Rainstick Sensory Bottles – A Musical Activity for Kids! (VIDEO)
Rainstick sensory bottles are a wonderful auditory, visual, and tactile learning experience for kids! They are easy and fun for kids to make on their own!
Who Likes Rain? Book Review & Bottle Cap Raindrops Craft! (VIDEO)
谁喜欢雨？(Who Likes Rain?) is a book about rain's playful sounds! A matching activity with recycled bottle cap raindrops is a fun way to review Chinese words!
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Craft Stick Puzzles and Lyrics in Chinese!
小星星 (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) craft stick puzzles are one of my daughter's favorite activities! Tips on how to DIY plus printable lyrics in Chinese!
Autumn Leaf Painting & Chinese Literacy
This activity is the perfect combination of nature, art, recess, and Chinese learning. We collected leaves from the park, discussed Autumn in Chinese, and traced the leaves with paint around important Chinese characters.
It’s Raining Paint!
Are you ready for the most fun way to learn about 雨 (yǔ / rain)? Drip painting perfectly brings the 雨 pictograph to life - a cloud with drops of rain falling from it.
Easy Craft Stick Rainbow Puzzle
Does your child know that there are several Chinese idioms for colorful? Here's an easy craft stick rainbow puzzle that reinforces the idiom 五颜六色 (wǔ yán liù sè / colorful).
Forming Chinese Nature Words with Pipe Cleaners – Hands-On Chinese Fun!
This pipe cleaner and crayon activity is a fun way to visualize 木 (mù / wood) and 树 (shù / tree) Chinese characters while understanding their true meaning.
Sun & Moon Paper Roll Paint Stamp – Teach Kids Chinese Characters 日 and 月
This recycled paper roll paint stamp activity is a fun and easy way for kids to create sun and moon shapes while learning the words 日 (rì / sun) and 月 (yuè / moon).
Teach Kids Chinese: Create and Decorate 花 with Flowers and Grass
Teach kids the beauty of Chinese characters with nature. We had fun decorating the Chinese character 花 with flowers and grass. Free printable block character in this post.
Learning Yin-Yang with Weather Stickers
YIN-YANG: 阴 (cloudy) and 阳 (light, sunny), two opposing yet interdependent forces of nature. We used weather stickers to introduce this concept.
Q-Tip Chinese Character Painting
We had fun reinforcing the Chinese character 滴 (dī / drip, drop) with q-tip painting. Putting the characters into context is the best way to learn!
Learning About 雨滴 with Raindrop Stickers
Stickers have been daughter’s #1 favorite activity of all time. If she ruled the world, there would be random stickers stuck everywhere! Today, we gave stickers a purpose and honed in those fine-motor skills to learn about 雨滴 (yǔdī / raindrops).… Read more >>
Paper Rainbow
Simple paper craft to learn about 彩虹 (cǎihóng/rainbow) and 颜色 (yánsè, colors)!… Read more >>