Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
4 ice cream sticks, tinted paper, pencil, tracing paper, silver foil (you can use chocolate wrappers), glue, colours, sequins and beads, and scissors.
1. Trace the outline of the six diyas as shown, on the tinted paper. Cut them out. Similary draw and cut out the flames from the silver foil.
2. Stick the flames on the diyas. Decorate the diyas with sequins and beads
3. Make the lamp stand by making a frame out of the icecream sticks as shown in the figure. Paint the stand.
4. Stick the diyas, three on each side of the stand. Suspend the stand with a string by punching a hole in the frame.
5. Brighten up your home on Diwali, by hanging these shiny diyas on a doorway!
Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
K. M Munshi Marg,
Chowpatty, Mumbai - 400 007
email : editor@dimdima.com
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
505, Sane Guruji Marg,
Tardeo, Mumbai - 400 034
email : promo@dimdima.com
Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.