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Holi Festival 2020
At BestStart Tory Street, we celebrated Holi festival with our Indian community. Some of our generous parents came to our centre to cook some Indian snacks snacks for us. They made “namak pare”, Gujiya and one of our Punjabi parents made “Kada prasad” dish to share with our tamariki.
One of our parents talked about the importance of Holi to our children at mat time and then we headed outside to play with colour. It was so much fun to throw coloured powder at each other.
Indians celebrate Holi for two days. The coloured powder - or gulal - thrown on the second day of the festival comes from the legend of Krishna. Red reflects love and fertility, blue is the colour of Krishna, yellow is the colour of turmeric and green symbolises spring and new beginnings.
We are so privileged to have these parents who came and did the cooking for us. All of us tasted the food they made at lunch time. Most of our tamariki loved “Namak pare”
This is one of the popular festivals that we celebrate at BestStart Tory Street and we all enjoy embracing different cultures and traditions.