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DIY Cardboard Car Ramp – Play While Learning Chinese Vehicle Names!

By Betty
May 7, 2019

My children had so much fun racing their toy cars on our DIY cardboard car ramp while learning Chinese words! Here's an overview of important vehicle vocabulary and how to make a cardboard car ramp!

Learn the Chinese Word 车/車 (Chē / Car) with Road Tape!

By Betty
March 20, 2018

Road tape is a fun way to incorporate learning into play! We used road tape to show the difference between 车 (chē) and 車 (chē) (simplified versus traditional Chinese)! The kids had a blast driving and "tracing" the toy vehicles on the Chinese characters!

Parking Lot Craft and Toy Car Matching Activity

By Betty
March 18, 2018

Grab your kid's toy vehicles for an interactive matching game! Our DIY parking lot craft is a fun, hands-on way to learn Chinese names for taxi, ambulance, garbage truck, fire engine, police car, and school bus!

Craft Stick Airplane Sight Word Matching Puzzle

By Betty
March 15, 2018

Craft sticks, clothespins, and mini Velcro coins are the ingredients to this hands-on, word-matching, transportation activity! This is a fun way to learn Chinese vocabulary related to airplanes!

Make-A-Sentence Post-It Note Train Literacy Activity!

By Betty
March 13, 2018

This interactive Chinese learning activity involves sentence building with a train made of index cards and Post-It notes!