One of the most meaningful lessons you can do with your child after school is to find local events that support other cultures within your community. These hands on moments can be such a meaningful and memorable experience out of school. This past week we were so lucky to have our local art museum host a Chinese New Year Family Day.
We were welcomed with crafts for our children to make, handouts for our children to learn from, specific art pieces selected for our children to observe and most importantly local performers willing to share their Cultural heritage dances.
Taking time to teach our children about other cultures while they are young in such a valuable lesson. You will find that most members are really excited about sharing out their own culture and take such pride in it. Finding resources really can be easy if you keep your eyes and ears open to your community events.
For our specific event at the museum we were provided materials to learn how to write in Chinese and to create their own Chinese Lantern. We explored many pieces of Asian art which will be inspiring us for the next Kids Get Arty with Red Ted Art.
The next day a very close friend also invited us to her home for a play date. She planned traditional Chinese Dishes for the kids to try, a story and a few crafts. It's so much fun to learn about friends that their backgrounds. Take a look around you and find out where your friend's family is from originally, you might surprised how diverse they are.
Exploring other cultures can be as simple as finding Books, Crafts, Play time, Dress Up and Food that can transform you into any culture! Here are 10 Ways to Explore the World with your Kids . We encourage you to follow our Bilingual Babies and World Geography Board. It can make coming up with ideas so much easier, we're always searching for resources to teach our children about the world.
Last week it was so wonderful to be able to look at our very own After School Link Up and find tons of ideas for how to follow up learning about the Chinese New Year at Home. Here are some of our favorites. Thank you to all who shared! Don't forget to grab a button if you were featured! We can't wait to see what you're up to this week!
Printable Chinese New Year Book from Crafts N Things for Children
Snake Crafts from Toddle Fast
Montessori Inspired Chinese New Year Activities from Living Montessori Now
Chinese New Year Crafts for Kids from Pragmatic Mom
Chinese Tea Ceremony from Little Wonder Days
Felt Wontons and Fortune Cookies from Crafty Moms Share
Chinese New Year Fun at School From Pigtales and The Muddy Way
Additional Resources for Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year Printables from Enchanted Learning
Writing Chinese Symbols from China Family Adventure
Lunar New Year Craft for Kids from Kids Activities Blog
Books for Chinese New Year from Boy Mama Teacher
Chinese New Year Snake from No Time for Flashcards
Chinese New Year Crafts from Red Ted Art
10 Books About Chinese New Year from No Time for Flashcards
15 Recipes for Chinese New Year from Favorite Family Recipes
Chinese Drums from Crafts N Things for Children
Chinese New Year Crafts from Nurture Store
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Great Chinese New Year ideas and resources! Thanks so much for featuring my Chinese New Year Activities post! I pinned your post to my Kids' Chinese New Year Activities at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/kids-chinese-new-year-activities/
ReplyDeleteGreat resources, as always. I've linked up our game of the month since it is a fun way to get some geography learning in after school and it's one of my son's favorite games.
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ReplyDeleteThanks so much for including me! Unfortunately, our middle school Chinese New Year party was scheduled for the same day as the Nemo blizzard so it got cancelled. Both attempts to reschedule did not work out so it looks like it will not happen this year unless we can persuade the Chinese language teacher to try again in March.
ReplyDeleteLove all of the ideas you shared with us . . . thank you! :)
ReplyDeleteYou always have great links. We had a lot of fun reading about Chinese New Year, and Anna school did crafts and other activities. I love that in our multi-national Silicon Valley schools do so much to teach kids about other cultures.
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