Celebrating Chinese New Year

A stack of 3 part cards I made for E about Chinese New Year in the categories I listed below. We do this in addition to making some CNY crafts and reading some stories related to the event.

by Alison

January 26th, 2009 - Year of the Ox.

If you'd like to cover the entirety of the CNY celebration, please be sure to run a search for:

Chinese New Year -

history

animal sign and symbols

celebration

traditions and customs

decorations

flowers and plants

food

I made some Chinese New Year 3-part cards for E from my aggregation of images I found when running the searches. I kept them in the categories as abovementioned but am, unfortunately, unable to share lest I should fall into infringement of copyright laws. I can, however, share the animal symbols 3-part cards as they are the only ones copyright free although one must refrain from selling them. Let me know if you're interested and I can share them with you via Adobe Acrobat.

Some good links for craft and activities:

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/chinese-new-year/
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/festivals/chinese.htm

http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/festivals/chinese/activities.html http://www.tes.co.uk/searchResults.aspx?area=resources&keywords=chinese+new+year&subject=&resourcetype=&phase=
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese_new_year.htm
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/china_for_kids.htm
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/ChineseNewYear/ChineseNewYear.aspx

You can also visit my other blog www.barefootbooksmissouri.blogspot.com to view a book that is appropriate for this event. It's called The Great Race.

Have fun!