Here are 6 Enjoyable Raksha Bandhan Activities and DIY Gifts for Pre-schoolers and Primary-schoolers to Connect with their Beloved Siblings
Relationships are crucial in our lives as we experience and learn from one of our most valuable moments and continue to create strong bonds with one another. Especially the connection between siblings that reflects a bond of love, affection, protection, and trust. The beautiful relationship shared with younger siblings, elder siblings, or cousins is celebrated ceremoniously with utmost adoration in India, Nepal, Pakistan, the United States, and other countries, popularly known as Raksha Bandhan.
Raksha Bandhan represents a sacred bond between brothers and sisters uniquely tied with a holy and colorful thread of love and blessing. The zealous occasion across the globe offers all the partners in crime, cousins, inseparable siblings, and people with kinship as displays of affection to take vows and pray for each other’s safety and well-being along with support and protection from all kinds of evils.
“Raksha Bandhan” comes from the Sanskrit term “Raksika,” which signifies “the bond of protection” (a tie or knot of protection). Every year people of every age celebrate Raksha Bandhan on a ‘Full Moon day of Shravana, which falls in August.
The sacred festival is a 6000-year-old Hindu festival given importance to symbolizing the love shared between a brother and a sister. However, according to historical evidence, the celebration of the Rakhi festival has crossed the conventional barrier of religion, caste, and creed over time. Nowadays, people choose to celebrate the Rakhi festival with much enthusiasm beyond gender and religious barriers.
The happy hours around the festivals and celebrations are the best moments spent with our loved ones. To make these times more memorable and meaningful with brothers and sisters, we’ve curated exciting Raksha Bandhan gifts and fun activities for kids. Involve your kids for them to engage in Raksha Bandhan activities, and also put effort into creating some handmade gifts to send to their lovely brothers and sisters to make them feel valued.
Let’s begin to read through some of the most amazing Raksha Bandhan gifts and activities for kids that can make them excited and joyful:
- DIY Rakhis at Home:
Instead of buying expensive Rakhis, you can motivate your kids to make them at home. You can find the internet full of videos on how to make Rakhis at home for kids. They can start making a Rakhi with materials such as wool, silk threads, colorful threads, paper, foam sheets, a black sketch pen, glue, beads, and other decorative materials that kids fancy.
Rakhi-making ideas involve Animal Rakhi, Planets Rakhi, Cartoon Rakhi, or Flower Rakhi. But push your young ones to think of innovative ideas, think of various shapes & sizes, and let their creativity flow by allowing them creative freedom to design their own Rakhis.
- DIY Raksha Bandhan Greeting Cards:
One of the most heartwarming activities is creating Raksha Bandhan multicolored greeting cards with so much love. Your kids can make blank cards by cutting card-size paper of your choice from colored chart paper.
They can gather photographs with their siblings and try to paint or draw their favorite element they want to add and use Rakhi bands, paper flowers, and other embellishing items to tie with the knot of Rakhi and gift siblings. Kids can design their cards with the elements they want to add.
- Mood Board with Memories:
Kids can re-create old photographs from their childhood on Rakhi. Mood boards are created with interesting ideas using their art and craft skills to cherish old memories. The little artists can decorate their mood boards with poems, pictures, flowers, or planets (elements of their choice).
Reminiscing the good old times with your siblings and crime partners can take you back to beautiful memory lane and trigger feelings of love. Kids can add the best qualities they like about their siblings, their favorite colors, and their feelings about the festival can come together as a great mood board.
- Paper Flower Bouquets as Raksha Bandhan Gifts:
Kids start thinking about heartfelt & trendy gifts as every year Rakhi Festival is around the corner. A paper flower bouquet takes less time and is a perfect gift to convey warmth to siblings. Rather than buying anything from the market, kids can customize and make one of their paper flower bouquets filled with short & sweet messages that tickle their sibling’s hearts. The thought behind the thoughtful gift and activity is for kids to imagine how they would want to grow with another person.
- DIY Wall Hangings:
One of the super easy Raksha Bandhan gifts only requires a few art supplies, cardboard, paper, glue, ribbons, and any additional decorative items kids need. Kids can choose what shape they want to give to their wall hangings, for example, sun & moon, paper flowers, hearts, stars, etc., and add one-word messages that convey notes of love and compassion. These handmade gifts for Rakhi Festival are creative, and the efforts will touch loved ones.
- DIY Bookmarks:
Not only will the kids who love to read books adore these, but every kid would love to have beautifully designed or painted bookmarks in their textbooks or room with lovely notes to remind them how special they are.
Kids can create these wonderful Raksha Bandhan gifts just with a few materials and art supplies. They can take inspiration from Pinterest to add random patterns and designs with book quotes and inspiring quotes on bookmarks for siblings.
No matter which handmade gifts kids pick, we are sure they will feel delighted and comforting. The blissful festival of Raksha Bandhan calls for immense fun and celebration of togetherness. This Rakhi Festival enhances your bond with kids by making these DIYs & crafts, letting them pamper their siblings with Raksha Bandhan gifts and festive activities to express and spread love, respect, and warmth in our lives.
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