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Children celebrate Diwali festival of lights with performance

Children from the Lake Forest and Irvine Montessori Preschool put on a Diwali performance at Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Children from the Lake Forest and Irvine Montessori Preschool put on a Diwali performance at Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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Children from the Lake Forest and Irvine Montessori Preschools put on a Diwali performance at Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. The preschoolers danced listened to a story about the festival of lights and were given battery operated tea lights. .

  • Children from the Lake Forest and Irvine Montessori Preschool put...

    Children from the Lake Forest and Irvine Montessori Preschool put on a Diwali performance at Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. Children hold battery powered tea lights, as Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

  • James Maganis, 3, with Montessori Preschool in Irvine and his...

    James Maganis, 3, with Montessori Preschool in Irvine and his mom, Suppattra Maganis, dance together during the Diwali celebration at Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

  • Janet Chang aims her cellphone at her 4-year-old son Finn...

    Janet Chang aims her cellphone at her 4-year-old son Finn during the Lake Forest and Irvine Montessori Preschool Diwali performance at Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

  • Seema Choudhary reads a story about Diwali to children at...

    Seema Choudhary reads a story about Diwali to children at Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

  • Children from the Lake Forest and Irvine Montessori Preschool celebrate...

    Children from the Lake Forest and Irvine Montessori Preschool celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, at Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

  • Children from the Lake Forest and Irvine Montessori Preschool put...

    Children from the Lake Forest and Irvine Montessori Preschool put on a Diwali performance at Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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