Chinese New Year Get Crafty – A Mini Kids Craft Round Up for You!

A quick, cheeky “extra” Round Up for you – Chinese New Year Crafts for Kids! (Yes yes, I know I say I do them monthly… but sometimes you have to just change the dates around a little, so everyone can make something!!). It is a shorter get crafty than usual, but hopefully full of inspiration.
Chinese New Year is the most important festival in China – a literal translation is that it is the Spring Festival and the start of a new Zodiac year. Houses are cleaned out for a fresh start and entrances to the home decorated with red decorations that signify ”good fortune” or “happiness”, “wealth”, and “longevity”. As general guide, Chinese New Year crafts are all about the auspicious colour Red, the colour of wealth Gold and Dragons – plus the 12 animals of the Zodiac. 2012 is the year of the Dragon.. so let’s see what we have!
I featured this Dragon many moons ago, when I first started the round ups on Red Ted Art. I thought it was lovely then and think it is lovely now! So am sharing it with you again. Anything made from Egg Cartons is brilliant. Just a “to hand” house hold item. Add a little paint and look what you get. This one is from Activity Village. Love.
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Or… step it up a notch and make a Puppet out of your egg carton dragon as per Family Fun! Simply gorgeous. Step by step guide and photos will help you along the way!
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Nothing quite like a simple Chinese Fan! I thought the “materials needed” section make this sound terribly complicated.. I am sure you can make equally pretty fans with less “things”…. e.g. use a gold pen instead of stamps or cut out gold paper. The ideas is from Craft Kaboose.
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Make your own drum to ward off the evil spirits – this one is made from an old CD (so you get a nice bit of noise) and beads. So easy and fun! From St Louise Public Library Parents (go the library!!).
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Oh my. I am getting Cardboard Tube envy, as the self crowned Cardboard Tube Queen, I wish I had thought of this fabulous dragon puppet. I LOVE IT! Learning We Like came up with the idea. So cute!
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Lightly Enchanted sure enchanted me, when they made these adorable Goldfish out of my favourite Cardboard Tubes! I think they look ADORABLE and I can just imagine these fluttering in the breeze. They are fabulous.
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Start your children on their first origami animal with these adorable little cute goldfish. I always mean to try out more origami. These would look great as a mobile. And if you fancy some “fancy origami” paper and don’t have any, check out my free printables page with links to designs to print off at home! Crafty Crafted has a step by step guide!
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And another craft that makes my mummy heart melt… look at this adorable dragon’s body is made up of the children’s handprints. How cute is that. Certainly a new one for the “hand craft drawer”. Baabaabeep and her wonderful children enchant us!
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I remember making these as a child for “Carnival Day” (February). They are really easy to make and fun. And look great if you make lots to hang up together. Show Me gives you step by step instructions. There is also a Cardboard Tube version of these in my Loo Roll ebook. Come check it out!
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Ok.. not a “traditional” Chinese craft as such, but I just couldn’t resist - don’t these lanterns made from “take out boxes” simply look fabulous? The idea is from Make Handmade. I love it!!
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And from the AllRecipes website.. a recipe sharing fortune cookies with you. I have never made these before, but really do want to give them a go. Maybe there is time to make them for Red Ted’s nursery… mmmh. Yes, I think I will!
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Have a VERY HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR and do try out some crafts!






















Ohh I will have a go at the fortune cookies with the kids, they look fab!
Me too!!!
I was looking at the fortune cookies too. They look great fun – if a little tricky! x
Great choices, such appetising fun stuff! And also do-able… just let me at those yummy colours…
Hooray!
We love Chinese new year! I have a fun poem/song for Chinese New Year to post this week. We\’ll have to try out one of these crafts to go with it!
Oooh sounds lovely to have a song to go with the Chinese New Year! Have fun too!
We\’re doing chinese new year on Friday in storytime at school. Making a dragon with crepe paper, and colouring in chinese paper money to put in red envelopes. Have some lovely books to read of course too!
Sounds perfect! Would love to hear what books you have?
Love Chinese New Year. It\’s so close to Christmas and New Year this time round that it feels like one long feasting event!!
Oooh, I like how simple the drums are…we made spin drums for New Years and they were a bit more complicated.
Thanks for sharing all the fun ideas
awesome ideas shared. We didn\’t get to it this year but I am saving these for next year!
Pinning this!
Thanks for sharing on the Sunday Showcase – hope to see you this week.
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Thanks for liking my son\’s cardboard tube dragon puppet
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