Celebrate Chinese New Year With Fun Crafts! (Week-long Classes)

Celebrate Chinese New Year With Fun Crafts! (Week-long Classes)

In these week-long classes, students will learn fun facts about Chinese New Year as well as words/sayings while making a craft daily for an entire week. Bonus: students will also learn to sing a song! (Note: single craft classes available.)

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50 minutes

per class

5x per week

over 1 week

9-14

year olds

1-5

learners per class

per learner - per class

How does a “Multi-Day” course work?

Meets multiple times at scheduled times

Live video chats, recorded and monitored for safety and quality

Discussions via classroom forum and private messages with the teacher

Great for engaging projects and interacting with diverse classmates from other states and countries

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Class Experience

How do Chinese people celebrate Chinese New Year? What do they eat? Why do they eat that? Why are firecrackers used to celebrate the new year? Why do adults give children red envelopes? Let's gather and talk!

We will make the following crafts:

Monday: Origami tiger red envelope
Tuesday: Firecrackers
Wednesday: Origami gold ingots
Thursday: Origami fish and dumplings
Friday: Origami tiger corner bookmark

No prior experience is necessary for these classes. I will demonstrate every step of...

I'm Chinese. I can speak from experience why we eat certain things, why I used to receive red envelopes but now have to be the one doing the giving of red envelopes - and so much more. Allow me to share with your learner how we celebrate Chinese New Year!

No origami paper? No problem. Printer/copy paper will work for these crafts, but not construction paper.

Please make sure your learner has all these items ready for class, especially precut items as specified below. For crafts that require the use of glue or marker, please also have a piece of paper to place under as to not mess up the table.

***** Monday: Origami tiger red envelope *****
3 - Sheets of orange printer/copy paper (please precut into 8.5 in. x 8.5 in. square sheets)
Pencil with eraser
Black Sharpie or black marker
Glue stick
Scissors
Small googly eyes (optional)

***** Tuesday: Paper firecrackers *****
2 - Sheets of red paper (standard printer/copy paper size)
Glue stick
Pencil
Ruler
Scissors
Scotch tape
Strings; gold, red or whatever color you have available

***** Wednesday: Gold ingots *****
Glue stick
3 - Sheets of gold or yellow origami paper (gold or yellow printer/copy paper workable);
please precut into 6 in. x 6 in. square sheets

***** Thursday: Origami fish and dumplings *****
3 - Sheets of red or yellow printer/copy paper (please precut into 5 in. x 5 in. square sheets)
Glue stick
Black Sharpie or black marker
Googly eyes (optional)
3 - Sheets of white printer/copy paper (please precut into 4 in. x 4 in. square sheets)

***** Friday: Origami tiger corner bookmark *****
Pencil with eraser
Black Sharpie or black marker
Glue stick
Googly eyes (optional)
3 - Sheets of orange origami paper (orange printer/copy paper workable);
please precut into 5 in. x 5 in. square sheets

Note: extra supplies are listed just in case your learner would like a start-over or has time to make more.

4 hours 10 minutes per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.

Teacher

Teacher Vaughn

Mom. Online teacher; ESL/TESOL certified. Lover of crafts, K-pop music, and languages!

53 total reviews

86 completed classes

About Me

Hello!

Thank you for stopping by. My students call me Teacher Vaughn. I have over fifteen years of experience working with children, starting with tutoring and working the after school program at a local elementary school while I attended...