Lohri Family Booklet with the Dulla Bhatti Story

The wood is stacked for your baby's first Lohri, the grandparents are already humming "Sundar mundriye," and the grandchildren keep asking who Dulla Bhatti was. Tonight you can tell them the story before the fire is lit.

A 12-page printable for a Punjabi family, Sikh or Hindu, getting ready for Lohri, with grandparents who sing "Sundar mundriye" and children who do not yet know who Dulla Bhatti was. It is written for a baby's or a newly married couple's first Lohri as well as for the regular family bonfire evening.

Inside: the story of Dulla Bhatti and the forest wedding of Sundri and Mundri, retold in simple words for ages 5 to 9 across two pages, with a short note for grown-ups on how the legend is told and what the record shows. The bonfire song follows in Gurmukhi, in English letters you can sing from, and with a plain-English meaning for each line, plus a page for your own family's verses. There is a first-Lohri keepsake for a baby (with space for a hand or footprint and a photo) and one for newlyweds, a checklist of what goes into the fire (sesame, jaggery, rewri, gajak, peanuts, popcorn), a one-page script for explaining Lohri to classmates, a Punjabi word list in Gurmukhi, an interview sheet for grandparents, and a page of dates and sources.

The date is not printed as a single day: Lohri is January 13 in most years and January 14 in some, so the booklet tells you to confirm the evening for 2027 with your family or gurdwara. It describes the festival as families keep it and does not speak for any community. Prints on US Letter or A4.

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

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