Celebrating festivals from other countries and cultures is a wonderful, fun way to introduce your children to the wide world. Chinese new year is being celebrated on Monday 23rd January 2012 and this year it’s the Year of the Dragon. Here are our ideas to welcome the Chinese new year with your kids.
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Are you celebrating the Chinese new year next week? I like to observe celebrations from around the world with the children as I think it open their eyes to diverse cultures, showing them how people around the world are different but how the basis of many traditions are very similar too. We . . . → Read More: Rabbit craft With Earth Day and St. George’s Day both falling in this week, why not combine the two to make a Recycled Egg Box Dragon? Big says he’s ‘fantastically ferocious’!
You will need: 3 egg boxes, green paint & a paint brush, red paper, 2 treasury tags, glue / sticky tape, red and black . . . → Read More: Egg Box Dragon These paper lanterns are a great way for young children to practise their scissor skills and perfect for decorating the house in time for the Chinese New Year celebrations on February 14th. Red is the traditional celebration colour in China but as the lanterns look so good you might like to make some in your child’s . . . → Read More: Chinese lantern scissor skills . . . → Read More: Children’s books for Chinese New Year the year of the tiger The Chinese Year of the Tiger begins 14th February 2010 Following on from the Chinese New Year ideas in the last post, we made a tiger finger puppets today. And we had so much fun making them that my daughter said ‘Can we make a thousand?’ Hope you like them too. You will need: some card*, . . . → Read More: Tiger Finger puppet for Chinese New Year  |
   
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