Discover engaging Chinese New Year activities for EYFS, designed to support creativity, cultural understanding, and development. From dragon dances to lantern crafts, explore fun and educational ways to celebrate the festival in your early years setting. This colourful collection of Chinese and Lunar New Year Early Years activities and games is full of handy things to help you teach preschool children all about this celebration! Featuring craft activities, role-play masks, colouring and more! Use this EYFS Topic Planning Web: Chinese New Year to plan lots of exciting Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year themed activities for toddlers from ages 2-3. Are you looking for an activity to develop your toddler's small motor movements while they make marks? If so, this activity is for you! Chinese New Year marks the beginning of a new year on a traditional a Chinese calendar and is also known as Spring festival or Lunar New Year. People will often spend time with family and will celebrate by eating food, hanging lanterns and watching fireworks. Read on for 9 suggestions for activities and crafts chosen to celebrate Chinese New Year. 1. Chinese Restaurant Pretend Play: Why not transform the home corner into a Chinese Restaurant and include chopsticks and play dough scented with ginger or soy sauce. Add noodles for messy play or to taste. This colourful collection of Chinese and Lunar New Year Early Years activities and games is full of handy things to help you teach preschool children all about this celebration! Featuring craft activities, role-play masks, colouring and more! This blog explores engaging Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year activities, with exciting continuous provision ideas for early years practitioners to use with babies and toddlers aged 1-2. The perfect way to celebrate the annual festival. Use this EYFS Topic Planning Web: Chinese New Year to plan lots of exciting Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year themed activities for toddlers from ages 2-3. Help your children explore and celebrate all things Lunar and Chinese New Year! This blog is packed with great ideas, resources and activities to help you teach your children all about this special festival. Looking for exciting and engaging Lunar and Chinese New Year activities, resources and planning for early years? We've got ages 0-5 covered! Chinese New Year. Our range of Chinese New Year resources for schools and early years settings are selected to increase awareness this important holiday in the lunar calendar, understand the origins behind the Lunar New Years celebrations and learn all about how people celebrate, both traditionally and in the present day. A fun, practical and progressive Maths program from Birth to the end of Year 2 supporting White Rose Maths; Training videos to view at your convenience by amazing Early Years Leaders in the field; A supportive community of likeminded Early Years Practitioners with free access to an exclusive vetted group with anonymous posting Celebrating Chinese New Year - ideas and activities for early years settings Melanie Pilcher, quality and standards manager at the Alliance, shares some fun ideas for celebrating the Lunar New Year in your setting. Celebrate Chinese New Year 2025 with the Year of the Snake! Explore fascinating Year of the Snake facts, Chinese New Year activities for kids, fun crafts and Chinese zodiac facts for children. Discover traditions, celebrations and creative ideas for families. Early years; The legend of Chinese New Year. Part of Understanding the World Religions, festivals and celebrations. Save to My Bitesize Save to My Bitesize Saving Saved Removing Remove from My Pre-Chinese New Year Preparations and Activities (Jan. 7–Feb. 12, 2025) Jan. 7, 2025: Laba Festival. Some Chinese start to celebrate and prepare for Chinese New Year as early as day 8 of the 12 th month of the lunar calendar. Celebrate Chinese New Year 2025 with the Year of the Snake! Explore fascinating Year of the Snake facts, Chinese New Year activities for kids, fun crafts and Chinese zodiac facts for children. Discover traditions, celebrations and creative ideas for families. Every Chinese zodiac year from 1900–2031, full table and broken down by each zodiac. Find your year, animal, dates and element (metal, water, wood, fire, earth). By appreciating how cultures celebrate events such as Chinese New Year, you are giving early years children the tools to develop a diverse social network in adulthood. This article will give you a selection of early years activities to integrate Chinese New Year into your early years setting and continuous provision. Since the mid-1990s people in China have been given seven consecutive days off work during the Chinese New Year. This week of relaxation has been designated Spring Festival, a term that is sometimes used to refer to the Chinese New Year in general. The origins of the Chinese New Year are steeped in legend. One legend is that thousands of years
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