We celebrated the Chinese New Year by making the children familiar with Chinese food and culture. The preschool children enjoyed cooking and tasting Chinese noodles using chop sticks.
Melian, whose child Andy attends our Eglantine Pre-School group kindly presented a slideshow to the Pre-School and After-School children about the origins of the Chinese New Year. She spoke to them about Chinese Astrology relating it to the year the children were born. She also provided prawn crackers and boiled dumplings which the children enjoyed for snack.
The children created dragon masks and danced the dragon dance to symbolise the Chinese New Year.
The children had the opportunity to make fortune cookies. We wrote fortunes on paper and put them inside the cookies.
Chinese lanterns have been used for thousands of years and are tradionally used to bring good luck. Our Pre-school and After-School children went to the garden to let go of the lanterns and make a wish.
