Essay on HOLI for class 3/4/5

• Holi is a festival of colours.

• It is celebrated in the month of March every year.

• This auspicious festival is celebrated during the spring season with great joy and fervour.

• People wear white coloured clothes on the day of Holi.

• They play with bright organic colours like red, green, yellow, orange, magenta, purple, etc.

• Various kinds of sweets such as Gujiyas and Malpuas are prepared to mark the occasion of Holi.

• Children love playing with colours using pichkaris, buckets and balloons, filled with coloured water.

• Holi celebrations begin with the Holika Dahan ritual that is celebrated to honour the burning of Holika, the evil demoness and protection of Prahlad by Lord Vishnu from that fire.

• People collect wood and burn a bonfire and celebrate by singing songs around it.

Holi is a festival which reminds us of the victory of good over evil.