Celebrating Ayyám-i-Há

For many Baháʼí children, the upcoming celebration of Ayyám-i-Há is eagerly awaited: it's a time for the giving of gifts.

Baháʼís around the world celebrate Ayyám-i-Há with festivities, gifts, parties, service projects, and charitable humanitarian work. It is a time, wrote Bahá’u’lláh, when Baháʼís should “provide good cheer for themselves, their kindred and, beyond them, the poor and needy.”

Baháʼís set aside these days for joyous celebration, for service to others, and for charity. It is a fun, enjoyable time which precedes a period of fasting and reflection during the last Baháʼí month of the year.

Ayyám-i-Há this year corresponds to the five days 25 February - 1 March 2026.

There is much more on the significance and meaning of Ayyám-i-Há on the calendar page here.

Here are three possible activities for Primary KS1-KS2 relating to Ayyám-i-Há:

• Create an Ayyám-i-Há card. These examples on Baháʼí Blog might provide inspiration: 19 Great Ayyám-i-Há Greeting Cards

• Create a nine-pointed star wreath decoration for Ayyám-i-Há. Instructions here, courtesy of Brilliant Star magazine.

• And afterwards perhaps: What is Ayyám-i-Há? A fun video for Baha’i Blog, with cousins Jordan and Raj explaining the meaning and significance of Ayyám-i-Há (YouTube - 3 mins)