Kids Water, Snack, and Self-Care Station Makes Life Easier for Everyone
Our Montessori-inspired kids water and snack station encourages my kids to stay hydrated and nourished with healthy self-serve options.
Pretend Play Food: Free Printable in English, Chinese, and Korean
Shopping, cooking, eating, learning: our laminated food flashcards are one of the most used Chinese and Korean learning toys in our home!
10 Easy Chinese Thanksgiving Activities You Can Do With Your Kids Today!
Celebrate Thanksgiving and learn Chinese with these fun, low-prep, hands-on activities and printable coloring book!
Chalk Eggs Glue Resist Literacy Activity for Kids! (VIDEO)
Black paper, glue, & chalk make the perfect combination for process art with a literacy surprise! Easy, hands-on fun for all ages at Easter and all year round!
Playdough Mooncakes – Mid-Autumn Festival Activity with Recipe!
We had so much fun making homemade playdough mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival! This is an easy and fun hands-on learning activity with recipe and tips included in this post!
Color Matching Popsicles – Educational Craft for Kids
Color matching popsicles are a fun way for kids to learn about colors! Here are DIY tips and Montessori-inspired advice for teaching colors!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Chinese and Korean) Story Stones Learning Activity
Story stones are a fun way to bring the Very Hungry Caterpillar book to life! Kids learn matching, sequencing, healthy versus unhealthy food, and more!
DIY Birthday Cards: Cupcake Sight Word Matching Activity!
Homemade birthday cupcake cards are a sweet gift! You can easily integrate sight word teaching with this fun birthday craft!
How to Make Rainbow Paper Fortune Cookies! (VIDEO)
Learn how to make paper fortune cookies and use them to practice reading "surprise" Chinese greetings! This activity would be fun for origami-lovers as well anybody who likes special messages!
Chinese Flashcards Sensory Bin for Kids
We're big fans of sensory bins in our home, and hidden Chinese flashcards are my secret to making them extra educational! This activity for children encourages fun with everyday fine motor skills (eg, scooping, pouring) while learning how to speak and read Chinese.
Learn to Read and Write Chinese Character 子 with Seeds (Music VIDEO)
A sensory activity that focuses on the Chinese character 子 (zǐ / seed)
Writing Chinese with Food
Sensory play + Chinese writing! Use dried pasta and beans to practice writing the characters 豆 (dòu / bean) and 面 (miàn / pasta).
Planting Chinese Food Names
To reinforce food vocabulary that we learned last week with the sticker and craft stick activities, I drew pictures of food on the concrete and wrote the character name beside it. My daughter had a blast pouring water while calling out each character!
Planting Food Stickers – Version 2
Remember the food sticker craft sticks from the last post? Here’s another interactive planting activity!
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Planting Food Stickers – Version 1
Planting fruit and vegetable stickers activity is a fun way to teach Chinese characters and learn about foods that grow from trees versus the ground.
Counting Watermelon Seeds
An educational spin to a classic summer craft: counting practice with watermelon seeds! Then my daughter used the watermelon slices for pretend play and ate lots of watermelon at her pretend picnic party!