The Chinese New Year is a wonderful event for inspiring creative lesson activities. You’ll also get a great opportunity to explore influences from another culture with your children.
This download contains the following four activity sheets:
Dragon dancing
Combine art, dance and music to create dragon costumes and perform a dragon dance as a class.
Great Wall of China
Take your class on a ‘wall walk’ around school, documenting all the walls you find, then build your own from your chosen materials.
Inventive China
Learn all about the Chinese invention of kites and make your own from plastic bags and BBQ skewers.
Animals of China
Research giant pandas and create fact files about these splendid creatures.
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