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. Discover hands-on, engaging activities that bring Chinese New Year to life in early years classrooms whilst supporting key EYFS learning objectives through sensory play, creative crafts and cultural exploration. 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. This colourful collection of Chinese and Lunar New Year Early Years activities and games is full of handy things to help you teach preschool children all about this celebration! Featuring craft activities, role-play masks, colouring and more! Summary: Chinese New Year marks the start of a new lunar year and falls in January/February 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 Read on for 9 suggestions for activities and crafts chosen to celebrate Chinese New Year. 1. Chinese Restaurant Pretend Play: Why not transform the home corner into a Chinese Restaurant and include chopsticks and play dough scented with ginger or soy sauce. Add noodles for messy play or to taste. This is a document to help teachers and early years practitioners with their Chinese New Years planning. It includes suggested activities grouped under the various areas of learning. It also contains links to useful resources on Early Learning HQ and other websites. Use this EYFS Topic Planning Web: Chinese New Year to plan lots of exciting Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year themed activities for toddlers from ages 2-3. Are you looking for an activity to develop your toddler's small motor movements while they make marks? If so, this activity is for you! 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. This blog collects some of Twinkl’s most popular planning resources, display packs and activities for early years settings in one convenient place to save you some time. It's time to start celebrating Lunar New Year! ? 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 An overview of planning for taught sessions and provision enhancements for Chinese New Year, covering the aspects of EYFS. Every January or February, when there is a new moon, lots of people all over the world celebrate Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year. Follow the legend of Chinese New Year and learn why people 2. Chinese New Year PDF Slideshow: This 28-page slideshow is a wonderful resource for introducing young children to Chinese New Year. Tailored for KS1 and EYFS students, it explains the festival’s preparations, traditions, and celebrations through simple, child-friendly language and engaging illustrations. Scroll or swipe down to find out more about Chinese and Lunar New Year. EYFS Ages 3-5 Creative Ways to Use Large Activity Trays: Chinese New Year Page 1 shows a jar of items associated with Chinese New Year. Children can make a list. Page 2 shows a dragon mask template for children to make. Page 3 shows a 2D lantern to make / decorate. Page 4 shows an Ox from the Chinese Zodiac and invites children to find out more about the other animals and the Rabbit for 2023. Chinese New Year Games. Chinese Dragon maths game is an ordering and sequencing numbers game based on the Chinese New Year dragon theme. It's suitable for 5-11 year olds. Play Chinese Dragon Game now. Enjoy the Chinese New Year celebrations with our jigsaw puzzles for 4-9 year olds. 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. This Chinese New Year EYFS planning resource includes a selection of Chinese New Year adult-led activities and ideas for enhancing continuous provision. These ideas are ideal for children aged 2 to 4. Chinese New Year activities for all seven Areas of Learning are included in this Chinese New Year EYFS planning resource. There is a page for each Area of Learning and also a page showing the
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