.

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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