A guide for using our resources

Children will identify Lunar New Year traditions.

Vocabulary: feast, traditions

Social Studies Focus: holidays and traditions

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• This charming picture book introduces children to a variety of Lunar New Year traditions. How many can they spot that are also in the mini book?

• Try one of the traditions from the mini book in the classroom. You might have oranges for snack, clean and sweep the room, and even color envelopes to make them red! You can put play money inside and hand them out to kids.

• D is for dragon! Together, hunt through the mini book for the letter d. Circle the ones you find. Is the d at the beginning, middle, or end of the word?

Skill: art, following directions

Materials: toilet paper tubes, red construction paper or red paint, red pompoms, red, yellow, and orange tissue, glue, tape

• For each dragon, cover a toilet paper tube with red construction paper (or paint it red and let dry).
• At one end of the tube, glue two red pom-poms for eyeballs. On top of those, glue two googly eyes. (If you like, you can glue two smaller pom-poms to the other end for “nostrils”—this step is optional.)
• Finally, tear red, orange, and yellow tissue paper into strips. Glue or tape them to the inside of the tube under the dragon’s “nose.”
• Kids can blow through the tube to make the dragon breathe fire!
  
  TIP: Have kids blow from a short distance rather than put their mouths right on the tube. The tissue will move more!