Year of the Dog Art Lessons for Chinese New Year
This Fri sixteen February marks the starting time of the Year of the Dog! Lunar New Yr is the virtually important celebration in many East Asian countries. Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese and Vietnamese people gather with their families and friends to welcome the new year's day with food and festivities. These colourful celebrations are so neat to share with your students, helping abound their cultural sensation and understanding. Here are some seriously "woof-tastic" Lunar New year activities and teaching resources you can use with your students to welcome in the Year of the Dog 2018!
Lunar New year PowerPoint
Lunar New year's day craft activities are fun, but to turn them into meaningful learning experiences y'all need to link them to new student cognition and understanding!
This Lunar New Year PowerPoint presentation contains 21 slides with two whole form and two small group or individual activities. The presentation identifies a variety of the countries and cultures that celebrate the Lunar New Year, equally well equally some of the traditions, symbols and customs of the celebrations.
The Animals of the Zodiac Story & Activeness Cards
Have y'all ever wondered how each of the years on the lunar calendar became named after an fauna?
In that location are many stories telling how the animals of the zodiac calendar came to be. Naturally, they vary slightly from civilisation to culture. Teaching through story-telling is WONDERFUL and so we decided to create a new Lunar New year pedagogy resource that tells one of the stories of the zodiac animals. Simply, even better than simply sharing a story, this resources comes with a set of activity cards too!
Year of the Dog String Puppet Activity
2018 is the Year of the Dog. Connect your students' learning well-nigh the Zodiac Animals to another aspect of East Asian culture with this super fun arts and crafts activity. Use this template to brand a paddle controlled Year of the Dog String Puppet!
- Download the decorated Yr of the Domestic dog String Puppet Template
- Download the Puppy Canis familiaris String Puppet Template
This is a fun action that can exist used across most yr levels (lower years students may need assist with the split pins and taping the strings to the paddle pop stick). Puppetry is an important form of storytelling in many cultures. In Communist china, paddle controlled marionette puppets accept been used to pass down traditional stories for thousands of years!
Earlier making your cord puppet, you could evidence your students some video clips of Chinese marionette puppets. YouTube has a few that y'all might consider useful.
- For older students, this eleven infinitesimal episode of "Looking Communist china" (with English subtitles) documents the amazing Quanzhou Marionette Troupe. The intricacy of how these puppets are controlled is amazing to meet!
- Another video shows how a Chinese marionette puppet can be manipulated to fill up a small chalice with water. Around two minutes in, you can see both the puppeteer and the boob in action.
- While the sound is a picayune loud, this video is a expert introduction to Chinese String Puppets for lower years students too.
E Asian Dragon Art Activity
Dragons are an important role of much East Asian culture and mythology. A symbol of good luck, Dragon Dance Ceremonies are a common feature of Lunar New year's day celebrations. The dancing dragons, loud drums and firecrackers scare away any evil spirits that may still be hanging about, and welcome the new year with gusto!
Your students can create their own symbol of skillful luck in this fun East Asian Dragon Art Action using materials y'all'll find in your classroom.
Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese Zodiac Calendars
Did y'all know that zodiac calendars vary slightly across the different countries that celebrate Lunar New year?
With Lower Years students, you can utilise this set of Asian Zodiac Calendar Posters to challenge students to identify what is different between each. Centre and upper years students could so enquiry why the calendars differ, discovering differences in the zodiac stories.
- In Korea, the 8th lunar year is symbolised past the Sheep.
- In Vietnam, at that place is no Yr of the Rabbit, just instead the Year of the Cat.
Students can as well use the Lunar Zodiac Calendar Posters to identify the animate being year in which they were born and read which characteristic are sometimes associated with their lunar year of birth.
More Lunar New Yr Teaching Resource
If those five ideas haven't quite got your inner puppy canis familiaris jumping upward and downwards with glee, here are some of our other great Lunar New year's day teaching resources too:
Lunar New year celebrations may be born of East Asian cultures, however, they are celebrated past Asian communities all over the world. Talk to your students to discover out if they accept e'er attended Lunar New year celebrations in their area, or find out what's happening in your local community during the Lunar New Year festival too!
Happy New Year!
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