Chinese New Year Archives

There are so many way to create and explore snakes. I wanted to share with you some of the snakes we have made to celebrate Chinese New Year and several from other wonderful blogs. Not all the post in this round up at related to Chinese New Year, but they are all snake activities.Plastic Easter Egg Snake

JDaniel has a great time threading ribbon through some old plastic Easter eggs. Many had holes in the top and the bottom already. (They came that way. I’m not sure why.) I made those holes large enough for JDaniel to thread ribbon through. Other needed me to create a whole in them.

Paper Shape Snake

JDaniel created a wonderful shape snake out of parallelograms, squares, and triangles ( I know I shared this in the Chinese New Year post yesterday, but he really did a great job on it.)

Diamond Back Snake

3 Dinosaurs has a wonderful diamond back snake that would be fun to make for Chinese New Year.Jello Snake Activity

Many children think snakes are slimy. This wonderful activity from The Imagination Tree is called Snakes in Slime. Kids love playing in this snakes in jelly snake activity will confirm this belief. They will have such a great time playing in the slimy goo.Decorated Play Dough Snakes

Cathy James of The Nurture Store shared these wonderful Chinese New Year playdough snakes on The Baby Centre.Noodle and Paper Snake

This wonderful snake came from a post on Wildlife Fun 4 Kids called Eight Great Ways to Appreciate Snakes.

Snake and Other Zodiac Yoga Poses

Carrots are Orange has a wonderful post on yoga poses called Culture and Yoga Poses for Kids. It would be such fun to crawl like a snake or pose like a fire-breathing dragon.Marnie also wrote a post for the Kids Activities Blog called {Color &Easy} Chinese New Year Activity for Kids that features a ribbon snake activity. I think it would be as much fun to make the activity as it would be to play with it.

No Time for Flashcards featured this cool snake craft in a post called Snake Craft- Chinese New Year. You will find more fun crafts for kids on my Crafts for Kids board on Pinterest.

We had the best time reading Long-Long’s New Year and doing Chinese New Year activities! JDaniel really enjoys the book Long-Long’s New Year. It is about a very special little boy that seeks to make his family’s celebration. Despite having a coin that he is yearning to spend on himself while shopping with his grandfather, he waits and gets special things for his family. The illustrations in this book are lovely and so is its message.

Chinese New Year Activities and Crafts

Chop Stick Transfer Buffet

While browsing through Living Montessori Now’s weekly link-up, I noticed a wide variety of posts on transferring objects with chopsticks. Many had some kind of string or yarn.

JDaniel loves to use these chopsticks so, I created a chopstick transfer buffet for him. He was able to move packing peanuts, color straw segments, and yarn to create a delicious bowl full of fun.

Cupcake Liner Fortune Cookies

I found directions on how to make fortune cookies using cupcake liners on several sites online. Each used a wire down the middle to help bend and mold the fortune cookie. We didn’t have any wire at our house so, we used foil cupcake liners instead.

When I tried to take a picture of the steps we took to make the fortune cookies, the glare of the foil was terrible. I quickly grabbed some snowman liners to show you what we did.

We folded the cupcake liner inside out and then placed a staple in the center of the liner about one-half an inch in.

Then we turned the cupcake liner outside in and pushed in the center a little to make an indention. Finally, we staple the outside edges. We left openings at the top of the sides to slip the messages in.

Chinese Snake Shape Craft

JDaniel had the best time creating a snake from a box filled with triangles, parallelograms, and squares I had cut out for him. He started with the tail and worked his way up to the head. I loved watching him create and think through this craft.

Chinese Zodiac Animal Hunt

JDaniel has a wide variety of animals in his room. I printed out a Chinese Zodiac page for Activity Village and had him search his room for as many of them as he could find. He wasn’t able to find a tiger, a goat, or a rat. He really didn’t find a dragon either, but he pointed out that dinosaurs and dragons might be related. We decided the dinosaur could count as a dragon.

It was really fun to see him search through all his things to find the ones he did find. Each time he came across one it was like he was finding a hidden treasure.

Snake Snack

Crescent Roll Snake for Chinese New Year

We tried to follow a pattern for a snake pattern I found online, but it was really hard to cut the crescent rolls into the right shapes. I ended up trimming some of them with a knife after we cooked them to try and get close. Oval is not a tangram shape, but they really made great eyes for the snake.