We have a huge collection of Chinese New Year printables here at Activity Village, including bookmarks, writing pages, printable crafts, paper dolls, games, posters, masks and lacing cards, and lots of printable pages based around the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. Our General Chinese New Year Activities for Children. We've got so many activities to explore, whether you are celebrating the Lunar New Year yourselves or just learning about it with your children - everything from colouring pages to crafts to puzzles to games to stories to worksheets and all sorts of fun printables! Looking for something fun to do this Chinese New Year? Why not print out some of our Chinese New Year puzzles - we've got a selection suitable for every Chinese new Year, and others for specific years. 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 to celebrate the Year of the Snake in 2025! Here are 35 of the most creative, colorful, crafty, cultural, and best of all, lucky activity ideas for you to try with your kids in celebration. 1. Chinese Dragon Puppet. This fun and easy Chinese dragon craft can be done in the classroom or at home with your kids. There are plenty of Chinese New Year activities that everyone can enjoy, from kids to adults to seniors. Bring some Chinese New Year cheer to your party gathering with activities like paper lantern making, traditional dragon dancing, fortune cookie decorating, and more. Here we cover the top 10 Chinese New Year activities, with preparation activities first before celebration activities. 1. New Year Shopping. Spring Festival activities, in fact, begin much earlier than the start of the festival. The most famous of which is Spring Festival shopping, similar to Christmas shopping in the West. Planning a Chinese New Year celebration is a great way for your class to get to find out all of the fun elements of Chinese New Year, from traditional food to parades and fireworks. CNY 2025 activity: Date and time : Cost: Chinatown Chinese New Year Street Lantern Light-up and Festive Fair : Till 28 February: Free, selected activities may require ticket purchases: Gardens By The Bay: Spring Blossoms At Flower Dome: Till 23 February: From S$12 : LEGO God of Fortune and CNY Fun at Suntec City: Till 9 February : Free The 15th day of the Chinese New Year is the Lantern Festival (元宵节 yuán xiāo jié). It traditionally marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebration. On this day, popular activities include lighting up lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, eating yuan xiao (a kind of rice ball), and enjoying time with families or lovers. Lots NEW! Here you will find a collection of fun Chinese New Year puzzles for kids of all ages - from boggler puzzles to mazes to word searches to codes and more! We also have collections for each of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, which you can find through the links here. These colourful bookmarks are just what you need to welcome a new Chinese New Year, the Year of the Tiger, on 1st February 2022. Just print, cut out and distribute! Children could write a mesage on the back and give them to their favourite people Here is a dragon collage craft idea for children, as well as a printable template you can use for your collage. This is a fun craft for kids of all ages at Chinese New Year - and particularly this year for Year of the Dragon - or St David's Day, St George's Day or a fairy tale theme. Here's a fun activity that helps the children learn two things - the Chinese zodiac and their ordinal numbers! They need to use the information on the worksheet to fill in the order of the animals in the Chinese zodiac, then cut out the cute animal cards and arrange them into order. For our Chinese New Year tuff tray, we have used chopsticks and pompoms. We have also used an ice cube tray and a wooden tray with numbers written on it. This activity is great for developing fine motor skills. It can also be used for counting, sorting and patterning. Chinese paper cuts are an ancient craft and tradition - and here at Activity Village is a tradition that we do one every year for Chinese New Year. Scroll down to find instructions and a template to produce 2 variations of this rat paper cut. Celebrate the Lunar New Year with these quick and easy Chinese New Year crafts for kids, which we think emphasise the colour and excitement and exuberance of the Spring Festival! We've got lantern crafts for the Lantern Festival, lots of Chinese blossom ideas for Spring, some wonderful Chinese dragons, home made (pretend) firecrackers and drums and kites and red envelopes and lots more for you There are 10 bingo cards and 1 calling card in this Chinese New Year bingo set, so the whole family or a big group of kids can join in the fun. And it's a great way to learn about the symbols of Chinese New Year, too, of course! Getting Ready for Chinese New Year. In the run up to Chinese New Year, homes are spring-cleaned thoroughly so that all the bad luck of the previous year is swept away (and on the first day of the new year, brooms and dustpans are put away and never used in case the good luck of the new year is swept away!) Often houses are freshly painted These Chinese Zodiac Jigsaws to print, cut out and play with make a great quick activity for children at Chinese New Year or any time of year. We've got our standard printable jigsaws for all the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. For these you can choose from one of our jigsaw outlines as appropriate for your child, or of course cut your own. We also have some brand new and number, ordinal number
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