Chinese New Year

Wow what a fun time we have had this week celebrating Chinese New Year!

We  learnt about some of the ways people celebrate Chinese New Year…

Click here to watch the CBeebies video - Preparing for Chinese New Year

Click here to watch the CBeebies video - Celebrating Chinese New Year

We made paper lanterns and special red envelopes with money inside.  


Can you remember why the envelopes are red?

We listened carefully to find out how the animals of the Chinese Calendar decided who would have which year named after them. 

Can you remember which animal won the race?

 Click here to watch the story again. 

 We made our own calenders using pictures of the different animals. Can you remember which animal it is this year?

We looked at a hat that had come all the way from China. We had a go at making our own hats. Can you remember what shape our paper was to start with?

  

We decorated boxes and joined them together to make a big dragon's head! We used our dragon to perform dragon dances during 'Get Busy' time!

This morning we had so much fun having a Chinese New Year party.  We enjoyed playing instruments and  dancing to the music . We waved ribbons and made our little dragons dance too.