Looking for a fun way to celebrate the 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.
If you love printables for kids like these, then we have over 100 free for you to check out.
What is the Chinese New Year?
Its an Chinese festival celebrating the new year based on the Chinese calendar or lunar calendar. The festival, sometimes called the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year. The lunar year celebration starts with the first new moon of the lunar calendar.
What you need for this Chinese New Year Printables
All you need is a printer, some paper, and something to color with.
How is Chinese New Year Celebrated?
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.
2020 is the year of the rat
2021 is the year of the ox
2022 is the year of the tiger
2023 is the year of the rabbit
2024 is the year of the dragon
2025 is the year of the snake
What do you get with these Chinese New Year Free Printables?
You get electronic-free fun, down time to color and spend time together. My kids adore word searches and love any chance they get to solve one. My creative daughter especially loves the HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEARcoloring page.
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.
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!
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!
