Affiliate Links The Chinese New Year is a celebration rich in traditions perfect for exploring with kids of all ages. […]
The Year of the Snake begins next weekend. In celebration of Chinese New Year, the girls and I made paper snakes. We repurposed an empty paper towel tube to
Looking for a cute Chinese dragon craft for kids? This paper dragon puppet craft is an easy craft you can make with kids to celebrate the spring festival or the Chinese New Year, lantern festival, or on Appreciate a Dragon Day. This dragon craft is made of accordion folds with paper straws beneath it. Moving
I love finding unique ways to craft with recyclable materials. This week with the Chinese New Year on our mind, we created this fun egg carton dragon craft. Some of the steps are bit advanced for
This is the BEST paper tube Koi Fish, and one of several other Lunar New Year Animal inspired art lessons that we offer. This fun DIY craft is an original idea from ART CAMP Studio. It's a great year round project for all ages.
A Chinese New Year party with kids can be a lot of fun, and this list of 60 Chinese New Year Crafts and activities for kids is just what you need!
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Looking for an easy Chinese New Year Craft that you can make with kids of all ages? Try making these paper chain dragons. Can't draw? Don't worry! Download the free printable below and you'll be making tons of dancing paper dragons in no time! How to Make Chinese New Year Paper Chain Dragons How to Make Paper Chain Dragons: 1. Print out and color this paper chain dragon printable here. (Note: The printable is free for download. If you're logged in at a school, sometimes your administrator will not allow you to download items from webpages. To get around that, simply log into your personal email account at home and try downloading the printable. Then you should be able to get it.) Then, cut out the pieces. (The template for the strips was hard for my tiny preschooler's hands to curl. So I extended it a bit if you're working with younger children. 2. Cut out strips of paper for your paper chains. (We traced construction paper, but to make this a recycled craft, just trace old newspaper or magazines!) 3. Staple your face onto a strip. 4. Then, proceed to make your paper chains. (Staple the legs to pieces as you make them.) When you're finished, staple your tail onto the end. We made two- one was made from 9 pieces and the other was out of 11 pieces. But I saw this really neat version on the Frugal Handmade that was super long! She also made her face facing sideways, which makes it great for hanging up as decoration.) 8 More Awesome Chinese New Years Crafts! Chinese New Years Lion Puppet and Handprint Dragon Paper Dragon Kite Puppet Giant Dragon Collaborative Art Folded Paper Lanterns Paper Blossom Twigs Paper Bag Lion Masks Watercolor Painted Fans Recycled Toilet Roll Dragon Puppet Happy making, friends!
Please note that this is the step-by-step tutorial showing the making of the Chinese New Year Roosters! The FREE PATTERN can be found HERE! You can also find the pattern as an INEXPENSIVE AD-FREE…
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Ready for a fun Chinese New Year Craft? Chinese New Year is one of those really fun holidays that I enjoyed celebrating as a kid. Yummy food, wearing new clothes, red envelopes filled with money, and watching cool dragon and lion dancing? Come on, what's not to love? Since the holiday is just around the corner, I showed Chuck some lion dancing videos (Youtube to the rescue!) and then thought it'd be fun if we did some dragon crafts together: Two Chinese New Year Dragon Crafts Little background about me- Growing up I always felt like a "twinkie." Yellow on the outside, white on the inside. You see, I looked Asian, but I didn't always feel that way. Now that Chuck's getting a bit older, hubby and I are trying to figure out how two twinkies like us pass down their cultural traditions. (Ehh... it's a work in progress....) This craft is one way that we're trying to pass down our tradition. And, in the interest of full disclosure, Chuck really enjoyed making the handprint dragon.... but he wasn't too keen on coloring my paper bag dragon pieces. However, once I colored and glued everything down for him, he enjoyed playing with it like a puppet. So, do you wanna see how we made these two dragons? (I've got templates too! Ooh la la!) Keep on reading! (And if you like this craft, definitely check out this dancing Chinese Dragon Puppet. It actually dances and is made from recycled materials!) This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! Our Favorite Chinese New Year Books To go along with this dragon craft, here are some of our favorite Chinese New Year Books! The Runaway Wok Bringing In the New Year My First Chinese New Year Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year Celebrating Chinese New Year Chinese Hand print Dragon Craft Materials to make hand print dragon: Water color paper Paint Paint brushes Scissors Pen Glue Download this template for head, tail, and claws Directions to make hand print dragon: Note: I found inspiration from Baa Baa Beep. She made lovely dragon scales by simply tracing her children's hands onto construction paper. So if you like that idea better, check her blog out! 1. Have your child paint pieces of paper. 2. Once the paint dries, trace handprints onto your piece of paper and cut them out. (We used 9 or 10 hand prints.) 3. Glue them like scales to your body piece. 4. Color in your head, claw, and tail pieces. (I drew them onto watercolor paper, so we painted them with watercolors.) 5. Cut them out and then glue them onto your body. You're done! Chinese Paper Bag Dragon Puppet Materials to make Chinese New Year Paper Bag Dragon: Download this template for head, body, and mouth Crayons (or markers) Glue Scissors Paper Bag Directions to make Chinese New Year Paper Bag Dragon: (This one is super easy to make.) 1. Color in your pieces. 2. Cut them out. 3. Glue them onto your paper bag. (Chuck's arm is pretty small, so I cut the paper bag so that it was shorter.) Now you're ready to perform your own dragon dance! Interested in 8 other AWESOME Chinese New Yearcrafts? Check these out! Chinese New Years Lion Puppet and Handprint Dragon Paper Dragon Kite Puppet Giant Dragon Collaborative Art Folded Paper Lanterns Paper Blossom Twigs Paper Bag Lion Masks Watercolor Painted Fans Recycled Toilet Roll Dragon Puppet Happy crafting, friends.
While everyone just finished welcoming in the New Year, my family and I are awaiting another New Year’s celebration. January 28th is the Chinese Lunar New Year and for my Vietnamese family it is Tết . *This post contains affiliate links* I have been talking to my daughter about the upcoming holiday, so over the weekend, we made […]
A Chinese New Year party with kids can be a lot of fun, and this list of 60 Chinese New Year Crafts and activities for kids is just what you need!
This recycled Dragon toilet paper tube kids craft is simple enough for preschoolers, great for Lunar New Year, & perfect to enhance imaginative knight play.
À cette occasion du Nouvel An chinois, pourquoi ne pas bricoler avec votre enfant le symbole de la fête : le majestueux dragon rouge ! Représentant la bravoure, la noblesse et la chance, le dragon et sa fameuse dance au rythme des percussions sont une des traditions du Nouvel An chinois. Facile à réaliser, faites bouger votre dragon […] More
Learn how to make paper fortune cookies with our printable DIY template! Surprise friends with Chinese proverbs and positive message strips.
Make a fun craft for Chinese New Year or any time you're learning about China when you make this Chinese Rattle Drum craft for kids.
This fire breathing dragon made from a toilet paper roll is an easy kids craft that uses simple craft supplies. When you blow into the end of the tube the tissue paper looks like flames coming out of the dragon's mouth! Fire Breathing Dragon Craft Add this activity to your crafty bucket list, because it's SO MUCH FUN! And it's ridiculously simple to make. Kids, toddlers and preschoolers will love to see the dragon blowing fire! The photos make me smile, just looking at them. Watch the Video Tutorial Here: (Or scroll down for the step-by-step photo tutorial and printable
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Buy Spiral Snake Mobiles at Baker Ross. Create ’sssssuper’ hanging decorations! Pre-printed card mobiles to colour in with our fibre pens or Deco pens, and then hang for ’sssstunning’ effects! 2 assorted. Size approx. 30cm when han
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Happy belated Chinese New Year! This past week I visited my son's classroom and did some Chinese New Year themed crafts with his friends. I'd love to claim today's craft as my own because it's so awesome. But, I can't take any credit. My son actually made it in his class. (The teacher found the idea in The MailBox and graciously allowed me to share it here.) Isn't it super neat? Awesome New Year's Dragon Kite Puppets! This post contains affiliate links. This means I make a small portion off of any purchases made through the links at no additional cost to you. Thank you for the grocery money! For my full disclosure policy, click here. My son made this one in class, so I'll just show you what it looks like so you can make it too. The body of the dragon was cut out from a red envelope, but you can also use red paper. They folded down the face portion and drew scales and a face on one side. (Also, you'll notice they used a bit of glitter to give it a bit more pizazz.) This is what the dragon looks like with the face folded over. The popsicle stick is glued to the back of the folded over face. Colorful tissue paper strips were also glued on. The flutter really prettily when the dragon flies around. And here's how you hold your puppet/ kite! I hope you have fun trying out this Chinese New Year craft with your kiddos. And, as always- if you're looking for more Chinese New Year themed crafts, check out the links below! More New Year's themed crafts: Giant Collaborative Dragon Painting Folded Lantern Fun Tissue Paper Blossoms Paper Bag Lion Masks Dancing Dragon Puppet Cherry Blossom Art (with template) Two Dragon Crafts Happy making, friends!
Chinese Calligraphy Banners created by 3rd graders
http://www.makingbooks.com/step.shtml My husband and I went to Korea last month where I was part of the Seungnam International Book Art Fair. I exhibited some of the Spirit Books and gave a coupleof workshops to children. We were welcomed with wonderful hospitality and had a chance to make friends from Korea and around the world. Our trip was only six days with two of them in airports and in the air so it took us a while to recover after our return home. I'll be posting information about the trip sometime soon. I always like to show some sample ways of using the books I make in workshops. Here's a book that I took to Korea. The first page says counting book followed by the numbers from one to nine. I used five sheets of 4.25" x 11" colored copy paper (standard size sheets cut in half vertically). The step book works great for a counting book as the page revealed after lifting each step gets larger as you move along the book. For a variation, you can bind it using the stick and elastic technique instead of yarn. http://www.makingbooks.com/elastic.shtml Links Numbers in Different Languages A counting book can be an entry into a different culture. I'm planning on making a larger counting book with the following: 1 palace (we visited Gyeongbokgung (Gyeongbok Palace), 2 chopsticks (Korean chopsticks are made of stainless steel), 3 azalea blossoms (I was introduced to one of Korea's most famous poems by its translator David R. McCann who is the brother of a friend from the Children's Museum), 4 handmade brushes (I bought a beautiful one in a shop in Insadong in Seoul), 5 birds (as far as I can tell the common birds we saw and loved were black-billed magpies), 6 children playing badminton (we saw lots in the park on the weekend), 7 bowls of kimchi (the fermented cabbage dish is served at every meal), 8 pairs of slippers (there were slippers in the hotel room, outside the dining room in a restaurant, and in bins at the airport where we had to take off our shoes), 9 Dunkin Donuts coffees (we were surprised to see containers of Dunkin Donuts coffee arrive at the exhibition hall especially when we have friends in the western US who miss them terribly) Wikipedia has well organized sets of numbers from one to ten in different languages. Korean Numbers There are two kinds of numbers in Korean: pure Korean numbers and Sino-Korean numbers. The numbers in the Counting Book above are Sino-Korean numbers. Sino-Korean Numbers Pronunciation: 1= il 2= ee 3= sam 4= sa 5= oh 6= yook 7= chil 8= pal 9= goo 10= ship You can hear them and then test yourself with a concentration game here. Korean Number Song You may find this cute or irritating but it does go through the Korean numbers from one to ten. Adapted from the May 2007 issue of Making Books Monthly Free subscriptions available at makingbooks.com
Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and we'd like to share some crafty goodness to help you and your kids participate in this festive holiday.
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While everyone just finished welcoming in the New Year, my family and I are awaiting another New Year’s celebration. January 28th is the Chinese Lunar New Year and for my Vietnamese family it is Tết . *This post contains affiliate links* I have been talking to my daughter about the upcoming holiday, so over the weekend, we made […]
Simple children's palette drum craft for Chinese New Year.
Children plus glass plus twinkling lights equals a super fun craft to help the entire family celebrate the Lunar New Year!
A photo journal of our day reading and doing activities on The Worst Princess as part of The Summer Book Exchange project.
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To end with flourish the topic about China with the students of 6th Year at Cherry Garden Primary School we have made a great Chinese dragon using paper plates. Each one has painted her paper …
Hi everyone! I bet you’re here for some great ideas for Chinese New Year, right? I’m so glad you found me! I’ve been waiting for you to get here. Be sure to follow me by subscribing to my weekly newsletter so you don’t miss out on all the fun things I share each week. I […]
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