When I think of Chinese New Year in Singapore I think of red and gold plaques with animals and/or Chinese symbols for wealth, health, good luck and happiness stuck to shop windows or hanging from the ceilings - if not the plaques then those gigantic paper pineapples!
Today we made some plaques of our own - an activity that combined writing and threading skills.
I downloaded images of Chinese symbols for happiness and laminated them. I gave each child a symbol, tracing paper and a black marker pen (Dooey chose green!) and let them trace the symbol. Later we mounted the symbols onto red card and added some gold thread, which Wugs threaded.
What we used:
Chinese symbol (laminated)
Tracing paper (optional, the child could copy)
Glue
Red card
Gold thread
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