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!

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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