"Lo Hei" or "Yusheng" is a traditional Chinese New Year meal for the Chinese in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. It consists of a raw fish salad, shredded vegetables and condiments with each ingredient symbolising some aspect of good fortune for the year ahead. The meal is served on a dish and is tossed in the air using chopsticks with the idea that the higher it is tossed the greater will be the group's fortune in the year ahead.
I thought it would be fun for the children to create a "Lo Hei" dish using various craft supplies I had around the house. Getting the children to cut up the "ingredients" is a fun way to strengthen their fine motor skills, especially if they are going through a phase of wanting to cut everything!
I gave my son a plastic plate, some glue, a paintbrush and a large plate of the "ingredients". He brushed the glue on the base of the plate and gradually added the "food", adding glue to different levels of the dish so it would hold together. The more glue that is added to this craft, the more realistic it looks. The inspiration for this idea came from CBeebies Mister Maker who has made some amazing food crafts and has a clever technique for gluing spaghetti that could be applied to noodles. Once his dish had dried, and the chopsticks added we could hang it up as a picture.
A fun extension to this activity would be to see if the children can toss the ingredients using chopsticks.
What we used:
String
Yellow wool
Red crepe paper
Orange foam paper
Green tissue paper and foam paper
Wooden chopsticks
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