Chinese New Year

• Chinese New Year (BestKidsBookSite.com) - crafts, ideas lists of books
• Chinese New Year (Chinapage.com) calendar, dragon, calligraphy, zodiac
• Chinese New Year - InfoPlease
  • Chinese Zodiac animals
  • Chinese New Year quiz online
• Chinese New Year (Kaboose) crafts, coloring book, and more
• Chinese New Year learn about the traditions of the holiday and the lantern festival. Includes traditional new year foods, decorations, and taboos
• Chinese New Year and general China crafts DLTK-kids.com/
• Countdown to the New Year - PBS - based on The Cinese Siamese Cat, Sagwa, by Amy Tan - coloring, games, stories
• Enchanted Learning - Arts and Crafts for Chinese New Year

Fun sites

• Chinese New Year-for Kids! www.china-family-adventure.com/chinesenew- year.html
• Chinese New Year Games & Activities www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/chinesenew- year/
• Chinese Zodiac for Kids www.chinesezodiac.info/
• What Is Chinese for Kids http://www.gigglepotz.com/china.htm
• Origami for Kids Folding Instructions -How to Make Origami for Kids www.origami-instructions.com/origami-forkids. html
• PBS Kids-Sagwa: Games: Tangrams http://pbskids.org/sagwa/games/tangrams/ index.html
• Tangrams-Make a Set http://tangrams.ca/inner/makeset.htm
• The Zodiac http://china.mrdonn.org/zodiac.html

Books

• Chinese New Year - read online at Bookflis (need SPL card #)
• Lon Po Po - read online at Bookflis (need SPL card #)
• Sam and the Lucky Money - read online at Bookflis (need SPL card #)

Lesson Plans

• Animals of the Chinese Zodiac - WebSiteMent
  • Lions, dragons and Nian: animals of the Chinese New Year
• Celebrate Chinese New Year - Horace Mann