Looking for a fun way to celebrate a Happy Chinese New Year with your children, then look no further than these fun printable Chinese New Year Activities for kids.
We love celebrating the Chinese New Year with our children.
It is important to us that our children are taught about different cultures and countries and a great way is through their different celebrations, like learning about Chinese celebrations like the Chinese New Year.
We highlighted this Chinese New Year Printable along with some other fun kid's crafts in our January Crafts for Kids along with our 101+ Easy Craft Ideas for kids.
You also do not want to miss our 101+ Printable Coloring Pages For Kids and 101+ Printables For Kids full of Crafts and Coloring Pages.
Do not miss our 50+ Free Printable Word Searches For Kids!
What is the Chinese New Year?
It's a Chinese festival celebrating the new year based on the Chinese calendar or lunar calendar. The festival is sometimes called the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year. The lunar year celebration starts with the first new moon of the lunar calendar.
Each new year is celebrated with lots of fun Chinese traditions and parades. There are lots of fun activities wishing your family and friends a Happy New Year and good fortune.
If you are looking for a fun Chinese New Year Craft along with this fun coloring page, then we have lots of great easy crafts for kids of all ages.
What You Need for This Printable
All you need is a printer, some paper, and something to color with.
How is Chinese Celebrate the Lunar New Year
There are so many great pieces to the public festivals. There are giant dragon and lion dances and are decorated with incredible red lanterns and beautiful art pieces. Some art pieces adorn the year's animal determined by the Chinese Zodiac Calendar.
- Tiger - 2022 is the year of the tiger
- Rabbit - 2023 is the year of the rabbit
- Dragon - 2024 is the year of the dragon
- Snake - 2025 is the year of the snake
- Horse - 2026 is the year of the horse
- Goat - 2027 is the year of the goat
- Monkey - 2028 is the year of the monkey
- Rooster - 2029 is the year of the rooster
- Dog - 2030 is the year of the dog
- Pig - 2031 is the year of the pig
- Rat - 2032 is the year of the rat
- Ox - 2033 is the year of the
Check out these other Chinese New Year Coloring Pages!
Lunar New Year Printables
My creative daughter especially loves the HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR coloring page.
We love this sweet Happy Chinese New Year Coloring page!
You get electronic-free fun, downtime to color, and spend time together. My kids adore word searches and love any chance they get to solve one.
When I sit my kids down with these sheets, they sit for a good thirty minutes to an hour coloring and giggling and talking to each other (and me) about all kinds of things going on in their life.
Resources for Printables
I get asked a lot about resources for all our printable activities for kids. Here are some of our favorite resources from paper to printers and more.
Download Your Free Printables Chinese New Year Activities
Other Chinese New Year Crafts You Might Enjoy
- Grab some construction paper and make paper lanterns
- How to Make a Chinese Dragon Puppet
- How to make a paper lantern
- Chinese New Year Drum
- Felt Fortune Cookies with Free Printable Blessings
- Giant Paper Lantern DIY Tutorial
Chinese New Year Crafts
Some fun Chinese New Year crafts to celebrate the lunar new year.
Chinese Dragon Puppet
One of our absolute favorite kids crafts. This free printable dragon gives kids the chance to cut, color and create a fun Chinese Dragon puppet. Perfect for any Chinese New Year Celebration!
Chinese New Year Drum + Printable
These Chinese New Year Drums are fun to make for the kids. I've also included a free printable HAPPY coloring page that can be added to the drum to make your child's drum as unique as they are!
Rainbow Felt Fortune Cookies
These fun felt beauties are fun for all ages. There is a free printable blessing which is great for the Chinese New Year.
How to make Paper Lanterns
These fun paper lanterns can be used for any celebration including Chinese New Year!
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