How Do You Prepare For The Chinese New Year Festival?
Chinese New Year begins in the Springtime or Harvest time, according to the Chinese lunar calendar. According to the Western calendar, this is between January and February. Light of Lights Festival or Lantern Festival, Lion dances and Dragon dances along with parades are part of the 15-day celebration. When preparing students for the Chinese New Year study we began by creating parts of the celebration. Lanterns, dragon head and tail, banners and firecrackers, horns and lions’ heads all made by the students. On the first day we copied large fish onto the white paper rolls by using an overhead projector with white paper taped on the wall and a book with the picture in it. Then tracing the picture to the white paper and cutting out the shape. Colors, paint, markers and trims were all used to decorate the fish lantern. Two fish shapes made one lantern. Stuffed with paper towels, tissue, newspaper etc. the fish were glued together to form one lantern shape on three sides and then a rod was
