Chinese
New Year Links
(including general links on China and Chinese
customs)
Updated on
25 June 2008
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Activity Village's Chinese New Year pages
In our quest for some good Chinese New Year activities, we have come
across some wonderful sites on the web which will give you and your
children a real taste of this colourful festival as well as Chinese
traditions and customs in general - whether they originate in Asia or
elsewhere in the world.
The Year of the
Rat (2008)
What do you know about people born
in the Year of the Rat (1984, 1996, 2008)? Read about their characteristics
here
http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/zodiac/Rat.html
Year of the Rat bookmark
to print
http://www.primarygames.com/print_zone/bookmarks/animals/rat.htm
Check out your luck
forecast for 2008!
http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2008.htm
More Chinese New Year Links...
Learn!
Lots of information about Chinese New Year
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html
A
Chinese New Year lesson plan, including some good printables (make your own
lucky money envelope, learn to use chopsticks, how silk is made, and more)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/unit_chinesenewyear_PR.htm
Another lesson plan for Chinese New Year. This one has a fun Chinese
calligraphy reproducible
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/Jan05_china.htm
Learn
all about Chinese painting techiques
http://www.asia-art.net/chinese_tech_brush.html
Look
at and enjoy some Chinese scroll paintings
http://www.thavibu.com/china/index.htm
Outline map of China
http://www.abcteach.com/china/chinamap1.htm
Read
about life in China for an American family with four kids!
http://www.mondovista.com/china33.html
Take a
look at Chinese currency on this page
http://www.chinatour.com/currency/currency.htm
Perhaps you could use the images to create your own pretend currency to use
in the classroom or home?
This
UK home-schooling family's site has some wonderful ideas for a Chinese New
Year project
http://www.muddlepuddle.co.uk/Chinese%20new%
20year/Our%20Spring%20Festival.htm
Find
out about Chinese papercuts
http://www.isaacnet.com/culture/papercut.htm
Learn
how to use chopsticks at this website
http://east.portland.ne.jp/%7Ek_tok/life01.htm
Fun for teachers - find out what
characteristics your class will have according to their Chinese horoscope
http://www.planetesme.com/chinesenewyear.html
Make!
Cute patterns to make a little Chinese girl and a
Chinese lantern with hamma beads NEW!
http://www.jufjanneke.nl/Project%20China/Kralenplank%20Chinese.pdf
http://www.jufjanneke.nl/Project%20China/
Kralenplank%20Chinese%20lantaren.pdf
Make a noisy dragon - part craft, part science
experiment NEW!
http://www.creativesteps.co.uk/pdfs/dragon.pdf
Make a
good luck "fu" poster
http://www.chinapage.com/word/luck.html
Make a
lion mask
http://www.childbook.com/free/projects/lion.html
The lion dance is performed during the lantern festival at the
end of the Chinese New Year celebrations. Children can make their own lion
mask with a paper plate, yellow construction paper and other bits and pieces
Make a
Chinese Yo Yo
http://www.makingfriends.com/yoyo.htm
If you have any “metallic” wrapping paper, use it for a better and more
long-lasting result!
Make a
Happy New Year poster
http://www.chineseparade.com/pdf/CNY%20banners.pdf
Print!
Design and print out your own personalized red packets
(lucky money envelopes) NEW!
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/hongBow_v4.html
Print
and colour these Chinese New Year cards
http://www.crayola.com/cardcreator/index.cfm?action=holidays&id=25
Print
Hui Chun - little messages or wishes - to hang around the house for Chinese
New Year
http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/interactive/huichun/index.jhtml
Have
fun with this printable dragon fortune teller
http://www.tammyyee.com/origamidragon.html
Here’s
a traditional Chinese good luck scroll to print
http://www.afk.com/images/scroll.gif
Print and make!
Print,
colour and make a Chinese lantern
http://www.crayola.com/activitybook/print.cfm?id=898
Here
is a super printable origami project – a dragon puppet for Chinese New Year
http://www.tammyyee.com/origamidpup.html
Have
fun with this simple panda craft made from hearts, great for younger
children
http://www.first-school.ws/activities/shapes/animals/panda-hearts.htm
Print
and make this mini-book about the Chinese New Year
http://www.chineseparade.com/pdf/CNY%20celebration%20worksheet.pdf
Print
and make this Chinese dragon lantern
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/crafts/chinese-paper-lantern.htm
Print
and make these Chinese papercuts
http://www.chinasprout.com/html/chinasprout_activity_center.html
Do!
Try to
unscramble the names of these Chinese zodiac animals
http://www.edhelper.com/themes/chinesenewyear_1.htm
Have
fun with this Chinese New Year maze
http://www.edhelper.com/ChineseNewYearMaze.htm
Try
this crossword based on the book Day of the Dragon King by Mary Pope Osborne
(a Magic Treehouse story) – the clues are all about China and its’ history
http://www.abcteach.com/free/c/crswd_dayofthedragnoking.pdf
Enjoy!
Online Chinese New Year games to play,
including some fun tangrams, Chinese character puzzles, and a series of
activities in "Countdown to the New Year" which introduce many of the
traditions of the holiday
http://pbskids.org/sagwa/games/index.html
Just
for fun, try "translating" your name into Chinese (Mandarin)
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
Chinese New Year song - words, music and actions to enjoy with little ones
http://www.nancymusic.com/Gunghayplay.htm
Have a
look at some Chinese characters (perhaps use them as 'clipart' to decorate
your projects?)
http://www.chinapage.com/word/chineseword.html
Try
this giant panda cam!
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/
Have
fun singing these songs about Chinese New Year, all sung to well-known
nursery rhyme tunes
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems54.html
Play!
Tangrams were invented in China. You can print out a set here, and then
print out a number of puzzle pages to challenge your children
http://www.funorama.com/tangram.html
Play
this excellent online "patience" game using Mahjong tiles (we called it
"turtle" when we were young). There is a special, smaller-sized, kid's
version.
http://www.thepuzzlefactory.com/swf.cfm?
pftype=dynasty&pffilename=dynasty
Learn
to play Mahjong
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/mahjong/mahjong.html
Mahjong is a fun family game, similar to gin rummy. As children my brother
and I used to love shuffling the tiles around and building the walls for the
next hand!
Chinese New Year games to play online
http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/chinese/games.htm
Read!
Enjoy these China-themed illustrated
children's stories, to read online NEW!
http://www.electricscotland.com/kids/stories/chinese.htm
Color!
Our
links to
Chinese New Year coloring pages are here
Cook!
Traditional recipes for Chinese New Year
http://www.101chinesenewyear.com/recipes.html
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