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Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year refers to the first day of the New Year according to the lunisolar calendar. Teach your KS2 students all about this festival with our fun-filled resources, ranging from activities and games to PowerPoints and crafts. Chinese New Year activities – Best KS1/KS2 resources for 2025 With the year of the snake due to be ushered in on 29th January 2025, here’s a selection of resources to help with teaching the history and traditions of the biggest event in the Chinese lunar calendar A fun set of activities to celebrate Chinese New Year with your KS1/ lower KS2 students. The resource includes: Colouring pages Write your name in Chinese activity Word search (with answers) 2 Colour by Number activities 2 Chinese New Year mystery pictures (with answers) It is a .pdf f This Chinese New Year KS2 activity pack comprises five hour-long lessons. The lessons start with an introduction to Chinese culture and traditions, linked to the New Year celebrations. The following English lesson looks at the different character traits of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, with the KS2 activities for Chinese New Year. This resource is divided into six key sections that build cultural understanding whilst developing essential literacy skills: Introduction to Chinese New Year: A clear, engaging passage that explores the festival's origins, legends, and key traditions, complete with targeted reading comprehension questions. This lovely set of differentiated Chinese New Year reading comprehensions for KS2 can be used to help your pupils develop their reading skills whilst expanding their understanding of Chinese New Year. You might also like to tell children about the different Lunar New Year celebrations that take place in countries across Asia, such as Singapore, Vietnam and South Korea. Each country will have 2 excellent ‘Chinese New Year’ activities. Age range: 7 - 11 years. Activity 1: A passage about Chinese New Year traditions and ‘9’ multiple choice questions. Activity 2: A 4-page booklet explaining 2 Chinese legends. The booklet describes Chinese New Year animals (each with its own character description). This year, Twinkl is giving away 20+ Chinese New Year printable worksheets, colouring pages, PowerPoints, crafts, decorations and more! Some of them feature Mandarin Chinese too. These are available to download for FREE from today until the 19th February 2021. 3. Comprehension questions worksheet 4. New Year similarities and differences worksheet 5. Chinese Zodiac PowerPoint 6. My Chinese Zodiac worksheet 7. Design a new Chinese Zodiac animal 8. Recounting Chinese New Year Celebrations If you have found these resources useful, please leave a friendly review. Thank you! This download contains the following four Chinese New Year activity ideas for kids: Dragon dancing . Combine art, dance and music to create dragon costumes and perform a dragon dance as a class. This whole-class craft, dance and music activity is a fantastic way to celebrate the Chinese New Year. This non-fiction comprehension pack provides pupils in years 5 and 6 with information about Chinese New Year (also known as Lunar New Year and the Spring Festival) exploring why and how it is celebrated. The pack includes a model text and comprehension questions to develop pupils’ skills of retrieval, inference, sequencing and vocabulary understanding and could be used as part of a whole Cross-Curricular Learning: Combines maths practice with cultural enrichment, making it an excellent resource for Chinese New Year activities. Engaging and Visual: Incorporates Chinese characters and their meanings, sparking curiosity while helping students develop problem-solving skills. This comprehension pack for pupils in years 3 and 4 retells the tale of 'The Great Race', a legend that explains how the names for the Chinese Zodiac were chosen. This story is great to read during the celebrations of Chinese New Year (also known as Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival). The pack includes a model text and comprehension questions to develop pupils’ skills of retrieval 15 Chinese New Year Activities for Kids. Keep the Chinese tradition of cleaning the house before the New Year comes in sounds like a good excuse to get the whole family doing a bit of housework 😉; Read a Book. There are many great books about Chinese New Year and Chinese folk tales to be found. – See more at the bottom of this post A selection of Chinese New Year activities including: Chinese New Year sign A blossom tree template Chinese numbers to 10 China flag template A Chinese abacus known as a Suanpan A giant Chinese New Year decoration at Emquatier, Bangkok, Thailand February 2022 A giant Chinese New Year decoration at Emquatier, Bangkok, Thailand February 2023 A giant Chinese New Year decoration at Emquatier, Bangkok, Thailand February 2024 A pair of compasses, both made in China but one is much better than the other for getting your bearings! This teacher-made resource is perfect for supporting your planning. It can be used to help you deliver an engaging lesson on the topic of Lunar and Chinese New Year art. KS2 pupils will be challenged to use different recycled materials to create their very own Chinese dragon. Dragons are a traditional symbol of Lunar and Chinese New Year art. KS2 children can learn all about other symbols Tell me about this Chinese New Year code breaker worksheet. Practice maths skills including times tables and times table facts, multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 and also finding fractions of amounts with this fun Chinese New Year codebreaking activity. A primary school assembly framework for KS1, KS2 and P1 - P7 celebrating Lunar New (also known as Chinese New Year). Includes video, suggestions for songs, optional words for reflection and prayer. Chinese New Year. What is Chinese New Year? Chinese New Y ear is celebrated every year by millions of Chinese people and is the longest and most important holiday for a lot of Asian countries, such as China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. It has also become a very popular celebration
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