These Diwali coloring pages center on the festival's lamps and lanterns, but they seldom show them the same way twice. A single diya can fill a whole page, while other designs float four diyas among lotus flowers in a wide urli bowl or tuck each letter of "DIWALI" inside its own hanging kandil lantern. Alongside them are rangoli designs, festival sweets, and seated figures of Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesha. The choice comes down to whether you prefer a single bold design, a festive scene, or a more detailed pattern.
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Beyond the lamp-centered designs, the collection moves into decorated places. An arched window has its wooden shutters opened wide, with three diyas resting on the sill, a doorway is hung with a toran of marigolds and mango leaves, and a wooden swing hangs from ropes wrapped in garlands. Several pages show Indian children in the middle of a specific festival task, such as kneeling beside a peacock rangoli with bowls of colored powder or standing on tiptoe on a stool to hang a star lantern.
Some designs reshape the festival lamp itself. A peacock's tail feathers end in diya-flame tips, and another page surrounds a tall flame with a sunburst of petals and broad rays. Greeting pages place "HAPPY DIWALI" inside an arched lantern or connect the letters with flowing lotus branches and diya decorations. Lotus and marigold details recur as decoration across many of these designs, and main subjects tend to be large and rounded.
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Choosing Diwali Coloring Pages by Focus and Detail
The Diwali Kandil Lantern with Curved Tassels and the Giant Lotus Diya with Layered Petals each put one large object at the center. Only a few accompanying pieces surround it, such as tassels and stars or two smaller diyas, so either page can work as a shorter coloring session. The Little Elephant Carrying a Diwali Lantern keeps the composition similarly simple: one animal, one lantern, a patterned cloth, and a marigold.
Fuller compositions give you much more to work through. The Diwali Balcony with Cascading Lanterns and the Little Diwali Lantern Cart combine architecture, garlands, pots, and several lanterns in one scene. The Decorative Diwali Puja Thali spreads a diya, sweets, a bowl of kumkum, and scattered petals across a round tray.
The standalone rangoli coloring pages offer a different kind of detail. Instead of many separate objects, they repeat petal and teardrop shapes in symmetrical layers. Coloring them means working through mirrored, repeating patterns rather than individual items.
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Each of these printable Diwali coloring sheets is a free individual PDF, so you can pick only the pages you want, and you don't need an account. Select a design from the gallery above, download its PDF, and print it on US Letter (8.5 x 11 inches) or A4 paper. Printed results can vary depending on your printer, device, and PDF app. The pages are meant for personal, school, and other non-commercial creative use; they can't be sold or uploaded to other websites. When your page is finished, share a photo with us on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, or X.
