Chinese New Year Bundle 1

Chinese New Year Bundle 1

This package offers educators a comprehensive resource designed to immerse children in the culture, traditions, and festivities of Chinese New Year. Primarily developed for Kindergarten through to Grade 3 classrooms, the bundle comprises of six sets of interactive games and arts and crafts activities.

Featured Activities:

• 'Feed the Lion': This activity promotes colour recognition, sorting, fine-motor coordination. In this game, children delight in matching different coloured objects to their corresponding colours on a playful lion figure.
• Bao (steamed bun) Game: An interactive way for children to learn and read Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC) words through vibrantly colored picture cards.
• 'Chinese Lion Teeth Brushing': A perfect method for enhancing sound recall and letter recognition - ideal for students starting their journey into phonics learning or transitioning into Phase 2 of the British curriculum.
• Outdoor ‘Lily Pad and Lotus’ Game: Specifically designed to engage gross motor skills while bolstering sound or letter recognition by holding classes outdoors.
• Pig Pen Math: A practical exercise using adorable pig figures on play mats depicting numeracy concepts such as addition or subtraction up to a range of 20 - underscoring basic equation understanding in a tactile manner.
• Paper Fans Craft: Kids can fully immerse themselves in Asian culture by creating vibrant paper fans with provided templates themed around Chinese New Year celebrations.

Beyond deep exposure to Chinese traditions, this bundle enhances key learning areas including phoneme identification/recall; color sorting; number counting skills; simple arithmetic operations besides promoting hand-eye coordination abilities as well fine motoring skills. The various activities can be incorporated in diverse classroom programs like storytelling sessions, art and craft, role-play corners or simply as classroom decoration. This resource makes learning about Chinese New Year enjoyable and memorable.

Digital Format:

The package comes in a convenient digital PDF format, facilitating easy duplication to suit different lesson plans and class sizes - making it an invaluable addition to your educational resources collection.

About this product

This product contains a bundle of 6 different sets of games and arts and crafts. The sets enclosed are as follows

- Feed the lion game

Feed the lion game is a play based color sorting activity that is simple to play and is engaging and fun. Feed the lion color matching activity that is perfect for your preschool, pre-k, or pre-kinders or playgroup for the Chinese New Year theme. Children can practice color identification and sorting as they slot the different color objects into the lion’s mouth. This activity is also great for practicing fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination. This set contains 11 colors.

- The Bao CVC game

The Boa (steam bun) game is a fun play based game to help children read and learn CVC words. This game has been tried and tested with children and help children learn to read in a hands-on and engaging way. This game is the perfect game for children to develop their letter-sound relationship. Great for literacy centers with a quick check sheet to help check the answers. Easy to play and with multiple CVC picture cards in vibrant colors. This set contains 35 CVC colored picture cards.

- Chinese lion teeth brushing game

Chinese lion teeth brushing game is a fun play based game to help young children recognize and recall sounds. This game can be played to help review letters and sounds. This is a great activity for children who are Phonics beginners learning single sounds or phase 2 in the British curriculum. This set contains only lowercase letters.

- Lily pad and lotus game

The Lily pad and lotus float game is a great way for children to learn letter or sound recognition through a fun gross motor skills activity. This game has been tried and tested on children with great success. This game is simple, fun and engaging and is a great outdoor activity for sunny days.

- Pigpen Math game

The Pig Pen is a play based number 0-20 addition and subtraction game that helps children understand simple number equation. Using cute pigs, children add or remove pigs from the pig-pens on the play mats depending on the number equation shown on the hay bales. For lower ability children there are a simple addition and subtraction equations that = 0

- Chinese New Year 2019 paper fan crafts

Chinese New Year 2019 paper fans are a great way to instill Chinese culture with arts and crafts. This set contains paper fan templates that you print out to create your very own folding Chinese fan. This is a great activity to do with children ages 5 and up. This set contains 5 different fan templates.