Colorful Handprint Holi Card

The Indian festival of colors, Holi, is just around the corner. This year, Holi, will be on 8th March, 2023.

On this day, people of all ages come together to put beautiful colors on each other using natural or artificial powders and paints. Kids fill up water balloons and pichkari (water syringes) to splash their friends and sometimes even strangers!

Adults usually play with colors in the morning and then spend the afternoon and evening with friends and family over lunch and oral, board or card games. It is a time of fun and enjoyment for everyone. Anyone who has played Holi will usually have fond memories of it lasting years.

To commemorate this year's Holi festival, we decided to make a super easy yet colorful handprint Holi card.

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Holi Bonfire Card

Holi is a popular festival in India. It celebrates the end of the winter season and the arrival of spring.

Holika Dahan (Bonfire) is an important ritual associated with the Holi festival. Holika Dahan or the lighting of the bonfire takes place on the eve of Holi. People gather and perform religious rituals in front of the bonfire.

According to Hindu mythology, Holi celebrates the killing of Holika (sister of the demon king Hiranyakashipu) by god Vishnu in order to save his devotee Prahlad. And, Holi gets its name from Holika.

To educate my daughter about this ritual, we made this cute bonfire craft for kids.

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Homemade Holi Colours

Today is the festival of colors, Holi. We made our own Holi colours at home this year and they turned out lovely so we thought of sharing the recipe with you all.

These colors are super simple to make with a few ingredients available at home. In fact, kids can make them on their own with very little help from you.

Holi marks the beginning of spring after a long winter and also symbolizes the triumph of good over evil.

It's a two day festival - first day is called Chhoti Holi, which starts with Holika Dahan (bonfire) in the evening where people gather and perform religious rituals. Next morning is Holi when people meet friends/family and smear each other with colors.

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Holi Pichkari Craft

If you have read about India, you have surely heard of two big festivals - Diwali - the festival of lights and Holi - the festival of colours. It is not too presumptuous to guess that Holi is every Indian kid's favourite festival.

Holi allows little kids (and adults) to unleash their inner child, let go of all rules and have the time of their life with colours, balloons and pichkari (water syringe) . The most adorable and critical, being the pichkari, which comes in innumerable shapes and forms and becomes the weapon of choice for use against parents, uncle, aunties, and their little friends.

So, on the occasion of Holi 2018, we thought it did be apt to create a pichkari craft, so our little kid can learn about this wonderful colourful festival.

As they say - Don't mind, let it be bygone, it's Holi (Bura na maano, Holi hai).

Happy crafting!

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