Year or the Snake Greeting Card Drawing Prompt
A cute and easy activity for Chinese New Year and the Year of the Snake! Download your Printable Greeting Card as part of a set of 12 Zodiac Animals and get the kids to draw their own Snake. Then have a look at the Chinese writing and pronounciation of “Happy New Year” and “xin nian kuai le” (pronounced shin nee-an kwai le)! A great little learning activity and a fun way to connect with friends and family.
The Year of the Snake and the beginning of Lunar New Year is on the 29th January 2025!
As these Greeting Cards are “blank” – each one will be unique! Draw your Year of the Snake design as detailed or as simple as you want!
Children can also take a look at the Characters that say Happy New Year in Chinese, as well as have a go at the pronunciation:
“xin nian kuai le” pronounced shin nee-an kwai le
Here is another lovely snake craft that you may enjoy!
To make your Year of the Snake Greeting Card you will need the following:
- Your simple snake prompt printable (or all 12!) enter $0 at check out
- Printer and paper
- Coloring pencils
- Scissors to out out the card shape (great for scissor cutting skills)
You can get the full set on gumroad (for just $1) or on Teacher’s Pay Teachers. Or simply get the Year of the Snake prompt on it’s own!
Once you have downloaded and printed your Year of the Snake greeting card drawing prompts, get the kids designing and drawing. They can make as many as they like! They can focus on only the Year of the Snake, or make all 12 Zodiac animals. Really up to you.
Once they have finished drawing their designs, cut out the outer edge of the cards, fold in half and send to loved ones!
A fun way to stay in touch with people you won’t get to see for a while this Chinese New Year!
Do check out our extensive list of Year of the Snake Crafts here:
We have more generic Chinese New Year Crafts here:
And finally – our list of Zodiac Animal Crafts (plus information on what year they occur in!):
