Blue Peter - Make a tealight for Diwali this year

Step 1

With the help of a grown up, take a pen or something small and pointy and use it to pierce a hole into your ping pong ball. Wiggle it around a little to create a small hole in the ping pong ball!

Step 2

Next, pour lots of different colours of paint into your paint tray and give it a good swirl. Don't mix the paints together until they become a different colour, just run a brush or the back of your pen through the paints until it has a nice swirling effect.

Step 3

Now for the fun part! Throw your ping pong ball into the paint filled tray and carefully tilt your tray left to right, try not to spill anything!

This will roll the ball around the tray and take on lots of random splats of different colour paints. 🎨

Step 3.5

You could get creative here whilst the paint is still wet and decorate your Diwali tealight with a few extras, such as sprinkling a little bit of glitter on yours? Or keep it nice and simple, just like ours!

Step 4

Once you have decorated your ping pong ball, leave it somewhere safe and dry overnight. This will allow the paint to thoroughly dry and settle into its beautiful colours!

Step 5

Make sure it's completely dry, then carefully use your pen or pointed item and poke a hole into the ping pong ball. It should be a big enough hole for you to fit the fake flame or bulb of the tea light inside the ball.

Now you can turn on your light and enjoy your hard work, time to celebrate ‘The Festival of Light’ with your very own unique Diwali tealight!

Let us know how you get on with this lovely make in the comments, you can even send us a picture of your make using the 'Send your stuff' button below! 🪔

For more Diwali, make sure you head over to our How are you Celebrating Diwali page to get involved with the conversation, hear how Nikita celebrates Diwali and see last year's Blue Peter Diwali paper lanterns make!