Tamil Heritage Month Activities

Celebrate Tamil Heritage Month in January with Thai Pongal, kolam art, and the Tamil language.

What’s inside (15 pages):
What Is Tamil Heritage Month? Tamil Canadians and why the month is in January.
Thai Pongal: A Harvest Festival, with photos of a Pongal pot over the fire.
How Pongal Is Made: a cut and glue sequencing page.
The Tamil Language: one of the world’s oldest living languages, its 247 letters, and the Thirukkural.
Let’s Learn Tamil Words: six words in Tamil script (vanakkam, nandri, amma, appa, pongal, kolam) to say and copy, plus matching.
Kolam: Art at the Doorstep, a reading about the dot and loop designs drawn with rice flour.
Draw a Kolam (trace), Finish the Kolam (symmetry), and Colour a Pongal Pot.
Check Your Reading, teacher guide, answer key, and credits.

Why teachers love it:
Tamil script, clearly printed.
Kolam pages build symmetry and patterning skills.
No prep, just print and go.