Pohela Boishakh Family Kit

Your daughter has seen the photos: the giant birds and tigers of the Dhaka procession, the streets painted with alpona. Here in Queens she has never drawn one, and she has never seen a shopkeeper open a new red ledger. This year she can do both at the kitchen table.

Pohela Boishakh Family Kit is an 18-page printable for the Bengali New Year 1434, written in English with Bangla words in English letters, for Bengali families of every faith.

Inside:
- Page 2: the date. Bangladesh keeps Wednesday, April 14, 2027; West Bengal's traditional calendar gives Thursday, April 15, 2027. A line to write the day your family keeps.
- Pages 3 and 4: what the day is, where the Bangla year came from, and why there are two dates.
- Pages 5 to 7: customs many families keep: the dawn songs at Ramna, the procession from the Faculty of Fine Arts, the hal khata, red and white clothes, the mela, and the new year's table, with a menu to fill in.
- Pages 8 to 13: six alpona patterns drawn for this kit (lotus, rice stalks, sun, fish, curling vine, betel leaves) to color or copy, with how alpona is made.
- Pages 14 and 15: My Hal Khata, a new ledger for a child with no money in it: closing the old year, opening the new, and accounts of kindness for the month of Boishakh.
- Page 16: the family's plan for the day.
- Page 17: a memory page.
- Page 18: Bangla words used, and the sources.

No people are drawn. Families keep the day in many ways, and no Bengali reader has checked the kit yet.

This printable was created with the help of AI tools, then checked fact by fact.

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