Lunar New Year Activities for Kids

The Lunar New Year begins on Feb. 16, so there’s plenty of time to think about activities you can do with your kids related to the holiday.

The upcoming year is the year of the dog, which of course provides lots of crafting opportunities.

But if you want specific Chinese New Year projects, here are some options for you.

Tips from a Typical Mom has a nice roundup of Chinese New Year related activities, including crafts, songs, learning to use chopsticks and information about the upcoming year:

The sign of 2018 Earth Dog is mountains over mountains. 2018 will be a very strong Earth. That implies the events related to land, real estate, county territory, agriculture, earthquake, mineral and the Earth will be more active than before. In Chinese astrology, Earth is also connected to stability, meditation and religion. Many people will be interested in spiritual or religious study.

She also has some fun dog crafts.

The Imagination Box has a great Year of the Dog art activity that is a free download at Teachers Pay Teachers, which is part of her larger activity pack that runs $5.95.

Holidappy has some year of the dog coloring pages, with different kinds of dogs so you can download and color one that looks like your dog.

And Red Ted Art has a nice collection of general Chinese New Year crafts and activities that are great for any year. Lots of great dragon crafts, musical instruments and more.

Do you celebrate Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year with your kids? I’d love to know what you do!

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Celebrate Earth Day with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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