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Free Chinese New Year Printables & Activities for Kids
9 min
January 27, 2021
Looking for some activities to entertain or teach your kids about this coming Chinese New Year? Check out our Chinese New Year resources here. They are perfect for the classroom and at home!
Chinese New Year is a global celebration that is celebrated by not only people in China but also Chinese people living all over the world. With its fascinating traditions and stories of the festivities, Twinkl has created a wide range of Chinese New Year resources and we would love to share them with you.
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.
We have categorised them for you by activity packs, crafts, decorations, colouring pages, worksheets and PowerPoints.
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Chinese New Year Activity Packs
Chinese New Year Story Pack for ESL Teachers
This pack is a whole lesson ready to go. Starting with a lead-in activity, looking at the story pictures associated with Chinese New Year and eliciting information. In the pack, you will find the vocabulary flashcards, the story ordering cards, a song to sing (backing track included) and a craft activity and more.
Chinese New Year Free Resource Pack - English/Mandarin Chinese
This pack includes Chinese New Year reading comprehension worksheets, paper model crafts, Display Posters with the Chinese zodiac years, Chinese New Year word mat in English, Mandarin and Pinyin
Chinese New Year' Rhyming Poem
This pack includes beautiful posters of this 'Chinese New Year' poem, a 'Rhyme and Rhythm' investigation activity sheet, a PowerPoint of the poem to aid learning and group recital for performance, a 'Poetry Detective' activity for both KS1 and KS2 which highlights the key features of the poem.
KS1 Dance: Year of the Ox - Chinese New Year: Celebrations
This motivating resource has been designed to inspire your children to learn about traditions in other cultures, and to encourage them to have a go at learning moves similar to the Chinese New Year dragon dance and the Chinese lion dance.
Chinese New Year Crafts and Display Posters
Crafts
Chinese New Year Money Wallet Envelope Template
It's traditional during the Chinese New Year to give away little red envelopes with money inside. Why not use these lovely templates to make your own red envelopes, and use them for counting and money recognition practice?
Zodiac Race Ordering to 12 Paper Chain Chinese Dragon
This fantastic zodiac race paper chain dragon is the perfect craft activity to celebrate Chinese New Year! Children will have the opportunity to put the numbers on the chain links in order while recalling the story of Chinese New Year.
3D Chinese New Year Dragon Fortune Paper Craft
It's easy to make and comes with a visual step by step guide. This resource is great to use during your Chinese New Year lessons and your children will love making these dragons.
3D Chinese New Year Fortune Cat Paper Craft Activity
The lucky fortune cat is iconic in Chinese culture. This 3D paper craft activity is perfect for your children to make their own lucky cat for Chinese New Year. It simply needs folding and sticking together and is a fun activity for your children to do.
How to Make a Paper Lantern - Craft Instruction Sheets
This paper lantern craft gives you the chance to create traditional paper lanterns with your children at home or in the classroom. Just ask your children to follow the simple step-by-step instructions on how to complete the paper lanterns
2D Shape Chinese Lanterns Cutting Skills Worksheet
A fun maths activity to encourage learning about 2D shapes as well as fine motor skills. Challenge the children to cut out the lantern shapes and match them to the correct one on the sheet to create a lovely line of 2D shape lanterns.
Display Posters
Chinese New Year Zodiac Animals & Characteristics Posters
This set of 12 posters has lovely illustrations of the Chinese New Year animals that you can decorate your classroom with. Each poster has traits and characteristics of each animal relating to Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year of the Ox Display Poster
This fantastic poster features information on the year of the ox, including characteristics of people born in that year, lucky colours, directions and numbers, the Chinese symbol for 'ox' and the years the ox will fall on!
Chinese New Year Display Banner
These banners feature our own hand-drawn illustrations with Chinese dragons, lanterns and colourful artwork. They print on 3x A4 sheets that you can easily put together to brighten up your classroom or your house to celebrate Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year Colouring Pages
Chinese New Year Zodiac Colouring Sheets
This handy set of colouring sheets gives your children the opportunity to practise their colouring and fine motor skills, as well as giving them something lovely to put up on display in the classroom or at home.
Chinese New Year Words Colouring Sheets
This lovely set of colouring sheets features a selection of different images all related to Chinese New Year. Great for a variety of activities, you can use them to reinforce fine motor skills or just for fun!
Chinese New Year Colouring Activity
This handy set of colouring sheets gives your children the opportunity to practise their colouring and fine motor skills. The children can identify which items relate to the Chinese New Year.
Maths Chinese New Year: Lantern Equivalent Fractions Colouring Worksheet
This can also be used to celebrate Chinese New Year, a lovely colour by calculation pictures are great for practising equivalent fractions. Children work out the answers and then follow a code to colour in the picture.
Chinese New Year Worksheets
Chinese New Year Counting Sheet
Great for reinforcing counting skills and number formation, this worksheet features a variety of images themed to Chinese New Year. Simply count up the images on each row and write the number in the circle.
Chinese New Year Addition Worksheet
Use this Chinese New Year addition worksheet to help teach children how to add numbers. Initially, children can count two groups of pictures and then find the total. They can use the images to double-check their answers.
Chinese New Year Reading Comprehension Activities
These reading comprehension activity sheets will help your children to understand all about Chinese New Year like when, where, how and why it is celebrated. There is a selection of comprehension questions for your class to answer at the end of the resource to see how much they have understood of the text they have read.
Chinese New Year Code Breaker Addition within 30 Maths Activity
Use this cryptic Chinese New Year addition puzzle in your themed maths lessons. Work out each addition sum to unlock the code and read the secret Chinese New Year message.
Chinese New Year PowerPoints
All About Chinese New Year PowerPoint
This PowerPoint is perfect for teaching your entire class all about Chinese New Year. It features handy information and interesting facts on China, what the country is like, and what happens during the different days of Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year Celebration - English/Traditional Chinese
This PowerPoint will show you the traditional way of celebrating Chinese New Year. It features some amazing photos of the key customs that how people celebrate. Your children will love learning about Chinese New Year and seeing interesting pictures from traditional Chinese New Year celebrations.
We hope you all enjoy our great selection of Chinese New Year printables and activities. Twinkl members can access more Chinese New Year resources by typing “Chinese New Year” in our search box at Twinkl Homepage.
Xin Nian Kuai Le
Gong Hei Fat Choy
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Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!
Sy Atchana
Content Strategy Team Leader
Sy Atchana (ทราย อัจนา) is a Content Strategy Team Leader at Twinkl. She’s got her Bachelor’s degree in Education from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) and Master’s degree in Tourism from Sheffield Hallam University. She spent 3 years teaching secondary school and international university students in Thailand before moving to England. Sy enjoys researching and looking for new ideas and education trends that can inspire parents and teachers in teaching English. She mainly writes her blogs in Thai to give Thai users tips on how to use Twinkl resources and update education trends from England and around the world to her home country.
