Chinese New Year Creativity

My take on the measuring noodles activity for Chinese New Year.

A lovely Chinese New Year dragon puppet with two paper plates and egg cups for eyes. The wide-open mouth full of teeth is fabulous.

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Another handprint dragon for Chinese New Year - this one uses a foot and two hands for the head, along with a snout made out of an egg carton cup.

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A paper-chain and cut-out-handprint dragon sculpture for Chinese New Year.

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A cool take on the egg-carton dragon for Chinese New Year; the whole box becomes the dragon's head.

The typical quick-and-easy paper lanterns and egg carton dragons for Chinese New Year.

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A new take on the usual paper lanterns for Chinese New Year: these have paper strips glued onto a central black cylinder.

Thumbprint lanterns on a newspaper city street for Chinese New Year. Wish we had a newspaper printed in Chinese!

Lion Dance digiscrap kit for Chinese New Year. Look at those great papers!

Step-by-step drawing instructions to make a dragon for Chinese New Year. This site also includes some cross-curricular theme ideas in math, history, science, and language arts.

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A sensory bin for Chinese New Year. Most of these would be hard to find locally, for us, but I can keep an eye out for next year!

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A messily-enthusiastic handprint painted dragon for Chinese New Year.

Lucky playdough for Chinese New Year - use Wilton's Red Red food color and knead in red and gold glitter.

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Fun felt food for Chinese New Year - we've made fortune cookies in the past; I'd love to do the little crab rangoons this year.

Elementary school art project to make an eye-popping symmetrical cut-paper dragon for Chinese New Year.

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Use chopsticks to pluck a yarn noodle from a bowl, then linking cubes to measure its length. A fun independent work for Chinese New Year.

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