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Rooster Crafts and Activities for Chinese New Year

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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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Games to Make with LEGO Bricks

When my daughter was younger she had a ton of LEGO bricks, and I’m honestly a little sad we got rid of most of them because there are so many fun things to do with LEGOs outside of the kits you bought them in. 

I love seeing all the ideas people have for LEGO building challenges, and I have shared some ideas for LEGO games before, but I saw one on Pinterest the other day that I felt was worth a mention. 

This one is for those ’80s and ’90s kids who spent sick days home from school watching “The Price is Right”: LEGO Plinko!

For those who don’t know about Plinko, the original was a giant peg board set up at an angle and the contestant would drop a flat disc at the top of the board. As it moved down the board it would hit the pegs and change the way it moved, and there would be different prizes in the slots at the bottom where the piece would land. 

This version from Play Party Game works on the same principle, using LEGO bricks to make the game board and marbles in place of the Plinko disc since your game board isn’t flat. 

You can really use whatever bricks you have for this build, and while it shows all the pegs the same size and evenly spaced, you can play with different configurations and see what happens. It’s engineering and a game!

And while you’re playing with your LEGOs, make sure to check out this post from Kids Craft Room that includes minute to win it style games you can do with LEGO. From speed sorting to tower building as fast as you can, these ideas are sure to get you thinking about different ways to play with LEGO.

And if you need even more ideas, check out my post with LEGO building challenges you can print out for kids (and adults!) to try. 

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