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Rooster Crafts and Activities for Chinese New Year

January 18, 2017 by Sarah White 3 Comments

Rooster crafts for Chinese New Year.

The year that begins with Chinese New Year on Jan. 28 is the year of the rooster, so I thought it would be fun to share some rooster crafts and activities you can make to learn about and celebrate the new year. Make some lanterns, too, and you’ll be all ready to celebrate!

Holidappy has some great templates for a rooster with the Chinese character for rooster on the body. The post shows making a little felt rooster, which would be great. You could also paste the cut out shapes to a small paper plate, or use the half rooster template on a plate folded in half, use the black and white versions (some are quite embellished) as a coloring sheet and more.

Kids Play Box has a beautiful process art activity for painting a rooster using a fork to make the feathers. The recycled rooster from Art Projects for Kids is fantastic, too.

This is from what looks like the Russian version of Pinterest, and there’s just a picture, but don’t these cutout roosters (and swans) look amazing? If you can draw a rooster head shape the rest is pretty straightforward.

Or make a handprint rooster puppet, from See What We Did Today, or a cardboard tube rooster (these instructions are in French, but you get the idea).

And if you’d like a dragon craft or two, I adore this cupcake liner dragon from IHeartCraftyThings. So cool and pretty easy to make, too.

dragon crafts for Chinese New Year

Tips from a Typical Mom has a great collection of Chinese New Year activities you might want to try, as well as even more rooster crafts and projects. Make sure you print a dragon mask or two to color.

Do you craft for or otherwise celebrate Chinese New Year? I’d love to hear what you do.

Looking for more resources? Check out these Chinese New Year books for kids.

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Comments

  1. Pickahome says

    July 8, 2017 at 5:42 am

    Such a great creativity! Thanks for sharing 🙂

  2. Mindmysearch says

    July 26, 2017 at 1:30 am

    This is so adorable. Simply WOW! Thanks for sharing 🙂

  3. CBSE Guide says

    August 12, 2017 at 8:04 am

    These are so cute and fun ideas! Thanks for sharing the post 🙂

Have you read?

Printable Letter Books for Preschoolers

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!

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