Get creative with this fantastic paper craft 3D Chinese New Year Monkey, simply cut and fold to create a paper monkey which is perfect for your classroom display, role play area or even as something lovely for your children to take home! Here's last year's paper cut, for Year of the Monkey, 2016. We used this colouring page as inspiration, if you want to have a go! Here's our Year of the Goat paper cut for 2015. We have a template for this design if you want to have a go! Our Year of the Horse paper cut from 2014. Our Year of the Snake paper cut from 2013 Celebrate Chinese culture with this Zodiac Monkey Paper Craft! Perfect for Chinese New Year or year-round crafting, this printable design is fun, creative, and educational. Assemble your own 3D monkey with vibrant colors and optional festive add-ons like bananas and spring festival decorations. This 3D Chinese New Year paper cutting craft is designed for children who can use scissors independently. For younger kids (kindergarten and under), adult supervision and adult assistance are needed. This is a simple paper cutting craft for the Lunar New Year. My students love it! Paper Cutting Project: Chinese character 春 = chūn = spring. The Snake is the 6th animal in the order of the Chinese zodiac, and every 12th year is named for this intelligent animal. In 2025, the new year starts on January 29. Here is the order of the animals in the Chinese zodiac: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. Turn up the fun at your Chinese New Year Celebrations with our easy crafts for kids and free printable Chinese New Year Printables. The Year of The Monkey - 1932 Students will cut lines and patterns into red card to create traditional Chinese New Year paper cuttings. Display on walls or windows, or optionally use red string or ribbon to hang from the ceiling. This resource includes four pre-made templates to choose from, as well as five blank templates with only the lines of symmetry included (one, two The combination of scissors cutting the snake and threading yarn through the holes along the snake’s body, as well as plastic beads, makes this Chinese New Year craft not only a fun and engaging activity for kids to celebrate the Lunar New Year but also a way for kids to work on their fine motor skills. Educational Tool: Use the large snake to complement an Asian study unit or teach about Chinese New Year traditions. It’s a fun way to make learning about other cultures and traditions more engaging. Choose the large template to create an eye-catching classroom display! Festive Celebrations: Are you hosting a Chinese New Year party? Set up a Chinese New Year Spiral Snake Craft Celebrate the Chinese New Year - Year of the Snake with this fun but creative snake craft! Simple to colour and cut, - High quality downloadable teaching resource from Teacher's Pet. Paper cutting is a traditional folk art in China, its birthplace over 1500 years ago. During festivals such as Chinese New Year, paper-cuts are used to decorate doors, walls, and windows in homes, and are presented as gifts to good friends and family. Chinese New Year paper cutting is an indispensable part of Chinese New Year decoration. Here is a guide for how to make your own 福 (fu) Chinese New Year paper cutting. See How to Decorate for Chinese New Year: The Top 7 Decorations. What You Need. Red paper — one square of flexible paper; Pencil; Stapler; Sharp scissors and/or craft knife Since it is still Chinese New Year, I made two quick Chinese New Year paper-cutting decorations with the ScanNCut machine. With the cutting machine, I can easily repeat the cutting and make more of them. I gave them away to my friends and family members so that they would have nice red paper decorations to symbolize prosperity for their homes, too. Browse 7,878 incredible Chinese Paper Cut vectors, icons, clipart graphics, and backgrounds for royalty-free download from the creative contributors at Vecteezy! Vecteezy logo Vecteezy logo Toggle filters Chinese New Year (also known as the Lunar New Year) marks the beginning of a new lunar calendar year and is celebrated with family gatherings, traditional foods, and vibrant cultural events. The Lantern Festival comes at the end of the celebrations. The Year of the Monkey. The monkey is the ninth animal in the Chinese Zodiac, and the new year (which starts on Feb. 8 in 2016) heralds the start of the year named for this quick-witted and clever, but often mischievous animal. Rooster paper-cut A simple Chinese paper-cut of a rooster (cockerel) with a lotus plant. This page gives full instructions on how to make this traditional art-work. Read more Yunnan regional style paper-cuts. Exhibit in the Yunnan Provincial Museum, Kunming, Yunnan, China. 2011. Image by Daderot available under a Creative Commons License Filed Under: Chinese New Year Craft Tagged With: Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year Craft, Craft, Lunar New Year, paper craft, 红包灯笼 « Year I Make It Happen 2014 My Little Pony – A Canterlot Wedding » The Chinese zodiac offers a wonderful opportunity to celebrate each year creatively—you can make crafts inspired by the zodiac sign of the year, such as rat-shaped ornaments, dragon masks, pig plushie or paper-cut horse, adding a festive and personalized touch to the celebrations!
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