If you're looking for a set of crafting activities to cover the full 15 days of celebration and traditions silkysteps own DOWNLOADABLE
Chinese New Year craft eBook has individual titles that can help.
For messy play introduce traditional colours of red, black and gold paint, glitter and other mixed media.
Explore the elements of earth, water, fire, metal in nature areas and add flower blossom to the surface of water play, chopsticks, forks and messaged pebbles to sand ..
A list of Chinese new year storybook suggestions can be found here -
CNY stories and on amazon find a range of resources to support play and learning:
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