Speaker 1: Naise, I'm using chalked fish making all the outlines. It's
Speaker 1: a big circle design. I just need to do one
Speaker 1: more squiggle and one more flour there. Now it needs
Speaker 1: some color, turquoise for the petals and yellow for the squiggles. Hi, Cowie,
Speaker 1: what you're doing and coloring in this bit design? It
Speaker 1: needs lots of chalk. Can I help? Sure?
Speaker 2: But not so.
Speaker 1: Fast, Elliot, you got footprints all over my design. Have
Speaker 1: to fix that.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Cowie.
Speaker 1: It's okay, Elliot. Here you can help me coloring all
Speaker 1: the purple.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where we
Speaker 3: discover fascinating facts about the world around us and the
Speaker 3: fun of clay learning. In many parts of the world,
Speaker 3: people are busily preparing for a wonderful celebration that lasts
Speaker 3: five days. But what kind of celebration is it? Let's
Speaker 3: find out.
Speaker 1: Oh hi, Callie and Elliot.
Speaker 3: Cool chock drawing.
Speaker 1: Thanks, But it's not just a drying it's not Nope,
Speaker 1: it's a goalie.
Speaker 3: Huh. I think you mean wrangolie.
Speaker 1: Oops, that is what I meant. It's a rangoolie.
Speaker 4: I still don't get it.
Speaker 1: My friend Arjan showed me his family is from a
Speaker 1: country called India.
Speaker 3: Wranglie is a type of colorful art from India. It
Speaker 3: uses patterns and designs to decorate the ground. Yeah that's right, Billy.
Speaker 3: Rangolis don't have to be chalk. They can also be
Speaker 3: made of sand, flower petals, or even rice powder. Rangoli
Speaker 3: designs are passed down from parents and grandparents to their children.
Speaker 3: That means families make the same design over generations.
Speaker 1: What does the ring goalie designs look like?
Speaker 3: They can look a lot of different ways. Some have
Speaker 3: characters from Indian stories. Others have squares, circles, and diamonds
Speaker 3: repeating in a pattern.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 3: It's also common to put birds and flowers in the designs.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is amazing.
Speaker 3: Do they always have footprinted that?
Speaker 1: No nose? Just elliot?
Speaker 4: I just have to fix it.
Speaker 1: Let's make n goalie art every day. Well, it's not
Speaker 1: for every day, Edford walt doat do worry.
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 2: Billy.
Speaker 3: Dawali is a festival and an important one in India
Speaker 3: and many other countries. People call Dwali the festival of Lights.
Speaker 3: It's a time to celebrate the good things in the
Speaker 3: world and invite more light into our lives.
Speaker 1: Whow i can't believe it.
Speaker 4: Do Wally a brand new holiday?
Speaker 3: Lisa de Waally is not a brand new holiday. It's
Speaker 3: actually quite old.
Speaker 1: Well, I've never heard of it before.
Speaker 3: Just because you've never heard of it does not mean
Speaker 3: it's new.
Speaker 1: Huh, I never thought of that.
Speaker 3: D Wali, in fact, is extremely old. Historians think it
Speaker 3: started twenty five hundred years ago.
Speaker 4: WHOA Is it a.
Speaker 1: Fun holiday like Halloween? Yes?
Speaker 3: I think it is fun. In India, the celebration spills
Speaker 3: into the streets and lights up the nights. It's a
Speaker 3: time for art, family and friends. There are fireworks, many
Speaker 3: little candles and delicious things to eat. Bright clothes, bright art,
Speaker 3: and bright decorations are everywhere. It's colorful.
Speaker 1: I love colorful things.
Speaker 3: That sounds so fun.
Speaker 4: I would like to visit India to celebrate the Wali.
Speaker 1: Me too, too bad? We can have the Wally here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh well, oh hi.
Speaker 2: Argin, hey kwi hi everyone, you can have Devali here. Really,
Speaker 2: you just need a few things. First, lights in India
Speaker 2: ustiny lentns called bias. They twinkle and fill the streets
Speaker 2: with the little dots of light. But you could use
Speaker 2: something else.
Speaker 1: Maybe these twinkles, trem lights yeah.
Speaker 2: For the valley. You also need a clean room, clean room.
Speaker 2: Why they say a fresh bride room brings a fresh,
Speaker 2: bright start.
Speaker 1: Here's a map and a vacue. How many a clean
Speaker 1: room will?
Speaker 2: It does make things.
Speaker 1: Fresh and bright.
Speaker 2: Finally, you need delicious treats to share. In my family,
Speaker 2: we make a dessert called koulab Jaman. It's a fried
Speaker 2: bolt of dough with sea them. But you could use
Speaker 2: a different desserts.
Speaker 1: Ease chocolate tripod.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's see if we have everything we need to
Speaker 4: celebrate the valley lights check, cleaning check, delicious treats to.
Speaker 3: Share check, Grengoni art check.
Speaker 2: Now what now, hang out with your friends and have fun.
Speaker 1: We're good at that.
Speaker 2: Wow, Cowie, you're a Goolie is beautiful. I think it
Speaker 2: would fit right in India. I love the footprints going
Speaker 2: across it.
Speaker 1: Thanks I help with the footprints.
Speaker 3: Lingo kids listeners, thanks for exploring d Walie with us.
Speaker 3: We learned about some lovely traditions for the festival of lights,
Speaker 3: like making rangolie art, putting lights out, cleaning up, and
Speaker 3: sharing suites. And we learned that you can still celebrate
Speaker 3: d Wali even when you're far from home.