Pongal Celebration Coloring Worksheet for Preschoolers
Children learn that Pongal is a four-day harvest festival in Tamil Nadu that marks the start of the Tamil month Thai, and colour a kolam, fruit and a pongal pot.
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How to use this worksheet
Read the Did you know? fact together, then colour the kolam, the overflowing pongal pot and the fruit.
Materials needed
- Crayons or colour pencils
Extension activities
- 1Cook a sweet rice dish together
- 2Draw a simple kolam with chalk
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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