Chinese
New Year Links
(including general links on China and Chinese
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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.
Year of the Tiger (2010)
What are the
characteristics of people born in the Year of the Tiger?
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A collection of
Tiger colouring pages
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Here is a
fierce tiger paper mask to colour and cut out
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All about tigers, from National Geographic for Kids
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More Chinese New Year Links...
Learn!
A look at Chinese painting
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/chinese/html_pages/index.htm
Virtual tour of china
http://www.kiku.com/electric_samurai/virtual_china/index.html
Ancient
Chinese clothing
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/clothing/
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
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 paper cuts
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!
Chinese New Year drum
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http://home.howstuffworks.com/chinese-new-year-crafts2.htm
Dragon sock puppet
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http://www.swazzle.com/pdfs/dragonsockpuppet.pdf
Very cute "Chinese lanterns" made with jam jars and tissue
paper
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http://www.alphamom.com/holiday/2009/01/
celebrate_chinese_new_year_wit_1.php
Cute patterns to make a little
Chinese girl and a Chinese lantern with hamma beads
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
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!
Cute Chinese New Year and Year of the Ox lai see envelopes (also known as li
see, red packets or lucky money envelopes) to print
http://documents.scribd.com/docs/1jjb5vs4nzqht2ncl13e.pdf
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Very cute little Year of the Ox
notes to print
http://triciarennea.blogspot.com/2009/01/year-of-ox-notes.html
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Design and print out your own personalized red packets (lucky money
envelopes)
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
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!
Dragon lantern to print and make
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Instructions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/events/worksheets/chinesenewyear_lantern.pdf
Cut out:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/events/worksheets/pdf/
chinesenewyear_cutout.pdf
Print and colour this large Chinese dragon banner
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http://www.scissorcraft.com/dragons5.htm
Make a dragon puppet
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Head:
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/ChineseNewYear/
MakeADragon/dragonHeads.shtml
Body:
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/ChineseNewYear/
MakeADragon/dragonBody.shtml
Tail:
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/ChineseNewYear/
MakeADragon/dragonTails.shtml
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
Do!
Fill in the blanks worksheet
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/events/worksheets/pdf/
chinesenewyear_fillintheblanks.pdf
Chinese numbers worksheet
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/events/worksheets/pdf/
chinesenewyear_numerals.pdf
Chinese new year word search
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http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/chinese/games/
word_search/search.htm
Help the children
find their red envelopes in this maze
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http://edhelper.com/ChineseNewYearMaze.htm
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!
See If you can find your name here in Chinese
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http://www.chinese4kids.net/name.php
Or type your name
here for a translation
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
Chinese graphics
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http://www.chinapage.com/newyr.html
Watch a video clip of a Chinese dragon parade
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http://www.chcp.org/mpeg/index.html
Send an e-card
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http://www.123greetings.com/events/chinese_new_year/happy/
Online jigsaw
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http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/china-js.htm
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
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!
Lots of Chinese games to learn and play at home here
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http://www.childbook.com/Chinese-Children-Game-Instructions-s/79.htm
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!
Stories from Chinese classical literature NEW!
http://www.chinapage.com/story/story.html
Enjoy these China-themed illustrated children's stories, to read online
http://www.electricscotland.com/kids/stories/chinese.htm
Color!
Our
links to
Chinese New Year coloring pages are here
Cook!
Chinese lantern cakes
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http://www.nickjr.com/parenting/parenting_features/
chinese-new-year/lanternparty/oriental-recipes/chinese-new-year-lantern-cakes.jhtml
Traditional recipes for Chinese New Year
http://www.101chinesenewyear.com/recipes.html
The Year of the Ox (2009)
What do you know about people born in the Year of the OX (1985, 1997, 2009)?
Read about their characteristics here
http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/zodiac/Ox.html
Year of the Ox bookmark to print
http://www.primarygames.com/print_zone/bookmarks/animals/ox.htm
Check out your luck forecast for 2009!
http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2009.htm
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