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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. Introducing young children to Chinese New Year offers is a great way to develop cultural awareness while meeting key EYFS learning objectives. Through hands-on activities and sensory experiences, children can explore this vibrant celebration in an age-appropriate way. Here are 10 engaging activities perfect for your early years setting: 1. 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. 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. You can find a full list of items to include in your Chinese New Year Treasure Basket here. Support the 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 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: New Year celebrations can last for up to 15 days, known as the Spring Festival, so this is a great opportunity to immerse your setting in the festivities. You will broaden children’s horizons and celebrate cultures and traditions that may already be familiar to many children and families. This is a document to help teachers and early years practitioners with their Chinese New Years planning. Celebrations & Festivals Planning > EYFS/ KS1 Topic Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year are dates not to be missed in the calendar. It is important to explore different festivals and cultural celebrations from around the world with your toddlers, so this blog aims to provide some fantastic activities and ideas for Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year you can carry out in your early years settings! 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. Lunar New Year Find, Colour and Count. Chinese New Year Phonics. Chinese New Year Phase 2 Say it, Write It, Join It. Chinese Zodiac Missing Sounds Chinese New Year Writing Prompts. The Scroll or swipe down to find out more about Chinese and Lunar New Year. Use this Chinese New Year PowerPoint to teach EYFS children all about Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated. It explains the different Chinese New Year activities in a clear and simple way, making it perfect for younger children. This EYFS Reception Topic Planning Web: Chinese New Year could also be useful when you are planning your topic. The PowerPoint explains the preparations for This means that the date of Chinese New Year is different every year. The Lunar New Year occurs every year sometime around late January or early February. In 2025, it will happen on the 29th of January. The Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year, is a date not to be missed in the Chinese calendar! An EYFS collection of planning documents and ideas that focus on Chinese New Year. Within this category you can browse for adult led planning as well as find inspiration for a Chinese New Year topic and continuous provision ideas. You could make Chinese New Year cards - give the children little mini clip-art pics of the different animals in the calendar to stick on red card, then add black felt tips and examples of Chinese scripts to your mark-making area for the children to write in their cards. Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is a vibrant and festive holiday that celebrates the beginning of a new year according to the lunar calendar. Celebrating Chinese New Year in an early years setting can be a wonderful opportunity to introduce children to different cultures and traditions. Invite children to pick a card and then try to find a card that rhymes. Challenge children to create rhyming pairs showing animals from the Chinese New Year story. This EYFS Chinese New Year Phonics Activities Resource Pack contains lots of different phase 2 and 3 activities for children to explore. For example, a word-building game, some What is Chinese New Year? Unlike the UK which uses the Gregorian calendar and celebrates the start of the new year as January 1st, Chinese New Year follows the lunar calendar and so it changes every year. But it's always between January 21st and February 21st, coinciding with the first new moon – the darkest day. 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. A popular choice of story about Chinese New Year for EYFS and KS1 is I Love Chinese New Year by Eva Wong Nava and Li Xin, which provides an introduction to Chinese New Year traditions for one girl and her family -including the special food, decorations and exciting dragon dance.
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