Discover engaging Chinese New Year activities for EYFS, designed to support creativity, cultural understanding, and development. From dragon dances to lantern crafts, explore fun and educational ways to celebrate the festival in your early years setting. Perfect for UK nurseries looking for cultural and festive learning activities. This Chinese New Year craft pack is designed to light up 2024 with colourful activities for your children to get stuck into. All the activities have been carefully planned by our talented teachers, so you know you’ll be making quality Chinese New Year crafts that children will love. By clicking the green download button above, you’ll find: Activities to celebrate the Year of the Dragon in Ideas for Lunar New Year activities for preschool children. EYFS Lunar New Year Animals Tangram Activity: The eight colourful shapes can be arranged in lots of different ways to make each animal of the Chinese zodiac. This in an excellent, themed activity to develop preschool children’s spatial skills and ability to mentally rotate shapes. For example, telling the story of the 12 animals who competed in a race to represent the years of the Chinese zodiac – these are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. Read on for 9 suggestions for activities and crafts chosen to celebrate Chinese New Year. 1. Chinese Restaurant Pretend Play: Lunar New Year Fine Motor Activities for Babies and Toddlers. Chinese New Year Water Tray. As oranges are traditionally eaten or given as gifts at Chinese New Year, you could make an orange-themed water tray for the babies and toddlers to explore. Simply provide orange water with whole oranges, sliced oranges and orange segments, along with Provide this fun and engaging Chinese and Lunar New Year Fine Motor Skills activity to help EYFS children to develop their fine motor skills. Chinese and Lunar New Year sensory activities for toddlers Chinese New Year Sensory Bag. Create a Chinese New Year Sensory Bag for your toddlers to explore! All you need is a ziplock bag, red food This blog explores activities and continuous provision ideas that early years practitioners can do with children aged 3-4 in their setting to learn about and celebrate Chinese and Lunar New Year! EYFS Ages 3-4 Topic Planning Web: Chinese New Year Chinese New Year Activity Tray Ideas (Ages 3-5) Chinese New Year Activity Planning and Continuous Provision Ideas (Ages 2-4) Chinese New Year Activities. Chinese New Year Story PowerPoint. Chinese New Year Dragon Mask. Chinese New Year Paper Craft Dragon. Chinese New Year Maths. Year of the Tiger Colour by Number. Chinese New Year Animals Tangram 'Chinese/Lunar New Year' Early Years (EYFS) Editable Printable Resources. Activities, games and displays we have made to support learning surrounding this event. Ideas for Childminder, Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten, Nursery Practitioner, Early Years Teacher. Teaching and learning, maths and literac "With customs including dragon dances, parades and fireworks there are possibilities for arts and crafts and activities that cover every area of the EYFS." Meanwhile, many supermarkets will take this opportunity to promote a tempting array of Asian dishes, which are an important part of the celebration. This EYFS plan contains a range of engaging Chinese New Year activities which are ideal for reception children to use. The plan includes adult-led activities along with ideas for enhancements to indoor and outdoor continuous provision. Chinese New Year activities for all seven Areas of Learning are included in this EYFS planning resource. There is a page for each Area of Learning and also a Use iPads to record and peer review their Chinese New Year dancing. Ongoing developmental writing linked to re telling a story. Write about one of the animals in the New Year Story. Captions Illustrations RWI Reading RWI ORT: Chinese New Year Range of books available in the reading area with links to China Fiction and non-fiction. Expressive Arts and Design for Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year. Fashion and Design with Image Inspiration. Do you have some budding fashion designers in your class? For a simple but open-ended activity, leave an activity tray filled with red and yellow fabric, feathers and exciting cut-offs. Teach your students all about Chinese New Year using these fantastic Chinese New Year Crafts for Children, specially designed for EYFS students. Whether you want to make your own Chinese drums (cue the earplugs for parents) or make the (quieter) paper lantern, there's an activity perfect for you. Lunar New Year Sensory Activities for Babies and Toddlers. Chinese New Year Treasure Basket. Introduce Chinese New Year to the babies in your early years setting with a Chinese New Year themed treasure basket. Get your basket and provide a range of resources linked to the celebration, such as red sensory scarves and chopsticks. Jan 19, 2015 - Explore Olivia Dowle's board "EYFS Chinese New Year" on Pinterest. See more ideas about chinese new year, chinese new year activities, chinese new year crafts. This EYFS continuous provision plan includes a range of Chinese New Year activities and ideas, ideal for reception children. The plan is arranged as a table which shows some typical areas of a reception classroom. Chinese New Year activities are shown for each of these different areas. These activities include: using small world toys to have animal races based on the Chinse zodiac story This Chinese New Year sensory bin from Gift of Curiosity looks amazing and the perfect way to involve younger kids in learning about the celebrations in a way they’ll really enjoy. Other Chinese New Year Activities. Try out these Chinese New Year songs and rhymes for circle time from Living Montessori Now. Need something to help you all relax? Here you'll find our Early Years Chinese and Lunar New Year Hub page to provide you with early years Lunar New Year support and EYFS Chinese New Year support. If you’d like to bring the colourful world of Chinese New Year to life, then you’ve come to the right place. Here at Twinkl, our talented team of designers has been busy making a load of arts and crafts to help you with just that. In this pack, you’ll find a collection of our very best resources, covering all of the Chinese zodiac animals. The instructions included in this downloadable
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