Last year we focused on the Chinese New Year.....we made kitchen Gods who overlooked us in the house and we then smeared their mouths with jam and burned them on a fire so they would go upwards and tell sweet things about us!
We went to the celebrations and dragon dances at West Edmonton Mall, we gave the children red envelopes filled with money.....we made dragon puppets, we made fortune cookies.......we went out for a chinese lunch....we read stories and made collages.....we coloured flags and looked at maps.......we learned to use chopsticks WELL......practicing with jelly beans :)
We also went to the T & T Asian grocery store at WEM and bought all kinds of things to try....saw the HUGE fish and bought traditional Chinese New Year gifts.....
It was a really fun project!
