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To prepare this activity, I drew a giant dragon using black acrylic paint on a roll of drawing paper the night before.
Then, we taped it to a picnic table and provided the kids with tempera paint.
Here's the result of their joint efforts. (Children as young as 2 and as old as 10 painted.)
And that's it! If you're interested in the other activities we had at the playdate, we also....
- Used origami paper to fold origami dogs
- Practiced writing Chinese characters (like "fu") on red construction paper using washable tempera paint
- Held a mini-dragon parade (One of the super talented mothers made a cardboard dragon for us to use!)
- Threw snap poppers on the ground to imitate "fireworks"
- Handed out red envelopes to kids
- Did a toy swap (every child brought an old toy and exchanged it with another child's old toy)
And as always, if you're interested in more craft ideas, check out the links below:
More Chinese New Year Crafts
Happy Lunar New Year friends!
Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival, is the most important Chinese holiday, commemorating the start of a new year according to the Chinese lunar calendar. The 16-day festival begins on Chinese New Year's Eve and concludes on the 15th day of the new lunar year. The Chinese New Year always occurs between January 21st and February 21st, and it usually falls on the new moon closest to the start of spring. The Chinese New Year was originally regarded as a time to commemorate ancestors, as well as household and heavenly deities. The holiday was also a time to gather family for a feast, which meant that business would come to a halt and the economy would suffer. Get some retro-inspired games here for your friends.
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