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Navratri Special: trace, count and colour
Bring dandiya, garba pots and rangoli to a gentle mix of early learning activities.
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A good starting pointChoose the pointing, colouring or pencil tasks that match your child's stage. Age is a guide; choose tasks by readiness.
A festival theme can give familiar activities a fresh reason to practise. This Navratri pack uses dandiya sticks, pots, flowers and diyas for counting, picture matching and tracing, alongside open-ended colouring.
Use the pictures as a starting point for conversation about your family's celebrations. The pages offer a selection of activities rather than a lesson that must be completed in order. Younger children can enjoy picture talk while older children try the patterns or optional words.
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What’s inside the PDF
- Eight activity pages plus a cover and grown-up guide: 10 A4 pages altogether.
- Dandiya trails, count-and-circle questions and a find-and-count picture search.
- Repeating patterns, optional word tracing and shadow matching.
- A garba-night colouring scene and a rangoli to decorate.
Try it together
How to use this activity
Talk about the pictures
Name a dandiya stick or garba pot together. Invite your child to tell you about a celebration they know, without expecting every family to share the same traditions.
Choose one practice task
Try a tracing trail or count a row of sticks. Your child can point to the answer while you name or write the number.
Look for a repeated group
On the pattern page, say the picture names aloud. Repeat the whole group before choosing the picture that should come next.
Finish with a creative choice
Offer the rangoli or garba scene. Let your child choose colours, then talk about the parts they enjoyed rather than checking their artistic choices.
Make it fit your child
A gentler start
Use the colouring pages or trace a trail with a finger. For counting, show one row at a time and touch each object together.
Ready for another step?
Ask your child to explain a shadow match or create a repeating colour sequence around the rangoli. Accept different decorative patterns.
Look before you print
Actual pages from the pack
A selection from the 10-page PDF.
Open a page to see it larger.
Paper, pencil, ready
Printing and using the pages
Download the PDF, open it in a PDF viewer and choose A4 paper at 100% or “actual size”. Print only the pages you want to use. Check the preview before printing; keep colour cues visible when a selected task depends on them.
Regular paper works for the worksheets. For reusable loose cards, light card can be easier to handle if your printer supports it. Keep any cutout pieces at the printed scale so they fit their mat. A grown-up should handle preparation and cutting.
These original BundleBrain pages are free for personal and classroom use. Share a link to this activity page so other families can find the instructions and download their own copy. Please do not resell or re-upload the PDF.
Good to know
A couple of questions
Is the rangoli a cutout craft?
No. It is a colouring page in this PDF. You need only paper and colouring materials.
Are answers included?
The grown-up guide lists the counting, pattern and shadow-matching answers. Colouring pages allow your child's own choices.
Your next little learning moment
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