02/10/2026
🌼 Gandhi Jayanti – Foundational Stage (Nursery–Grade 2)
Theme: “Be Kind • Speak the Truth • Keep Our Surroundings Clean”
Date: 2 October – Gandhi Jayanti
Age Group: Nursery to Grade 2
Key Values: Truthfulness • Non-violence • Cleanliness • Kindness • Simplicity • Respect
👶 Nursery–LKG: “Bapu and Good Habits”
Simple conversation
This is Mahatma Gandhi. Children lovingly called him Bapu.
He believed in truth and kindness.
He taught people to keep their surroundings clean.
Activities
🧹 Cleanliness Drive: Pick up paper pieces and put them in the dustbin.
🕊️ Peace Activity: Make a simple paper dove.
🎨 Colouring: Colour a child-friendly picture of Gandhi with his spectacles.
💬 Good Habit Talk: “I will speak the truth.” / “I will keep my classroom clean.”
🧒 UKG–Grade 1: “Little Steps, Big Values”
Story: “Gandhi Ji and the Power of Truth”
After a short story, ask:
What did Gandhi Ji believe in?
Why should we tell the truth?
How can we keep our school clean?
How can we show kindness to our friends?
Activity: 🌱 My Bapu Promise Tree
Children make paper leaves and write/draw one promise:
“I will tell the truth.”
“I will help others.”
“I will not hurt anyone.”
“I will keep my classroom clean.”
📚 Grade 2: “Truth, Peace and Cleanliness”
Introduce three child-friendly ideas:
Gandhi Ji's Value
Child's Action
Truth
Tell the truth
Ahimsa
Do not hurt others
Cleanliness
Keep our surroundings clean
Kindness
Help someone
Simplicity
Avoid unnecessary waste
🎠Special Classroom Activity: “Be Like Bapu”
Children enact small situations:
Teacher: “You accidentally broke a crayon. What will you do?”
Child: “I will tell the truth and say sorry.”
Teacher: “You see paper on the floor.”
Child: “I will put it in the dustbin.”
Teacher: “Your friend is sad.”
Child: “I will be kind and help my friend.”
🎵 Rhyme
Little hands, clean and bright,
Little hearts, doing what is right.
Speak the truth and always care,
Keep our Earth and classroom fair.
Be kind, be peaceful, every day—
That is Bapu's special way! 🌼
🎯 Learning Outcomes
By the end of the activity, children will be able to:
identify Mahatma Gandhi/Bapu;
understand the simple ideas of truth, kindness, peace and cleanliness;
demonstrate one or more positive habits;
participate in a group activity;
express a simple personal promise.
Foundational-stage approach: Keep Gandhi Jayanti experiential rather than historical—children do not need dates, political history or lengthy speeches. The focus should be on values that they can see, practise and experience in their everyday lives.
Saima Anwar Khan
Teachers' Training
Headstart Learning Academy
